Has anyone every downloaded a freebie from a site, and then when you go back to it to put to your machine it tells you that the embroidery file was corrupted? I am glad I did not put to machine.

Silver gve you a really good answer so I only have to say Flower and XoXo

I also downloaded that set. Went to dble chk it. No probs with it. It could be like "silver" says, something to do with your ISP?!?! *4U trouble

I have, but as silver said - it more than likely was in the download process - it can't hurt your machine - as you couldn't get it there if you tried. Hehehe! *4U

Yes... It usually poses no risk to your machine embroidery tho. The error is often due to download / connections (via ISP) problems or a bad unzipping program tho.
If there are consistent problems like this from a single site try letting them know (if you are sure your internet connection is good). If they are in zip format try reloading the program you use to open zip files, it may in fact be corrupt. If you are doubtful of the site and they are in zip format Be Sure to scan to manually them using a good virus/spyware program like AVG by Grisoft before opening them!!!!!!!!! I ALWAYS do this from new sites...You would be surprised at how much 'bad' stuff they can pack in those files... Many 'freebie' sites, NOT here and Cute and not at decent sites like DesignsBySick, but some of those in China, Korea, Taiwan, Russia (where such things are not as well policed and prosecution is tougher to carry out) as well as some US sites include spyware in the zip files...
Caveat Emptor!

Silver

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by silver 21 Mar 2008

lol I switched 2 words around... sorry...

"It usually poses no risk to your embroidery machine tho."

by shirlener88 22 Mar 2008

silver, I am impressed. Thank you. *4U

I just got a corrupted file, broke my heart, real pretty flower font from tommy-freeset.com They have really neat sets to download free every couplehours, all others have been fine but this one read as corrupted, even had hubby ck it out but couldn't fix it so deleted it

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by dlonnahawkins 21 Mar 2008

This is where it happened to me to. Thought that it would be nice, but believe me, I went back a checked others. I have good spyware on my computer system, and all, but guess that is was something with the file from tommy-freeset.com

After downloading I also run a scan for the folder the pattern went into to make sure everything is ok. More work but well worth it.

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by silver 21 Mar 2008

Yep you are very smart to do this 'pafhen'! More people should follow your lead... They would have far less computer problems and take less chances for security risks if they did so!
A flower for you!!!

Yes, this has happened to me. I have a Brother PE700II that states in the instruction manual that my machine will take PES and DST, unfortunately DST does not work when downloaded to the machine. A flower for your trouble

the very reason I always add a disclaimer when reccommending a site, unless I have personally downloaded without problem. ;)

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by dlonnahawkins 21 Mar 2008

You are "sew" wise. This frightened me. Sure will watch from now on.

by silver 21 Mar 2008

Yep you are very smart to do this 'dlonnahawkins'! A flower for you too!!!