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Do you still have the diskettes you used with your old Designer1?
I have quite a collection of old Husqvarna/Viking designs. No need to put them on a usb-stick / thumb drive. Just plug an external diskette reader into your machine (or a hub if you think that prolongs the life of your machine's usb-port) and load thedesigns as you would from your thumb drive.
I had an external reader as my laptop did not have a built-in one, so I tried that out, it worked, and have used that ever since.
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jofrog2000
10 Aug 2013
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I prefer to do this with my ellegante. Lots of floppies here! I save business size envelopes, cut one short end off, and after puting my selection on the floppy, it slips right in. Then I can use the envelope for notes, colors, etc. Prefer this to the usb, LOL, even after lusting after one from havingan ellageo. I have the flash drives, but it takes longer to wade through what I have on them.
Jo
Jo
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It was easy to write information on the discs, not so easy to label flash drives that contain so many more designs, 2Gb or more instead of the 1.4 Mb of the floppies. I must say i still use my first ever usb-stick - a 256 kb one - the machine reads it so much faster than the larger ones.
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Just be sure & back up as usual. I have a ton of them & for some reason all at once they quit reading. But I, too, have the external drive to plug into my Diamond.
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Me too, lots of them, carefully labelled. The HV collections came with nice booklets with full size colour prints etc. it seems a shame not to use them. And i backed them all up as well, on my laptop, on cd's and dvd's.
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The external floppy drive is great as I have many, many floppies. Can you use an external CD drive on a sewing machine with a USB plug?
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I don't know and i never tried as i don't have one.
Me either, but I would get one if I knew it worked. One costs around $35.00 or less.
An external CD drive may not have the needed drivers to operate. I would ask your embroidery machine dealer or the maker directly. Let them try it out and save you the expense.
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Good to know. I am still making diskettes to run on my designer. I hope she runs for many years to come.
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I gave my Designer1 to my daughter, but did not add all designs, just the ones she liked best. So I was left with quite a few. The machine is still performing well, I bought it in 1998, and I too hope it will run for many more years.