I need space in my hard drive so I transfered them to a stick memory(flash driver), and I can't open the files on that, tried in 4 pcs and it comes with an error:corrupt files!!! So, I'm starting to collect all those again! I've learned the lesson: don't ever delete your precious files from your pc!!! I need a hug!!!

Thank you everyone, for your kind comments and advices. I'm saving the CD and the memory stick to give to my older son to try to fix them, when I go to Japan. I'm still concerned about this laptop though, put more 'memory' but still does shutdown itself all the time. I wouldn't ever overcome loosing my own files and designs!!! I figured out that I can't store too many MB in one CD, that way I can read what is in it. Love&hugs,Yoriko

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by debleerl 23 Apr 2009

Laptops will shut down when they get over heated. Maybe that's the problem. I sure hope your son can figure out the problems for you.

Sorry to hear that Yoriko. I have a few files on my memory stick that say corrupt or error. I saved it to see if a computer tech can figure out how to get my designs from it at some point. I think the system restore is your best bet. You can back up to a certain date and have everything in there up to that date. A hug and flower for you, although you may be hugged out with all this love from Cuties.

Mona

This is really bad news. So sorry to hear that. If you bought them try contacting the sites where you got them just as the other Cuties suggested. Also remember to always make backup's. If you start collecting again try http://www.secretsof.com/embroide...
They have lots of beautiful designs.

A veeery bug hug for you.

Lamento o que te aconteceu, Yoriko, mas espero que com tantos e bons conselhos tenhas conseguido resolver o problema. Entretanto, aqui vai o meu abraço!

Ooouutshh... sooo sorry to hear this awful news. BIG (((((((( HUG ))))))))))) for You Yoriko! Please, tell us if we can help You in any way, when You are hunting designs....

Only just saw your message now Yoriko, This is a big hug from me to you. Hope some of the advice given has helped you sort it out.

Another hug Yvonne

hugs, hugs

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I'm truly sorry for this awful tragedy...computers are great, BUT they can also be my worst enemy..I'm backing my files as I write this to my external hard drive...I certainly hope there is something to be done to recooperate your files..my fingers are crossed...wishing and hoping for the best..somehow

Big Hug for you. The advice given earlier is really great. I am a computer tech and I always suggest that people have 2 backup files. I use a DVD and an external My Book drive. I would suggest a go back or restore. Most computers have this now. Best of luck

A big hug for you. So sorry to hear you lost your files. Hopefully some of the suggestions that have been made will work for you on restoring them.

Try looking in your Temp file. You may have a back-up copy stored in there. Right click on the start-menu, click explore, click owner, local settings, temp. Look in the folders you find there. I was doing a manual clean-up of my temp files and found that my Digitizer program backed up my whole catalog in the temp file.

Also, Marji is right about the RAM. You can give it a boost by increasing your virtual memory. Virtual Memory uses some of your ROM as RAM. Go to microsoft.com and search "Virtual Memory" for instructions on how to increase yours. It helped my computer run a lot faster. My IT friends suggested not increasing it to more than 3000.

Good Luck!

try restarting your computer with the stick memory in the USB already in. I had this happen with my external hard drive I kept it connected when I resarted my computer and it fixed the corrupted files on my hard drive thought I lost them but I ave them back.

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by marjialexa 17 Apr 2009

Hoo, boy, hope this works, that would be just great!!!! Fixed it all by itself? Sometimes these machines are way tooo intelligent, hee hee hee. But getting the designs back would be wonderful for Yoriko! M

by michele921 17 Apr 2009

yes I thought they were gone it was only 1 alpha for me but I lost all of it I was collecting I kept collecting the rest then I was getting reay for that virus and poof it wanted to fix the corrupted file I was like YAAA!!!! got the entire alpha back just glad I didn't stop collecting it

oh dear, hope the hugs we can give you,help a little bit.perhaps next time burn on CD or an targa box( externel hard disc.)hope there still is a way to open the files,perhaps a computershop can help. Anyway hugs are coming your way.And it's good you posted this as a warning for all of us.

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I'm so sorry to hear this news dear friend.
I keep warning people not to trust USB Sticks but you must have missed my warnings.
USB sticks are notorious for corrupting without warning or else the tops will break off rendering them useless.

They were created originally as temporary TRANSFER devices, but when the market embraced them the manufacturers got greedy and started making them with greater storage capacity to give people the false impression of security.

