OK, got another question, I have all my designs in folders within a folder and would like to know how I might go about burning the folder contents to CD. TIA

If you have a big lots store near you they have a
4 gig flash drive for $10

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by leenova54 02 Aug 2010

I do, thanks!

by leenova54 02 Aug 2010

Well, I had to pay $12 for it, maybe a sale ended and I got their last one.

by psssst 04 Aug 2010

Still a bargain and lucky you to get the last one!

I would love to learn how to do this too but it sounds pretty complicated to me!

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by leenova54 02 Aug 2010

I'm not great with the computer but if you have a burner that works it isn't too hard I guess. I have burned CDs of photos through my Kodak site so I don't know why I am having so much trouble here.

Until you can get your problem solved try opening a new e-mail account and copy your files into it as your back up. Or if you have just a few put them in your existing account. I start by opening a new e-mail and instead of sending it I save it to the draft folder and then open the draft folder and make files for them. You could just safe guard a few of you favorite ones this way.

Thanks to all, I am printing out your info. My burner tells me the CD I put in is either full or not writable. I tried 3 different blank ones and it said that for all. I do have DVD rewritable ones I have are no longer in the drawer they were in for a long time! Now I have to figure out where they are and I just might get a USB thingy this week. I am so frustrated without my IT son here anymore! GRRRR

Mine is easy peasy lemon squezy. I have a dvd read and write on my laptop and desktop. Put dvd in my drive, give it a name and then copy and paste or cut and paste to the dvd. I keep all my designs backed up on dvds. You can also drag and drop. Good luck. Carol

I see you got your answer. :)

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After you have a burner programm go to your embroidery file. To get your files to CD burner use the right mouse button to click on the file and go to SEND TO then click on your CD burner drive and take it from there. Margaret

If your computer has a cd or dvd drive, it has the capability of burning a cd or dvd. Put a disc into the drive, and a window will come up asking you what you want to do. You want to open a window for that drive. (On my laptop, it's D) Click that window to put it into the bottom of the screen. Open the folder that holds your designs, hightlight them and copy them to the cd drive. If you then bring up the first window, the files should be there. You can click on one of them to open it to make sure all is filled. Back out of that file, and on the left should be the option to burn these files to a disc. Then you name it in the next pop up window (I use the date) and follow the prompts. It will tell you approximately how long it will take, and then it is copying. When it finishes, it will ask whether to delete the temp files, you can do that, cause it's only in the cd drive. Your originals are still in there original place.
I put mine on cd's-2 copies, which I do not store in the same place, then copy that cd to my external hard drive. With my new computer with lots more space, I also keep a copy of the cd on it. So I have copies all over. Never hurts to have more than one. I do not use flash drives as a final holding place, they can fail also, but I do use them for temporarily holding the files as I collect them.

First your cd/dvd player must also be a burner.
It is best if you put the designs onto a dvd they hold more info.
Depending on what OS you have or if you have a burning software like Nero.
Using Nero you can drag and drop the designs
NOT the folders
to the burn data page and then click on burn.
Using your OS (I have xp) you can open your media center then choose burn a cd/dvd then follow the steps. I believe it is the same for windows 7.

This requires a program like Roxio to take the files on the hard drive and burn them to a CD. There is a free CD burning program, called CD Burner. I tried using it but could never get it to work. So, you need to install a cd burning program on your computer, insert a disk, then select the files to be put on the disk and let the program burn the disk. You might consider getting an external hard drive or a thumb drive (AKA USB drive) and putting the files on there. Then you don't need to buy software. You just drag and drop the files using My Computer, by opening two windows, one with your C drive, the other with the external drive. You then click and drag the files to from one window to the other to make a copy.