Is your SVG Collection starting to pile up and you’re worried about what might happen if your computer crashes? Do you want to take some precautions to protect your data?
The hard drive is one of the most vulnerable components in our computers because it contains parts that are constantly moving. A hard drive is made up of a stack of platters or disks that are constantly spinning at very high speeds. In addition, the hard drive also has a needle-like arm (similar to that of a turntable, but more advanced) that reads and writes data to the drive thousands of times a day using electromagnetic technology. The hard drive WILL eventually stop working, so creating backups of your data is very important! We have created a 12+ minute tutorial that shows you how to organize your files and create backups to CD using Windows Vista!
If you have any additional questions, please use the contact form at the top of this page!
This tutorial covers:
- Desktop Overview
- Working with Zip Files
- File Organization
- Backing up SVG files by burning them to a CD
- and more…
Thank you so much for the great free files and the tutorials, they are very helpful!
You guys are the best..Love your stuff and thank goodness for the knowledge. I was worried about all the files and bought a flash drive..which I never used one before but its easy. Ya think that was a good idea or not? They are cheap ya no…Well thanks again
Leo, thank you for your tutorial. I will burn my files so I don’t panic again when I can’t find my flash drive :) Yeap! I found it :)
Carmen
Thanks for the free .svg’s.
Tutortials are so helpful, thanks for those also.
Deloris
Where do I find the XP version?
Hi! It should be released today!
Thanks so much for the free files and tutorials. They have been so helpful. I haven’t used my cricut machine so much as I do now. When I get stuck on something, I run to the site and low and behold the tutorial is right there. I have learned so much just using the Sure Cuts a lot and listening to your tutorials
Thank you so much.
OK, lets see if I have this right. Then after burning the CD…to use this disc I, 1)place cd in computer 2)open SCAL 3)open project 4)in the look in box: find the cd 4)open it, and now it’s just like using my scal files I have stored in my computer????
Is there a way to copy all the fonts and dingbats that I have downloaded onto a disc?
Yes, to use your SVG files, you would simply do as you normally do. File >>> Import SVG and then select the file, except this time off of the CD drive.
Thanks so much for sharing this information with us!! I know it seems silly but im really not at all a computer person so your info totally helps me!! I knew I could burn back up cd’s but had no idea how to do it!! thanks!! so once you put it on the cd should you erase them from your svg folder…or not…im sure its either or but is one way better or no??
What a great idea for a tutorial ~ I would love to see one for the Mac also!!
I have downloaded my object. I have un zipped it and put it in a file under my name. How do I open it to cut with my Cricut? I went to my SCAL and tried to find it under my file name and it would not let me open it in my SCAL.
How many files can you fit on to a back up disk? For instance could you have unzipped all those files you had in there and backed them up on one disk?
A standard CD holds about 700MB of data. An SVG file varies from 5KB to 500KB so I would say that you could definitely unzip them and fit thousands of them on a CD! Depends on the size, but yes, you could fit our entire collection of SVG files five times (store and blog) on one CD.
Wonderful instructions, even for a computer challenged old person. :)
Thank you so much.