Backing up Money

#3 06-29-2004, 01:57 AM

As Cal has pointed out, I have been using a USB Flash drive as a Floppy
drive under XP Home for 3 versions of Money. Once I plug it in, it
allows me to change the A: drive selection to my USB selection (G: in
this case). Not only that, but in subsequent weekly "Floppy drive"
backups if the USB drive is not installed I get a message asking me to
install it.

Art

Cal Learner-- MVP wrote:

- quote -

> In microsoft.public.money, <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > THe USB flash drive is a good idea. The issue is
> > directing MONEY to send the backup to a drive other then
> > A:\.
> Money lets me choose the USB drive as the floppy backup drive.
> > MONEY will not let me change the backup directory from A:\
> > > I've been simply copying the backup made on the hard
> > drive to the USB drive.
> That works too.

#2 06-29-2004, 01:24 AM

In microsoft.public.money, <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.comwrote:

- quote -

> THe USB flash drive is a good idea. The issue is
> directing MONEY to send the backup to a drive other then
> A:\.

Money lets me choose the USB drive as the floppy backup drive.

- quote -

> MONEY will not let me change the backup directory from A:\
> I've been simply copying the backup made on the hard
> drive to the USB drive.

That works too.

#1 06-29-2004, 01:17 AM

THe USB flash drive is a good idea. The issue is
directing MONEY to send the backup to a drive other then
A:\.
MONEY will not let me change the backup directory from A:\

I've been simply copying the backup made on the hard
drive to the USB drive.

Michael

- quote -

> -----Original Message-----
> In microsoft.public.money, Taoz[at]aol.com wrote:
> > Help!! I'm new to the Money program and I can't get it
to
> > back up my file. I have a Zip750 drive to which I want
to
> > back up my file. I found out last week that I can't
use a
> > Zip100 disk with this drive as it is not backward
> > compatible to Zip 100. So I backed it up with a
Zip250
> > as the drive is backward compatible to this size disk.
> > This backup was done 6/21/04.
> > Today (6/28/04) I went to back it up again and it won't
> > let me do it. It keeps asking for 6 or 7 floppy disks
to
> > back it up on even though my backup clearly asks for
Zip
> > drive. I just can't back the file up no matter how
many
> > times I try to change the backup option to the Zip
drive
> > rather than the floppy.
> > Can anybody give me some help? Thank you very much.
> > Paul Zalesak
> I suggest you consider a USB Flash drive. These are
generally more
> reliable than Zip disks.
> A really neat way to find prior postings in this group
is to use the
> Google Usenet Groups archive.
> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search enter
words that you
> think would be in relevant posts into the "all of the
words" box.
> Enter microsoft.public.money into the newsgroup box.
Consider
> selecting Sort By Date.
> .

06-28-2004, 05:15 PM

In microsoft.public.money, Taoz[at]aol.com wrote:

- quote -

> Help!! I'm new to the Money program and I can't get it to
> back up my file. I have a Zip750 drive to which I want to
> back up my file. I found out last week that I can't use a
> Zip100 disk with this drive as it is not backward
> compatible to Zip 100. So I backed it up with a Zip250
> as the drive is backward compatible to this size disk.
> This backup was done 6/21/04.
> Today (6/28/04) I went to back it up again and it won't
> let me do it. It keeps asking for 6 or 7 floppy disks to
> back it up on even though my backup clearly asks for Zip
> drive. I just can't back the file up no matter how many
> times I try to change the backup option to the Zip drive
> rather than the floppy.
> Can anybody give me some help? Thank you very much.
> Paul Zalesak

I suggest you consider a USB Flash drive. These are generally more
reliable than Zip disks.

A really neat way to find prior postings in this group is to use the
Google Usenet Groups archive.

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search enter words that you
think would be in relevant posts into the "all of the words" box.
Enter microsoft.public.money into the newsgroup box. Consider
selecting Sort By Date.

#-1 06-28-2004, 04:10 PM

Help!! I'm new to the Money program and I can't get it to
back up my file. I have a Zip750 drive to which I want to
back up my file. I found out last week that I can't use a
Zip100 disk with this drive as it is not backward
compatible to Zip 100. So I backed it up with a Zip250
as the drive is backward compatible to this size disk.
This backup was done 6/21/04.
Today (6/28/04) I went to back it up again and it won't
let me do it. It keeps asking for 6 or 7 floppy disks to
back it up on even though my backup clearly asks for Zip
drive. I just can't back the file up no matter how many
times I try to change the backup option to the Zip drive
rather than the floppy.
Can anybody give me some help? Thank you very much.
Paul Zalesak

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