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From: mercury <guessme59@hotmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 10:09:15 -0700
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Thanks for the good suggestion but with over 80,000 designs to look
through many with only ref numbers even trying to ficure out what
folders to put them in is no easy task so I'm still looking for Catalog
it or something similar.
Catalog it allows for thumbnails to be viewd or printed or if I can
find a copy of adobe acrobat to make those thumbnails into pdf files
that would help as well.
On 2012-11-29 14:42:21 -0700, Pixie said:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:06:25 -0700, mercury <guessme59@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> from Amazing Designs. does anyone have this and what do you think of
>> it to catalog your embroidery collections? $99 for just a cataloging
>> program seems a little steep.
>>
> A little?? It sounds like a prize rip off!
> You can make folders, that would be all the program is. Empty folders,
> surely??
>
>
> I have never seen a Cataloguing program. Not sure how they work.
> Why would I want one??
> If I can't file my own designs... and hence find them, then I
> shouldn't be embroidering... /giggle.
>
>
> Personally, I started from the word 'go', and filed all designs by
> designer.
> Loose designs that I have no idea what they are, are filed by what
> they are, alphabetically, in a non designer based file set up.
> Eg "cat's", "dogs", "angels" etc. Not much I could do about that when
> I had no idea who designed them.
>
> By sorting by designer, then alphabetising the subfolders (design
> sets), you can't go wrong.
>
> I have been doing it this way for 12 years and have found it works the
> best.
> As soon as I retrieve a set from here, I throw it in its own named
> folder within the appropriate designer folder (whomever designed it)
> and it's a quick retrieve when I need it. That's after I have changed
> the format to .hus.
> So when someone requests a particular designer, I can go straight to
> that folder - yes I have it, no I don't.
> Most women know who designed something. As we have our favourites and
> usually remember a good designer or a favourite theme.
> Since many design houses (AD, Anita Goodesign, Hus, Pfaff etc) don't
> use named files, (it's all alpha numerical) sorting by what the
> design is will do your head in.
> Some sets have no theme, what would you settle on as a folder name for
> that if you weren't sorting by Designer??
>
> It's that easy. And didn't cost me a cent. Just a bit of time and
> conscientious work in putting my files away.
> New designer? Make a new folder. It doesn't get easier than that.
> Or cheaper! /grin
>
> The biggest design houses are in a main folder. Hus, AD, Dakota, EL,
> Pfaff etc. Just for my own ease in retrieving.
> After that, all design houses are listed alphabetically. And I broke
> those down into A-C folders etc. Anita Goodesign on Her own could be
> Her own folder. She was slowing the system down too much.
> I made Her pdf's smaller. They were a ridiculous size.
>
> It just works.
> No cost, no fuss.
>
> Pixie :-))
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