Originally Posted by
Sharon A
Another good thing about Embroidery library is that they store your patterns you buy. I buy a lot from them also from oregonpatchworks but oregonpatchworks does not store them so if my computer gives out I would lose those patterns so I put them on drives to make sure I never lose them. They both have great specials.
If you know the orginal file name and the company you got the design for you can normally get another copy of the design;even when they've been archived. For this reason, I keep note on this. I have a folder called orders, that is in my organizer, then I have subfolders under that. I name them according to company, like orders_Viking and then I download the orginal design into that folder and then open the zipped folder (just double click it) and save it under a category like beach then again I have a folder with companies name and put all of its designs there. I was orginally taught to rename each design with co name and that can make for a long file name. The only time I make sub folders under the company folder here is when I have a collection that I want to stay together. Singles just go into the main folder. This way, the orginal file remains in the zipped file, which I do backup to CD, plus I have the file saved under a folder to show what it is for. You only need to backup the orders files because that is the orginal design. For oregonpatchworks, which I too love, my orders folder had the company name of orders_oregonpatch and then subfolders with each company that I got the design at; like Oma's, love that place, lots of ITH and they stitch out great. Its not that hard of a process if you keep it up. My worst part is that I'll be at work and download a design to desktop and save it to USB but don't always put it onto laptop right away so then its playing catchup. I'm doing that now. I have a 17in laptop that I'm getting all the files done plus I have netbook that I carry sometimes due to my back. Once the laptop is done then I'll just save those files and resave them onto the netbook and it'll be caught up. My software allows me to make jpgs of each design and save it into the pictures folder and when I get that done, I'll print out thumbnails of each design and put them into a book so that I can just scan the book to find a design. The file name is attached to each picture so it'll be easy to find. Another reason why instead of renaming files to what they are, I just put them into folders to show what they are. If I see a design in my photo album then I just take that file name and do a search. I hate playing hide n seek with anything so this works for me because its easy to find.
Now I do like the fact with emblibrary keeps all of your orders in your history. This saves them time and me too.I don't have to email them with a request to redownload a file and wait for them to email me back and tell me it's ready to download again. Every company that I have dealt with has always made my designs available to me if I needed to redownload them a second time. This has only happened a few times since I keep my orders folder backed up. It's normally when I have saved a design to the USB and either never saved it to the orders folder or when I've saved it as the wrong file format or the design didn't want to open and I had to redownload it. I hope this helps someone, anyone. Julia's Needles is another one that has great sales and freebees and if you sign up for their emails they'll let you know when the sales are happening.