Pfaff Memory Card to Jamone

> Good day,
>
> My wife went from a Pfaff sewing machine that uses Pfaff Memory Cards which
> hold the emboriery patterns used on the sewing machine. She was told there
> is a way to transfer the patterns from the memory cards to the Janome sewing
> machine.
>
> The Janome has the ability to upload the patterns from a Compact Flash Card
> or Directly from the PC Computer. So if anyone can please help me by telling
> me how to transfer them I would be thankful.
>
> Right now it "appears" I have downloaded them from the Pfaff Memory Card to
> the PC Computer as a RAM file. At least that is the extension option
> available when I downloaded them.
>
> Thanks ahead of time,
>
> Wes
>
>

> G'day Wes
> If you have them on your PC the next step is to convert to the Janome
> format. You don't say which model machine your DW owns but .jef format is
> required for 9500/9700/10000/10001/300E/350E and the more recent 11000 is
> .jef+
> Do you have Embird to convert the format? If not, you can download a
> 30day (or 100 use) free trial from www.embird.com
> Once converted, just copy 'n paste to the CF card which should be in your
> card reader (printer/fax/scanner/etc) or a PCMCIA adaptor. This adaptor
> with CF card can be inserted directly into the machine, unless you plan to
> link directly to the PC. This depends which model machine you have.
> Small capacity CF's are a bit hard to find, although older cameras used to
> come with an 8Mb or 16Mb and most of these cards are no longer used in
> cameras as they don't hold enough photos....embroidery files are smaller!!
> The machine will only read 100 designs regardless of card size, so in this
> case, size does matter!! I don't even load 100 designs on my cards
> because it takes longer for the machine to read them. Just load whatever
> you need for the current project.
> Just recently I bought a multi card PCMCIA adaptor and now use whatever
> small capacity card I pick up, SD/MMC/SM/MemoryStick/MemoryStickPro/etc.
> Not sure where you are located but your computer store should have them,
> otherwise eBay has everything you'll need.
> Hope this helps?
> Bronwyn ;-)
> Wes wrote:
>> Good day,
>> My wife went from a Pfaff sewing machine that uses Pfaff Memory Cards
>> which hold the emboriery patterns used on the sewing machine. She was
>> told there is a way to transfer the patterns from the memory cards to the
>> Janome sewing machine.
>> The Janome has the ability to upload the patterns from a Compact Flash
>> Card or Directly from the PC Computer. So if anyone can please help me by
>> telling me how to transfer them I would be thankful.
>> Right now it "appears" I have downloaded them from the Pfaff Memory Card
>> to the PC Computer as a RAM file. At least that is the extension option
>> available when I downloaded them.
>> Thanks ahead of time,
>> Wes

> Good day,
>
> First thank you for the posting....
>
> Please confirm that the data I downloaded from the Pfaff card which is
> currently in RAM format is the correct format to start from.
>
> The program I used to download the data from the Pfaff Memory card is
> "PC-Designer" version 2.1. The only way I saw to tranfer the data was as ONE
> file from the sewing maching to the computer.
>
> I hope this makes sense to you.
>
> If there a different and BETTER way to get the files off the Pfaff Memory
> Card?
>
> Ron
>
>
>>G'day Wes
>>If you have them on your PC the next step is to convert to the Janome
>>format. You don't say which model machine your DW owns but .jef format is
>>required for 9500/9700/10000/10001/300E/350E and the more recent 11000 is
>>.jef+
>>Do you have Embird to convert the format? If not, you can download a
>>30day (or 100 use) free trial from www.embird.com
>>Once converted, just copy 'n paste to the CF card which should be in your
>>card reader (printer/fax/scanner/etc) or a PCMCIA adaptor. This adaptor
>>with CF card can be inserted directly into the machine, unless you plan to
>>link directly to the PC. This depends which model machine you have.
>>Small capacity CF's are a bit hard to find, although older cameras used to
>>come with an 8Mb or 16Mb and most of these cards are no longer used in
>>cameras as they don't hold enough photos....embroidery files are smaller!!
>>The machine will only read 100 designs regardless of card size, so in this
>>case, size does matter!! I don't even load 100 designs on my cards
>>because it takes longer for the machine to read them. Just load whatever
>>you need for the current project.
>>Just recently I bought a multi card PCMCIA adaptor and now use whatever
>>small capacity card I pick up, SD/MMC/SM/MemoryStick/MemoryStickPro/etc.
>>Not sure where you are located but your computer store should have them,
>>otherwise eBay has everything you'll need.
>>Hope this helps?
>>Bronwyn ;-)
>>Wes wrote:
>>>Good day,
>>>My wife went from a Pfaff sewing machine that uses Pfaff Memory Cards
>>>which hold the emboriery patterns used on the sewing machine. She was
>>>told there is a way to transfer the patterns from the memory cards to the
>>>Janome sewing machine.
>>>The Janome has the ability to upload the patterns from a Compact Flash
>>>Card or Directly from the PC Computer. So if anyone can please help me by
>>>telling me how to transfer them I would be thankful.
>>>Right now it "appears" I have downloaded them from the Pfaff Memory Card
>>>to the PC Computer as a RAM file. At least that is the extension option
>>>available when I downloaded them.
>>>Thanks ahead of time,
>>>Wes
>
>
>

> In regards to .ram files they were similar to .mp3 so not related to
> embroidery files.
>
> Bronwyn ;-)