then when I saw they were on the cd, I went back and deleted them ALL from the pc. Now the darn pc says the cd is not any good, wont even show anything on it. I have to go download them all again. This time they are going on the smart stick thingy. I need to go eat and get away from this pc befor I hit it with a base ball bat. LOL

I will agree with you about how exausting a computer can be when it is acting up! My son tells me that it is all my fault and belittles my ability to run the thing and makes me feel like I am an idiot... It took him almost 3 momths and several trips back and to his house and then a trip to a specialist to finally get it going. My son has AADD and can remember nothing but he is a genius on a computer. He had to ear his words and my whole computer had to be reprogrammed like it was a brand new unit. When I got it back, I knew there was still something wrong with it but could not put my finger on what was going on. I would be minding my own business and going from one page to the other on Cute and it would just dissapear off the screen. After weeks of that and my son refused to help me, I called one of his friends that is in the computer business from my old home town. My son used to help him when he would get in a tight and need assistance. It took Lee less than 5 minutes to talk me though it and that problem was fixed. ALTHOUGH, he discovered another problem , over the phone. He told me I had been hacked and that it was internal and not from a wireless. I can not use my credit card or my debit card online. My dear son is too busy to find the problem and fix it! I think this mystery guy(do not know) that he went to for help when it was down so long the first of the year is the one that hacked into the computer. This is just too inconvient for me but there is no way I am going to pay someone to work on my computer when I have my son to do it for free. I am disable and have been paying all my bills online. No more! I even called the president of the bank I use,(know personally) to ask about using my debit and he told me NEVER! He suggested that I go to the library and use their's. He said that they were very secure. Yea...... I do wish I could afford another, newer, more updayed unit but I just can not afford it. My medical bills are sooooo crazy right now with me going to Wound Care 2 times a week for over a year now. I would be happy if I could just take this thing and set it on fire in the back yard. What will be , will be so I have learned to accept and go on. I might as well because I have no other choice. My son blames anything that happens on me so I really hate to ask him to work on it. Good luck!

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by danababes 16 Aug 2010

Download Malwarebytes' Antimalware from here: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.... its free and it should get rid of whatever nasties you suspect might be on your puter ("hackers" dump programs to be able to access your info). All you need to know to use this program is how to download and install then run it like a virus scan .. easy and free :) Hugz xXx

Well I hope you managed to sort it out by now. And no "bass ball bat" was used. - hugs Yvonne

usb are the way to go it is what I use anyways

Did you check your recycle bin quite often you havent emptied it and they can be returned from there

Please, can you explain what is a "flash drive", I have not found on the dictionnary, and the answers said that it is the best??, is it the same that USB key?

Use more than USB sticks. I lost MANY files on a stick that just quit working. They may be on that CD, I lost a lot of files I had actually accessed from a CD, then they just disappeared! A friend was able to retreave PART of them with some program he has. As I know more about "thing a mgigs" than computers, I don't know what the program was!!

I recently discovered that when I tried to drag a folder to burn I got nothing. I needed to copy the actual designs to NERO
(CD/DVD Nero being my software)
I am diligent on my backups I have 2 external hard drives that I back up on and a UDB stick and I also do DVD's (now that I know how)
Extreme? Yes but, I have 5 yrs of designs (and $$$)to protect soooo, I do... overkill.
Point being next time you want to save to a CD/DVD copy the designs to the disk and not the folder.

We must be related. I read your post to my husband and he laughed and said you sounded just like me. My husband has set me up with an external hard drive and also backed up all of my designs on CDs. Oh, and we share tecnical terminology also. Everything is a thingy to me. After 23 years my husband is beginning to understand and even speak my language.

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by mommadooks 15 Aug 2010

my husband use to say if they really sold a thingy or thing a ma jig, he wanted to buy stock in it. Would make a fortune. LOL

Hate that. Check your recycle bin before you try to find them. They should be in there, unless you have clean out your trash. hehehe...

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by mommadooks 15 Aug 2010

oh yeh, trash taken out. I couldnt be so lucky

Have learned from my computer mistakes and now I check before I delete. Have also set up a e-mail account just for files. It's a bit more work to keep up with but now I have a back up to my back up.

I've had that happen before on my laptop. I knew the dvd-rw was good. So I shut down, went and put it in my desktop and it was fine. Booted laptop back up, put it back in and there everything was. Sometimes if you just shut down and go back, everything works. Hope it's that easy for you. I back everything up on dvd-rw and just use flash drive when I went to transfer design in emb machine. Good luck! Carol

Here's the obvious question....Did you check your recycle bin? I'm sorry that happened to you. A baseball bat is too easy on your computer!!

Sorry to hear of your problems, sounds like its all part of the learning curve of machine embroidery. Good Luck in finding all the lost designs. If you deleted them on the pc are they in the recycle bin where you could retrieve them?
Take care and dont use the baseball bat you just might regret it (plus its costly)

I bought a 520 g portable hard drive that has a program on it that automatically makes a backup of your computer each time you use it. I then us a usb stick to put the design that I am going to embroider on to use in my machine. Plus I still have some of the designs on my computer. The hard drive cost me about $100 dollars.

For some reason my CD drive says that I either don't have a CD in the drive or that the CD is full! I have used it to download a photo CD with no problem. I went and got a flash drive for the design back up but next time I go to visit my son who lives about an hour away I am taking the flash drive and having him burn a CD for me.

I much prefer to download to flash drives. They come in 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB and 16 GB now. I use the 8 GB and 16 GB flash drives for storing back-up copies of my design CDs (use one for Anita Goodesign, one for Jenny Haskins, one for free downloads, etc.). My machine (Elissimo) will take designs off 1 GB, 2 GB, & 4 GB flash drives. The bigger the capacity, the more designs you can store, only problem is it takes longer to find the one design you want when you are ready to sew. CDs become a problem depending on how you label them too, if you use a sticky label it can actually damage the CD in time and make the CD unusable. Plus, you still have to download the design off the CD to a flash drive to sew anyway. I found a deal on 3 packs of 4 GB flash drives by SD at Costco, they are on sale now with a $10 off coupon. Target sells 4 GB flash drives for $9.99. Hope this helps. Could be this saved you from losing a whole bunch of designs in the long run, it could be a blessing.

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by mommadooks 15 Aug 2010

thank you, will say I did learn from it. I dont like this kind of lessons tho.

by spendlove 15 Aug 2010

Don't rely too heavily on flash drives as they have an internal battery which doesn't last forever and can't be changed. CDs are more permanent!

by turtleowl 15 Aug 2010

I have an external CD drive and can plug that directly to machine to use design files. I don't trust the flash drives as have had too many fail.

by nualaa 16 Aug 2010

CD's have a lifespan too, so need to be backed up as well.

Been here, done that. Really frustrating isn't it?

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by mommadooks 15 Aug 2010

Yes, thats for sure, gave me a major head ach. LOL

I know exactly how you feel...have done the same thing. I've learned tho from other 'cuties' remarks tho, that I now keep multiple back-ups...seems it's happened to many others too....so try not to feel so bad, take a break and know that you are NOT alone! :-)

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by mommadooks 15 Aug 2010

I know not alone, but not I have to go hunting for all the fonts again.

Because it's anything related to a computer, I don't put them on a disk for this very reason and I have TWO flash drives I use to back everything up twice every week. Good Lord willing at least one of them will work if, God forbid, the time comes I need them. Anne

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by mommadooks 15 Aug 2010

I have two also, just didnt use them.