Everything is on one hard drive now. It was a bit of work, as I had files on all ten PCs with DE seats. Some of them have not been booted up for YEARS. Lots of duplicates, and folders containing duplicates, and folders of duplicates, and six different versions of the same file, with minor changes, etc. I guess I have been sloppy with my SAVE function.
Also, in the situations where one file had 20 or 30 different designs in it, I split them up into single files, and named each one.
That took time. Group one, double click on it to select everything BUT that design, delete the rest, name and SAVE AS the filename for THAT design, then PAGE UP to bring everything back and move to another design in the group.
UGH!
Of course DesignEdge seems unwilling to lift a finger to add any features that have been suggested by owners. 
For example, I sent message to them asking them to create a COLOR BLIND version of DE, wherein the various paths would be displayed as different patterns, rather than different colors, for table owners who see ALL the lines as the same color.
Example:
..... OPEN Path
______ CLOSED path
._._._._ SELECTED Path
_ _ _ _ _ CUT Path
DE would "see" then entire line, even though some of the pixels would be turned ON while others were turned OFF. PlasmaCam responded by saying,
How would people know where to click to find a NODE or an INTERSECTION, for example? My answer was, the computer would "see" them, even though they are not visible on the screen, just like the grid snap points that exist BETWEEN the visible grid points. Maybe intersections could "break" the line pattern where they cross to make intersections obvious, and NODE POINTS cold also be visible by breaking the pattern for a brief distance in any direction from the NODE point.
It COULD be done. I don't see it as a major programming challenge.
I
really wish DesignEdge had the ability to
SAVE SELECTED which means I could group one design, and save ONLY THAT as a separate file named (filename.pcm) Say I have a file with a dozen different "Tree of Life" designs. I would select one and SAVE SELECTED "TOL-1.pcm". Then select another one and SAVE SELECTED "TOL-2.pcm" and so forth. That would be a GREAT enhancement to DesignEdge. It would be even better if the filenames were
automatically numbered .. tol.pcm, tol(1).pcm, tol(2).pcm etc.
Maybe that is more fastidious than I needed to be, but it became difficult to open files named "05-10-2014" and search the designs only to find that the one I was looking for is NOT in there.
The struggle is real
Joe
