In a message dated 4/3/2006 11:14:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, JYoung6180@aol.com writes: If have an email I absolutely want to be certain isn't "lost" I first save it on my PC and then save it to AOL. I figure if I don't have a hard drive crash it is safe on my computer and if I do I'm countin on AOL not to lose their copy at the very same time--redundancy of saved files is always a good thing. <g> Joan I also mentioned that every week or so, I copied and pasted my saved mail to my external HD which is only used for backups. It stays disconnected until I want to back up some files. Lloyd