Cataloging PES files

Not sure if this is what you are referring to or not:

Susienorthern NY Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape.

Actually, you can organize them the way you do your other computer files in folders by categories--we all have our favorite type designs to save. If you have to, change the name to something you will remember.

I highly recommend saving these designs on floppy or CD should you suffer a system crash and lose all your designs, particularly if you have paid designs on your system. This one thing has me saved me grief numerable times.

I use the Iconizer that comes with Embird and just use the Windows directory system. The pics all come in a good speed without anything special. Right click on one and you get a large 3D view along with stitch, colour, size and thread information fast. Looks like it's part of Windows and is totally transparent for files that are not embroidery patterns.

Susie and others...

Tashambra's Organizing Designs are no longer on that site....they are here now!

use, and recommend Tashambra's folders too. You can rename and add to suit your own purposes. Hope this helps?

Bronwyn ;-)

Susie wrote:

What I am looking for is a program that show tumbnails of every .pes file on the computer. One that will work like Jasc Media Center Plus does for image files . Media Center Plus 3 is a multimedia management and cataloging program. The HTML Export command can be used to automatically generate advanced HTML pages to display your photo collections on the Web. (Please note that Media Center Plus has been discontinued as of April 2003. Jasc has replaced this product with Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album.)

And Jasc has been purchased by Corel. They haven't finished re-branding yet.

- Herb

Why not just save the pics in "My Pictures" in a PES folder??........hope you have lots of memory!!

I use the Catalog express from Ann the Gran and really like it.......It shows pics of the files, size, stitches, colors, etc..........

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned Embird and it's Iconizer plug-in. That works great. The iconizer creates thumbnails that allow you to see and sort your designs easily in Windows Explorer. In fact, I did it today. I have all my embroidery files saved in a folder entitled Embroidery, with numerous subfolders (Animals, Holidays, Floral, etc.) The iconizer causes the files to show up as the pictures of the embroidery in Explorer. You can copy or just move them to different subfolders. When I download zipped designs, I unzip them to a folder I call (creatively!) Unzipped. Then I sort them from Unzipped into their appropriate folders.

Iris

I think the Iconizer is the best. See my post above. It works ***with*** Windows transparently without having to run a special programme to browse your patterns. Cheap and worth every penny too.

AND! It's free (kind of). If you download and install the Embird trial from

after the trial expires for the embroidery portion of Embird, I'm told that the iconizer continues to do its thing!

- Herb

Buzz Explore works great. It even will fix corrupted pes files.

Note you can size your iconizer pop-ups to any size you want when you right click on an embroidery file icon.