I had a disastrous update with V 7.4. Now just what the base problem is well I am not into throwing brick bats here. What I would like is some advice for when I found that all my family files and dozens of backups made over many years were all just inaccessible I was horrified. More than 20 years of research as put into these files were just an entry in windows explorer. Now a lot of my base info is in spreadsheets which go back to 1980 something. But those sheets and their programming have all advanced on with the years. I never expect to be totally locked out of any spreadsheet, but the Legacy database appears to be only accessible by their program, and to make it worse, only by the version that the particular file was created in, except that you MAY be lucky that a later version will upgrade and convert your old file. So what I would like is for some of you bright ones to advise me as to how NOT to have all my eggs in one basket. In bygone years I have used a number of databases, but when I was faced with a pile of backups all very carefully placed both on local and remote locations, were just useless as the base program just would not run, I was near sick for some days. I never want that again, never!. So please advise me, should I migrate to another database system, duplicate in another format, or just what?. All this is enough to suggest to me to curtail my work, print as is, and leave it there. Dave
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