If your designs were 'purchased' you should be able to log into your account on most sites, access your 'Orders' and download your previous purchases. This may give you back some of your lost designs.

If they were freebies then I guess you know what that means, I'm sorry to say.

Sending you big hugs to help you through this.
hugs n roses, M

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I am sorry to hear that. I need to do something with my files in case of emergency ;D *2U

Oh Yoriko, how awful to loose those files. After loosing mine two years ago to a computer crash I did what The Cuties suggested and now my files are backed up in three places, CD, USB and floppies.
I hope with some of the ideas from the Cute family you are able to recover them.

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BIG HUGS AND CUDDLES TO YOU YORIKO.

I am so sorry to read that you have lost your files. Great ideas from Marj and a lot of the other cuties. I always download mine onto a USB 8gigabyte dongle. I have never had any trouble. I am surprised to read that some of these are corrupt.

I have rebooted my computer to a time before a loss of something and that has usually helped. I hope all the advice given will help solve your problems.

Love and blessings to you my friend Chris

(P.S. did you see I am going to be a grandmother again - this time our son and wife are expecting?)

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Ok, just to add, was reading down about why you moved them off. Your Embird and graphics are running slowly because you don't have enough RAM, not because there are too many things stored on your computer. Hopefully Ricky or Meganne will be here, and be able to explain this to you far better than I can, and how to delegate more RaM. You're doing a lot of digitizing now, and using so much memory that's why the computer's shutting down the program. But it's the RAM memory, not the storage-type memory that's causing the problem. Love you, Marji

Darn Yoriko, that is too bad, hard way to learn a lesson I agree, here is some love and hugs I know it won't bring the designs back but it might help a little....Hugs x0x0x0x friend...

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AAggghhhhh!!! Here's your hug, Yoriko!!! Poor baby! I'm so sorry this happened to you, did you try 'restoring' your computer to a point before you lost the designs. They wouldn't be in the recycle bin, because you didn't erase them, you cut them, there's a difference. You might be able to undo a cut and paste operation if you go back to that restore point.

Now, for everybody, DO NOT cut and paste, do not even "move" files. What you want to do is COPY. When you do that, if you check the copy and it is corrupt or something odd happens, you still have the original file in the original place. If you do the "move" process, you might have the original if the move doesn't take, it snaps back to the original sometimes. But if you cut, the only thing you have between your design & oblivion is the clipboard of your computer. Don't ever do it that way, please!!! Besides, the point of BACKUP is to have an extra copy, not to just move your original from one place to another. You should always always have 2 copies of everything you want to keep, designs included, but all your photos, etc.

Yoriko, again I'm so sorry, please try to restore that computer before you do too much more. Much love, many hugs, Marji

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by pennifold 17 Apr 2009

GREAT! GREAT! GREAT! ADVICE -

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS POSTING - THANKS MARJ.

LOVE AND HUGS TO YOU CHRIS

by workbecky 17 Apr 2009

Thanks for the advice. I often cut and paste and I would be devasted if I lost my designs.

a big hug from me Yoriko maybe you need a externe hard drive i dont have a problem with that gr sonja

Oh my goodness, yes that is bad thing to happen to a person, so sorry to hear that. I dread the day that happens. Pray it never does. !!! Here are lots of huggs for you hhhhhhhhhhhhhh. God bless. Marietta

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Marietta, thank you so much!!! Feel better now, with so much caring and support from my Cute family! God bless you too! Yoriko

So sorry to hear that, Yoriko! Happened to me once and now I always look if I can retrieve them from the stick or hard disk before I delete them from my laptop. BIG hug for you. Hope you can salvage some after all.

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Martine, thank you! I'm still afraid of losing everything. My laptop is getting worned out, I think. It turns off in the middle of my work, usually when I'm working with graphics and Embird, that is why I wanted to put my files somewhere else. Now I don't know where, thought flash memory and CD's were reliable. Love,Yoriko

I am very sorry to hear that*

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you, Michele!

Yo...I am feeling for YA:) I sure do hope that your son can retrieve EVERYTHING...We will keep our eyes open for ya in your hunts:)

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you so much, Barb! I'm feeling a lot better now. Started my hunting and I'm filling the folder very fast :) Love,Yoriko

Oh No Yoriko, I wouldn't know where too start, hope you can retrieve them

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

I'm still glad I didnt lose everything, specially my own designs. I'm a FSL hunter now :) Thank you, Sheryl!

