Hi Cuties ((-:

I have always used generic, not for embroidery, thumb drives with success. On the older sewing machines, if the thumb drive is larger than 2 GB it sometimes will not recognize the large thumb drives.

When I found out that the girls with a Janome couldn't use anything bigger than a 2GB my husband went and found some on the internet for $5 a piece. They are a funny key shape, but what the heck. Right size, right price. Then the sewing shops came out with their expensive fancy ones that only let you put one in the machine at a time - too bulky a surface for machines that have two USB slots close together.
I have an abysmally small screen on my machine so only have half a dozen designs on my USB as I cannot tell which blob is which!! Small designs are legible just not the bigger ones.
My machine is happy to read a couple of hundred files. But I cannot differentiate one blob from another.
I use bigger USBs to store my backups but not for transferring, at least until my little red USB stops working.
The bigger USBs do work - just don't put a lot of designs or folders on them. The embroidery machines that I have used cannot see the folders.

I went there and saw a great deal! I asked Maurice to check the account to make sure there was enough in there so I could order one. He said to go look on his desk. He had a 4G thumb drive for me!!! Now I can back up everything!!! Thanks for posting the link! I'd never have known about my free drive if you hadn't!
Meri

You have learned a very good lesson. Now to go one step further. Just use the smallest USB you can find. And use that ONLY to transfer your designs from your software to your machine. Do not keep more than a few designs that you are using on the USB or you can overload the computer in the machine. This is especially important for the smaller machines. I delete any design I have finished as soon as I finish the design to be sure I keep the numbers down. Now go have fun and good for you to learn important lessons and to share.

You can use any USB stick for your Husqvarna and they don't have to be 1Gb. I use a very old 256 Mb as well as 4 Gb and 8 Gb ones, none of them completely filled.
Put your designs in subfiles. As my nerdy son would say: it is not the size of the bookcase that matters, but the length of the (named) shelves.
Given the size of embroidery designs (10 - 50 kB) I could store at least 5000 designs on that old 256 Mb one, so searching for a design is a nightmare without files and subfiles.

Do you use the USB to store your designs or also to save them? For the transport from my mac to my brother I have only a very small one (128MB - was a promo-gift). The display of my brother is so bad that I hardly cannot recognize which design it is so I only put one design at a time on the stick. With the Janome I had folders on that stick but never too much cause the machine needs too long to load.
Greetings, Bettina

May I recommend you try Staples, Office Max or, even Office Depot.
They always run sales on memory sticks. Just over a month ago I got 12- 6GB for $3.00 a piece. I gave them as gifts to friends. This happens often because, these places are always updating the outside designs so, the put the old ones on sale.
Hint: If the design is fancy on the outside the price goes up - anyone notice the sewing related ones lately? (overpriced in my humble opinion)

I would not buy from this seller--look down the page and see that they are selling a cd of 2000 Disney designs. ???? Can't be legal.

2 comments

by muffy 17 Feb 2014

I checked everything that they have sold...I don't see any Disney designs being sold. The items listed towards the bottom are being sold by other sellers.
Muffy :)

by jofrog2000 18 Feb 2014

I rechecked, and you are right, I just have this cut and run reaction when I see those type of collections for sale!

The price is not out of line, and the charm is quite cute!

Thanks this has mad me look at ebay UK as it is something I need at some point. *4u

Thank goodness I don't need a specially formatted one for either my Brother or Babylock. I usually get mine from Amazon. I bet these will come in handy for some of the other Brands of EM though!! Hugs, Laura*