Some suggestions:

Run System Restore (if your OS has this feature).

"Illegal File Name" should mean that the file name you are trying to use
either has characters that can not be used in file names OR that it is not
compatible with the filing system used by your CD-Burning software (probably
Joliet).

Try a new CD--Have you considered seeing if this behavior is particular to
just one CD or even a particular kind of CD disc (CD-R, CD-RW).

Money doesn't have its own CD burning software. The CD burning software you
have may have a problem requiring reinstallation or replacement, since
you're having this problem with THAT software (I believe you're using
different software to burn music CDs, right.

A hardware problem is very unlikely--burring wouldn't work at all most
likely if that was the case.

I'm not sure this will help but it's worth checking these things out before
we look at more serious issues.


"Paul Smith" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Paul Smith wrote:

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You can back up to a hard disk, and then burn that .mbf file onto
your CDR by Copy/Paste in Windows Explorer.

With Windows XP, you can also back up to the "hard disk" that
corresponds to your CD/R drive. Browse to the drive from "My
Computer". That will put the file onto a staging area on your hard
drive. Consider modifying the backup file name to incorporate the
date.

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I'm using windows XP and I've tried their newsgroups with
no help. Sorry for the attitude!

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Sorry for the attitude but I tried other forums and I got
no help from them so I tried here as a last resort. I
just can't believe no ones ever had this problem
before... Thanks anyway.

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Perhaps not. Certainly the fact that you cannot save to this drive from the
File Explorer indicates that the problem has nothing to do with Money, per
se. This could be why people in this group are not dying to jump in to
explain to you the meaning of writable CD drives when this is just the
microsoft.public.money newsgroup, not
microsoft.public.all_about_writable_cd_drives.

I think you need to go understand some things about what writable CD drives
are and are not. What they are not (generally) is regular old random access
read/write drives like a hard disk or a floppy. They generally require
specialized software to control how they are written to. I say generally
twice here since packet writing software (DirectCD and InCD, to name the
major players) can play pretend with the operating system to make it think
these drives are random access read/write drives when that's not what they
are.

p.s., spare us the attitude. We don't work here.

"Paul Smith" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Paul Smith wrote:

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I don't know. It sounds like an OS problem. Perhaps you described
your OS and your CD writing software on some other threads. Perhaps
you describe what you had tried already on some other threads. So
perhaps nobody can help.

Have you read what is in the FAQ on the backing up to a CD?

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What gives? This is the third time I've tried to get this
question answered and I'm either ignored or led on a wild
goose chase. Can't anyone help me?!?!


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when trying to save a backup copy to cd of my file with
money 2003 like i've always done, it tells me its an
illegal file name or the disk is write protected. when I
browse to the latest backup on the disk it tells me i
don't have permission to save in this directory, see the
administrator. I am the only user on this pc. i get the
same thing if I try to copy any files to any cd on this
drive using the file explorer. but I can write music
files to this drive using other software, and I can save
to the c: drive ok. this used to work fine but suddenly
now it doesn't. Please help me...