I have done it!
It took me nearly a year but I have cleaned up all my embroidery files!!!!It still contains over 96.000 files but I have seen them all! and thousands and thousands more which I just deleted as the digitising was so bad!
www.cuteembroidery.com
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Good for you. When I first came to the Cute site and was DL everything in sight, a cutie told me to get organised from the start. Best piece of advice ever. I still go through my files and delete things I know I will not use. Hugs Sarah.
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66908Congratulations on your organization!! Now maybe I will get motivated to try and do something with my files. I quit downloading the freebies a long time ago and I always open my zip files and just save what is in my machine format so that will save me some time. You should be very proud of your accomplishment. Hugs, mary
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33871Congratulations on cleaning up your embroidery files. I also am in the progress of doing it and have gone from a to Easter, in alphabetical order. As I go along if I don't like a design, it is deleted as are all of the formats that I can't use. I also am not downloading a file if I can't unzip and clean it up right then and there. Hopefully this will make it easier in the long run. Again congratulations.
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16707When you cleaned up your files did you unzip everything and delete the formats you won't be using? Did you resort by designer or subject? I am in the process of cleaning mine up and boy is it overwhelming at times. I find the designs are of little use to me zipped when I am searching for something in particular. Time consuming but also rewarding.
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by lique
08 May 2013
I do it by subject. although I have most of my designs labeled where they came from (At least the later ones) Everything is unzipped and only in the format I use. I have a folder with all the zipped designs on a back up disk just in case.... I also have everything backed up on an external drive.
1572Oh I'm jealous! Well done. I think It will take me that long also. I think it was the excitement of all the freebies that did me in at the beginning as well. I seem to be forever sorting but I have a problem deleting. I always think I might need that one day. You give me hope that some day I will be organised with my filing. Thankyou :)
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4666Wow that is really amazing, how did you go about such a feat?
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by lique
08 May 2013
Started with a and did an hour each evening unless I was out! Despaired sometimes as my computer was sooooooooo slow!!!
173692you must be a motivator. I started doing the same thing and it will probably take me about as long as it took you
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2848WOW.....I am trying to do some of that too and can appreciate how much work that is.....contgratulations....it's got to feel good!!!!
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3101Awesome! Come and do mine now please. I never have time to get rid of all the formats I don't need.
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463407Great job. It is a great feeling when it is all done. Did mine some time ago. Shirley
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52686Let's throw a party. I desperately need to do mine too, but there never seems to be enough hours in the day etc. Well done you! Love and blessings Chris
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by pennifold
06 May 2013
What I find the hardest Angelique is trying to remember what I have actually bought. Sometimes I go to a site and think ooh that's nice and buy it only to find I've already got it. This is of course sites that don't let you know that you've already bought it.
by lique
07 May 2013
I now adays do not buy much any more but do all my own digitising. I also have given up on freebies although I could not resist the cute baby font!
234496WOW, I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MINE for 3 yrs and i am so proud of you. Kay
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by lique
07 May 2013
Thak you. I now know how many I have and that I really do not need more. (wishful thinking)
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57675Well done took a bit more that 6 mths. My files are a working progress. Never enough hrs in the day ." Ps g/sons bday end of may heheheheeee" :)
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42046Oh my goodness. That is a task I don't think I ever want to start because I know I would never finish. What is your secret? I always tell a friend when she starts to embroidery to go to various sites but, I have cautioned her that some free designs are just not worth saving. I agree with one of the other cuties comments - taste do change. Congratulations on your job.
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by lique
07 May 2013
I know, but it is not only my taste I make a fair few projects for other people and they like different things!
19439Yes, when we start embroidering, it is very easy to get the free ones and not to know what is good and what is not good. So well done to you.
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by lique
07 May 2013
Sometimes they look good on a picture but when you open them they are appaling!
16529I have a spare bedroom. Could you come over and clean out my embroidery files? :)
Sadly I wouldn't even know if something is badly digitized.
Angie
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by lique
07 May 2013
YTou would sure notice if you had embroidered some of the designs.! I can't believe they dare to sell those!!!
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6196115749A year, oh my gosh I have just started my clean out. In the beginning I saved every freebee now I am deleting soooooooooo many.
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11814I am full of admiration for your achievement. Now, when would it be convenient for you to sort my files out?
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11929Congrats. I tend to clean up when I have to reload my designs back into my computer after my husband scrubs it periodically. Yes, we do back it up before he scrubs it.
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by lique
07 May 2013
I always back up! Luckily because I manged to wipe my whole file of alphabets!!
169064There you go! Now, get in the habit to "clean up" at least once a week. Every Sunday evening I back up all my purchased designs, if I didn't do it as soon as purchased. Most of the time I back up as soon as purchased. I don't do freebies so it is faster for me to accomplish that job. Years ago I cleaned out my designs and so many freebies were deleted as they were just "ugly and bad". Plus, my taste in designs changed..Hugs....Carol
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by lique
07 May 2013
I also have given up on most freebies ( sometimes it is hard to resist) But it was the random downloading in the beginning that did me in.
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