Ohhhh noooo Yoriko this is bad news, those memory sticks are painful. I hpoe you find all the designs again.
Love and a big HUG
Louise

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

I hope so too. Thank you so much, Louise!!!

Oh Yoriko, so sorry to hear this. It makes you so mad after saving them for so long....I hope you can retrieve them somehow....

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you Michele...saving and organizing them...a lot of work! I hope so too.

Yoriko, sorry to hear that, i hope that you can recover them

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you Claude, I hope so too.

Yoriko, so sorry to hear about the loss of your files, did you try a systemrestore??? Neerv the less, I hope you can get m ost of them back. Here is a BIG HIG for you.

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Carla, thank you. I will try to have the CD read. Hopefully my son can help me, otherwise, I already started collecting again :) That hugs was so nice too!

I'm so sorry to hear this here is a hug...........and a flower

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you Colonies! Loved that hug!!!

BIG HUGS TO YOU YORIKO ! i'm so sorry for you :o(
hope you can restore them !!!

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

I hope so too, Sissi. Nice hugs!Thank you!!!

Oh Yoriko I have been there and done that with a memory stick I know have a Passport and they are good They hold so much . I do hope you are able to find some of your design

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

I don't trust memory stick anymore! What is Passport? Thank you, Sandra!

Maybe you can try a restore.
http://www.windows-software.de/ka...
this is a link to one of many sites (first google hit), where programms are offerd for file restoring.

Tip: do not "send" a folder to another place, first just "copy" it, try if this copy works and is complete, then delete original file.

Hard to believe, that your hard drive is completely full. Did you clean up and compressed sometimes?

And of course: HUG!

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Yes, I clean up and decompress regularly. I have a small laptop (80GB)with small memory (512):) I need a better computer to work with my graphics and designs, as it stops at the middle of the work many times, and start up scanning for files...it takes ages and it is really annoying. I'm afraid of losing everything eventually. Thank you, Eva...it was a nice hug!!!

by manami 17 Apr 2009

Oh, thank you for the link, I will check it out. Love,Yoriko

best to save to disc as well if using other means.and at least once a month or more.Feel so sad for your loss. ((((( hugs )))))

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you, Ezzemml!

If you didn't empty your recycle bin they will be in there!! How upsetting this is...Or maybe a system restore will help if you, try that on your computer...I have three different back ups thanks to all the advice by the cuties here..hugs to you and a flower to cheer you...

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you for the hug and flower! Love,Yoriko

Oh my Goodness Yoriko! I was really so sad to read your news!!! I back up ALL my designs on DVD / CD plus I have it on an External HD - I also save my designs in OTHER categories not just FSL - for example if the FSL design was a flower then that would also be saved in Flowers etc! I know it is extra work but that way I do have back ups every where!

Anyway my friend... If only you lived nearer to me I think that maybe my son could perhaps also assist you as he is also in the IT world! Hope that your son will be able to recover ALL your files!!

A Hug for you Below!!!
~S~

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Wow, that was a nice hug! Thank you, Sandie!

HUG,HUG,HUG..... I thought USB memory sticks were foolproof until I also had one go corruptalso. I was very lucky to be given an external hard-drive for Christmas so back up on this all the time.
Hugs & Sparkles from minicow

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

So did I...done with that. I have to get one external hard-drive! I hope it works for laptops too. Thank you Minicow!

by ewroland 17 Apr 2009

I have an external hard drive and I back up both my computers on that one drive.
It's also helpful to "move" designs from one computer to the other one.

by manami 17 Apr 2009

I think I will 'move' designs to my DH computer, his has lots of room! Good idea, Ewroland!

That is not good news. I am so sorry.
So tell me guys do you have to buy a 'recovery program' or can you dl one for free.

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

not good news... I'm glad I still have the
other folders and my designs as well. I don't think I would ever overcome losing my own designs! :)

GEEZ! I'm so sorry! I feel so badly for you. I would be so miserable if I lost my files. Here is a (((HUG))) for you! I hope you are able to re-collect most of your files!

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by kezza2sew 17 Apr 2009

waterlily, I often notice you and I are on here at same times often....
I chose this flower as avatar as my GD name is Lotus......do you love water lillies to?

by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you, waterlily! By the way, I always get confused with your avatars. :) Love,Yoriko

did you check the recycle bin or run the search engine to see if you can find any of them on the hard drive....? Sometimes you can recover, Hope you can find them.
Peggy

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Not in recycle bin...I just cut and pasted to the flash drive :(

by peggy 17 Apr 2009

So sorry. When I transfer I first copy and then check to see if the files on new medium before I delete. Yes, I learned to do this after I lost files with cut and paste.

by manami 17 Apr 2009

I learned that too - yesterday...

