Hi, You can just leave that backup sitting on an external drive without needing to open files. In case your HD fails, just copy over the folder from the external drive to your new HD.
How often you make a backup is up to you :-) Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:mnemosyne-proj- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: 08 April 2016 12:41 > To: mnemosyne-proj-users <[email protected]> > Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Backing-up > > I wonder if someone could clarify the process of backing-up for me? As I > understand it, there's no way of backing up automatically to the web, so one > needs to back up to a USB drive or something similar. I've gone to what I > take > to be the relevant folder at C:\Users\<your user > name>\AppData\Roaming\Mnemosyne and copied this folder to a memory > stick. When I then put this in another computer and click on one of the > Default > files in the folder, I'm warned that I'm trying to open a Date Base file and > asked > which programme I want to use to open it. I'm not sure where to go from here, > or indeed whether I'm doing the right thing in the first place. And if I am, > do I > have to keep copying the Mnemosyne folder to my flash drive every week or so > to ensure that I don't lose too much in the event of my hard-drive crashing? > I'd > be most grateful for guidance that will make sense to someone with very little > computer knowledge. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj- > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/b045ba4f-a453- > 49ca-867a-59b3ca9b5365%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/99d126663c624f0695903838d640bea0%40xmail103.UGent.be. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
