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Library

The Library tab shows the shop's stitch files as pictures: every DST, PES, EXP, JEF, VP3, XXX and U01 in the library's folders and the folders inside them. Each card shows the size, stitches, stops, run time and the safety check's result (green, amber or red).

A design saved in several formats in one folder (logo.DST, logo.PES and logo.JEF, say, as in a bought pack) is one card. It shows the DST, or the first of PES, JEF, EXP, XXX, U01 and VP3 that is there, and lists the other formats after its name (+ PES, JEF). Clicking it opens the one shown; the others are next to it in the folder.

#The pictures' colours

A PES, JEF or VP3 names its thread colours, and its picture uses them. A DST (or EXP) names none: the machine is told which thread goes on which needle. So for a DST the picture takes its colours from:

1. the report saved beside it (NAME.txt next to NAME.DST): every design Stitch Sprint saves has one, with the thread on each needle and the needle for each stop;
2. else the same design in a format that names colours, in the same folder (NAME.PES, as in a bought pack);
3. else stand-in colours: grey for a one-colour design; blue, red, yellow, green and so on, one per stop, for several, so the stops can be told apart. Those aren't the threads to load.

A report or PES for a different number of stops than the DST isn't used.

#Using it

• Search by name or folder; sort by date, name or folder.
• Click a design to open it in Check a DST, with the full preview and report.
• Add to design places it in the design as a piece, to add a name or combine it with others.

#Folders

• To begin with, the library is the saved designs folder. Add the folders where you keep your stitch files.
• Folders lists them: remove one, or paste another folder's path to add it.
• Designs in a folder named rejected are left out.
• Bonus designs, such as the Christmas Collection, go in the saved designs folder, so they show here. If you took the saved designs folder out of the list, their own folder is added.

#Fix flagged files

Fix flagged files runs the DST doctor on every design the search shows.

• Each file the check flags and the doctor can fix is saved as NAME fixed.DST, with its picture, report and worksheet, in the saved designs folder under Fixed by the doctor, in the same folders it sits in in the library.
• Your files are never changed.
• To do one folder, search for its name first.
• Files fixed before are skipped until they change.
• Sew a test of a fixed copy before running it.

#The cache

Pictures and numbers are worked out the first time a design is shown and remembered, so the library opens at once the next time. Nothing in the folders is changed.

Files outside the library's folders are refused.