I really hate it and feel like crying when that happens. Its so hard to get them back as well so i do feel for you. here's a BIG hug from me ((((((((((((yoriko))))))))))))

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you for the hug, Ash!

I feel for you. I lost everything when my computer got a virus. Even my externals were hit.
Now after I back up, I unplug the external. And they are also on disk.

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Wow, that is even worse! I'm so sorry for you. Hugs, Yoriko

Oh no! I am so sorry! I lost some on a CD...wouldn't read the CD. There was a program out there a friend got & recovered them for me...at least most of them. Hopefully it would work on a flash drive?? Wonder what would cause that? I was told by the computer repairman to never just pull out a flash drive...go thru the steps to be sure it's ok to take it out & it's not being used. There's a litte icon down at the bottom of you screen that you hold the curser over and it says "Safely remove hardware." When you click on it all the external drive things...flashdrives, etc...will appear. Click on the one you are going to remove. USUALLY it says it's safe to remove, BUT I have had it tell me several times to try again later! Just a hint for all the cuties that have designs on either a flash drive, or any other external thing. Too far away for a hug, but here's a flower!!

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Hi Gerry, yes I follow all the steps to take the flash driver out...I think it was a damaged one from the beginning with. The other flash drivers work perfectly. Just in case, I copied all the other folders back to my laptop. I have a CD that I backed up those files 2 weeks ago...it doesnt read either. I will send the CD to my son in Japan, he is a computer programmer and I'm quite sure he can help me. Love,Yoriko

So sorry to hear you have lost your files.
Perhaps you can find a "techie" that can recover your deleted files.

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

I hope my son can help me, thank you, Ewroland!

Oh, I am so sorry.I make so many copies because I am afraid of the same thing happening to me. I am sorry for you loss.

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

At least 3 copies from now for me. Thank you, Debrar!

Oh NO!! NOT THE FSL!!! What a tragedy. I am truly sorry. Wish we could share, I could re-fill your file for you.

Eric

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Can you believe in this? And I am so carefull with my files! Oh well, FSL hunter from now :)

OhYoriko that is so sad!!! I know how bad you most feel.Don't you back up your files on dvd's?*****

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Yes, I do in CDs. They dont work either :(

Yoriko, I feel awful for you - I have always feared of that loss, too. I know have all my designs on an external - an extra hard drive - on a disk and on my USB drive, too - better be safe than sorry - I say. ((((((((((((((((Yoriko))))))))))))))))))))

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

So true! At least 3 copies from now! Thank you Shirlene, that hug was nice! Love,Yoriko

by shirlener88 17 Apr 2009

Oh so happy it helped.

Hi Yoriko, I'm at work (hehehehe!) I was just showing my work colleague the funny "castors" which aren't there now as they were only free for 3 hours. We call them beavers here in aust too. So sorry to hear about your problem - I'll chat to you later when I go home. Love to you Chris

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Chris, have a nice day at work! Chat to you later. Love,Yoriko

Here's a BIG HUG sweetheart! Love and kisses Ronny

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Ronny, thank you! That hug was nice! Love,Yoriko

Here is a BIG hug for Yoriko! I'm so sorry that you lost those precious designs! *4U..Barb

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Barb, thank you, that hug was nice too!Love,Yoriko

Yoriko, I'm sorry. The same happened to me with precious pics of the kids from 2 years ago. I did get some of them back by running a recovery program, but most of them were lost. I have found that it is still better to purchase rewritable cd or dvd and save to disc. Rewritables can be updated. I try to keep them organized by type or site and try to keep a small written list or what is on the disc in the pocket with the disc. I wish I could help. Prayers and blessings, Libbie

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you so much, Libbie. I will copy my files everywhere from now :) Love,Yoriko

Oh, I feel very sad for you! Wished I could help!! The biggest and hugest hugs from ME!!!! *4U, Mary

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Thank you, Mary, that hug was nice too! Love,Yoriko

Hugs Yoriko, what a horrible thing to happen. I have files saved everywhere in an attempt to have back ups. I am just about to log off for the night but I am thinking about you. Not sure of anyother comments apart from commiserations on your loss

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by manami 17 Apr 2009

Caroline, thank you! I will do the same from now: save my files everywhere!!! Love,Yoriko