That's wise.... As with others, I have learned to back up my files
regularly. I have files on another hard drive as well as on CD's...
I remember the second or third time I lost information and had to go
back and get the most recent backup.... then start from there and
rebuild.... Usually it wasn't too awful much.... but it was time
consuming when it should never have been.
It's best to back up to another drive. I'd say that second best is to
back up to a CD that's re-writable... that is, formatted like a
regular hard drive on which files can be over-written, deleted, changed,
added, re-saved.... Then it works just like a hard drive.
Hmmm.... this reminds me.... I have to back up my files. <grin>
Joseph
Steve Ayres wrote:
I agree with what you say but not all can afford an external hard
drive. But I do copy the backup files to a USB stick or to a
rewriteable DVD just in case.
Steve
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:07:42 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backing Up Legacy Files
>
> Perhaps we who speak of backing up to our C-drives do that because we
> also back up our files to external hard-drives and online services. If
> your main drive gets fried it will also fry your second partition. I
> certainly wouldn't go that route myself.
>
> JL
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> Steve Ayres wrote:
> > I notice from the discussions that a number of people back up their
> > Legacy Family file to "C" drive, I found out the hard way that
this is
> > not a good idea. I made a separate drive partion and called it "Back
> > Up" and now I always make my backups to the folder on the Back Up
> > drive called "Legacy Back Up".
> >
> > Windows became corrupted on my PC a couple of years back and I lost
> > everything that had been saved into "C" drive and a friend suggested
> > making a separate drive for backups and it has saved me a lot of work
> > on two occasions as I also back up other programs into their own
> > folders on the drive.
> >
> > I reinstalled XP recently and all my software including Legacy, then
> > just clicked on "Restore Family File" and away I went. I also back up
> > my family files after every change, just in case.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
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