>> Failure of the backup files is scary. It is also interesting that both >> failures involved the same file. It is unlikely that this would be a >> common problem with my hard drive since it occured twice at different >> times months apart. >> >I had the same experience, renaming/deleting the old file did not solve >it, only first time. then I changed the filename in ptions/database/ >setting same result. > >IRA how to resolve this. ?? Test with PKZIP or WinZip. It seems some of anothers users backups were corrupted. But I am not certain it is a general problem as most people can successfully do it. Test making a backup and restore to a secondary database. See if you can get it to work even on the hard drive. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com