saving to floppy drive in Windows 7

Just upgraded to Windows 7 on my digitizing comptuer to find out that the Embroidery Disc Save As button will no longer work.  It appears that Wilcom knows about this but so far has not offered a solution.  Does anyone have a work-around so that I don't have to go through the 9-step process of saving a file to my desktop and dragging it to my floppy drive file?  Of course going back to Vista is not an option.  Much appreciated.

Running Wilcom e1.5.

Tom

  • Hi.

    Maybe save to a folder that it will save to and link it up with Junction Link Magic?

    ~John

  • Is there an export feature that you could use instead? or write your own 'save as' macro?

    • I found this was a problem with USB floppy drive.

      My new motherboard does not support internal floppy drive, so I had to buy an external USB floppy Drive.

      I use the following steps to save a design to 'A' Drive/USB thumb drive:

      File>save as

      then select floppy drive/thumb drive

      then select file format

      then click save

       

      PITA, I know, but only workaround I have.

      If you are doing Team names, same as above but click options to then select design options

      I have had a support ticket with Wilcom regarding this since around August last year, I think..... so far, I have had no response as to any fix.

      • Hi All

        Wilcom e1.5 / e2 does support USB floppy drives, if the windows OS supports the drive and all the correct device drivers are loaded there should be no problems.

        The only limitation is the non dos standard formats like FDR and FMC these formats are very old and not supported, these file formats can't be read by windows.

        File formats like DST, 100 are supported via USB floppy.

        There is a issue with USB floppy drive and Windows 7, which is addressed in a hot fix, i would suggest you try installing this patch.

        http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2496290/

         

        Below is my Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate PC.

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

        • Thank-you for the link. Yes

          This hot fix has helped with USB floppy, shame it took them a couple of years to sort it out.

          I have just upgraded my multi-head machine with a USB reader, so now I still have to do what I posted above to get the design onto the USB memory stick Huh?