In microsoft.public.money, Mikedaspike wrote:

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I *do* do that to USB flash drive, no problem.

You could use XP and browse to the CD.

Okay, but how? If you do it via File, Backup, browse to select the desired
drive, that's okay, but that overrides the auto save to hard drive next time,
so you have to reset it if you want it to keep saving to hard drive on exit.

What I want, and I think others expect too, is to be able to change the
default location of the periodic external backup from pointing to a floppy to
something a bit more contemporary. Very few PCs are even sold with floppy
drives anymore so how come Microsoft doesn't even offer the option to change
the backup to be CD or USB flash?

"Starkj" wrote:

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I agree with the statement that implies Microsoft should have designed MS
Money 2005 assuming people would be using media other than floppies for
external backup.

Now, how is it that you've found it allows backup to USB flash drive? I
find that it will allow you to backup to any drive, if you go to File,
Backup, and browse to the drive you want. But, what I want it to do is to
continue to automatically create a backup on hard drive every time I exit,
but when it asks periodically if I want to backup to external, it should
allow other alternatives (besides floppy) such as CD or USB flash. Have you
found a way to get it to do that?

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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I do have InCD installed and I write to CDs all the time. There is no option
other than backup to floppy that I can find in M2005 for setting an auto
backup every x days on exit.

"Matt" <Matt[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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You have to have some type of program to do this installed on your computer,
like INcd or DLA or something like that.

I have a problem backing up to a floppy (or other device), it used to work,
but now dosen't, not sure why. It pops up a window that says 'Backup to
floppy failed or was canceled'.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

"Derek L. Babcock" wrote:

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"Derek L. Babcock" wrote:

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I routinely back up Money 2003 to a flash drive (Drive "G") without any
problems after the usual bi-weekly prompt.

"Roystonea" wrote:

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How can I do that? I only see backup to floppy A: as an option for setting
the backup for x days on exit.

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
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And if you are running something like DirectCD or Drag-To-Disk or InCD that
presents the CD-RW to the OS as a normal read-write file system, Money will
do exactly that. Do some due diligence about the reliability of the existing
packet writing software before betting your only backups on it, however.

"Derek L. Babcock" <derek_babcock[at]uiuonline.org> wrote in message
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I agree. I want to backup on exit to my CDRW.

"Roystonea" <lonestrikrSansSpam[at]yahoo.serious.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Roystonea wrote:

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It does allow such backup to a USB flash drive.

Don't bother saying that that is not a CD.

Daniel T placed this atop a large stack of similar pebbles...

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Instead of having to compensate for the shortcomings of the product in
this manner, it would be nice if Money itself would allow automatic backup
to destinations other than the A: drive.

And yes, I have read article Q265130, and I'm not talking about that. I'm
talking about the automatic backup every N days, not the backup on exit.

Many computers these days no longer have a floppy disk (A drive.
Microsoft needs to get with the times and allow people to type in the
destination for both of the backup operations on the Backup tab in Money.
The program should test to see whether the destination is writable before
accepting it. This is a feature I'd really like to see, and I imagine I'm
not alone.

R

Just a follow up to say the /v in line below, from the original
message, should be /y to tell xcopy it's ok to overwrite the files.
Otherwise, you will receive a user input prompt.

Sorry for the error.

Oh, BTW, I just installed XP Pro and now use these lines in the bat
file to copy money data files to my e: drive, a CD-RW:

[at]echo off
xcopy c:\"documents and settings"\"<user profile name here> "\"My
Documents"\MyMone*.* e:\ /r /y
exit

Have a good one...

Daniel

Daniel T <dth[at]XNOSPAMXhotsheet.com> wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Daniel T wrote:

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Good thinking.

Here is an idea for a modification or two:

[at]echo off
xcopy c:\mydocu~1\MyMone~1*.* e:\mymoney%random%.mny h /r /v
exit

Now whenever you use this the new file will have a new name. You can
have multiple versions. Unfortunately the %date% variable produces
slashes, which cannot be used in filenames. But the date of the file
will still be available. If you would like to demonstrate the effect
of %random%, execute this line a few times:
echo test%random%string

Also, if you prefer to not use the short filenames, you can enclose
the long names, including spaces, in double quotes.

Howdy,

I use a batch file on my PC to do the CD-RW backup. In addtion, I have
a shortcut icon on my desktop and just double click. The file I use is
below; however, you may need to change some things to match your
setup. Name the file anything you wish with a .bat extension.

My file is written to copy all MyMoney files in the c:\My Documents
folder to the root directory of my CD-RW assigned as drive letter e:.
The /r switch forces an overwrite of read-only files and the /v switch
is to verify the data. The tilde ~1 is necessary due to the 8.3
character restriction in DOS and is usually found just left of the
number 1 key on your keyboard. [at]echo off tells the system not to
display the xcopy line and the exit command while running.

[at]echo off
xcopy c:\mydocu~1\MyMone~1*.* e:\ /r /v
exit

You can get more xcopy info by typing xcopy /? |more at a MS-DOS
prompt. The | symbol is the pipe usually located on the backslash key
of your keyboard. The |more command allows paging view in DOS.

All the best to everyone...

"Bob Peel, MVP" <Bob_Peel[at]kiandra.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

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is there a method that would allow such actions?