Hi – On my new computer with Windows 7 I have followed John’s instructions to set up the data files. All seems to work fine. Now I need reassurance that I am properly copying my data files from the old computer to the new. I have always made two backups – one using the BK backup and the other by copying the whole program to a DVD. I have many folders in BK. To copy the folders to Windows 7 I am copying and pasting each folder from the backup DVD to the data folder in Windows 7. To my surprise the copied files are not Read Only. I realize that the data path for text and graphic files will have to be changed. All these files seem to be working just fine and allowing changes and additions. My question is – does anyone see a flaw in what I am doing? Will it come back to bite me along the way? Thanks. Carole

If you mean the data file under Brother's Keeper, then, no, I see no problem Jack in SW Ohio On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Carole Edwards Caruso <carolec@stny.rr.com>wrote: > Hi – On my new computer with Windows 7 I have followed John’s instructions > to set up the data files. All seems to work fine. Now I need reassurance > that I am properly copying my data files from the old computer to the new. > > I have always made two backups – one using the BK backup and the other by > copying the whole program to a DVD. I have many folders in BK. > To copy the folders to Windows 7 I am copying and pasting each folder from > the backup DVD to the data folder in Windows 7. To my surprise the copied > files are not Read Only. I realize that the data path for text and graphic > files will have to be changed. All these files seem to be working just fine > and allowing changes and additions. > > My question is – does anyone see a flaw in what I am doing? Will it come > back to bite me along the way? > > Thanks. > > Carole > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

To Carole Edwards Caruso Keep a backup and check each database. If it looks OK then you are fine. To fix the picture path, try File, Utilities, Fix Picture Path. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Edwards Caruso" <carolec@stny.rr.com> To: <BK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:54 PM Subject: [BK] Restoring Folders > Hi – On my new computer with Windows 7 I have followed John’s instructions > to set up the data files. All seems to work fine. Now I need reassurance > that I am properly copying my data files from the old computer to the new. > > I have always made two backups – one using the BK backup and the other by > copying the whole program to a DVD. I have many folders in BK. > To copy the folders to Windows 7 I am copying and pasting each folder from > the backup DVD to the data folder in Windows 7. To my surprise the copied > files are not Read Only. I realize that the data path for text and graphic > files will have to be changed. All these files seem to be working just > fine and allowing changes and additions. > > My question is – does anyone see a flaw in what I am doing? Will it come > back to bite me along the way? > > Thanks. > > Carole > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message