We in Europe have trouble opening the cut files which are made by American designers in the cricut designstudio. My husband is an IT professional and he found the problem which is easy to solve.
In America, all files are saved with the American notation of the date inside the file. For example: 29 july 2008 = 07/29/2008. In Europe the computers register this date as 29-07-2008. So when we try to open a cutfile with the American date in it, it won’t open.
To fix that you do the following:
Download Hex editor of:
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm#download
Install this program on your PC and open it.
Open the cutfile in this program and at the right side of the screen somewhere close to the top, you see the date. (I made it pink in the picture) If it has for example the date 07/29/2008 change the 29 in whatever month you want from 1-12. Then save it and you can open your file in cricut design studio.
If you have trouble understanding this go to Susan Bluerobot for a tutorial about this.
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much for this. I could not understand why these were not downloading.
This is wonderful. Thank you so much its fixed some really great cutfiles for me.
Would you be able to send me the cut file of the spiral. I downloaded hexedit and have been able to change the dates on the cut files so now I can play around with most of them. I still have problems with some. I saw spiral cards in one of our local stores and thought what a great idea and then came to your blog and there was a file! Now I can’t find it again. My best email for contact is flohillrennie@gmail.com . Hoping this reaches you.
PS I’m in New Zealand way down under.
Thanks
Flo
Carla, since you changed the link to spiral cut, can you resend to me?
Thanks Jan
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