Mary, Waht operating system do you have? The directions are different for each. XP is really easy. All you have to do is right click, hit send, and send it to your CD burner drive. Let me know and I should be able to tell you. Danice Meunier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Crutchfield" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] floppy backups > Hi, > Unfortunately Family Treemaker currently does not have the system set up to > copy to a CD. I have a CD burner and it won't back up to it. I've tried it > several ways but with no success. If anyone knows of a way to do this from > FTM, I would really love to know....Hopefully one of the future upgrades > will include that capability in their "backup to" list. > > Mary > > - Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 8:28 PM > Subject: [DAVENPORT] floppy backups > > > > In a message dated 1/8/03 9:54:08 PM Central Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > > I regularly backup my files to floppies > > > > Wait until you get lots of data- I had to invest in a cd burner. My > back-up > > took 18 floppies which didn't work well. By floppy 15 or 16, the data > would > > be messed up and not all would transfer. > > > > My computer had to be re-formated last Feb and I too was glad for my hard > > copy backup. I did kick myself because it was from Oct of the previous > year > > and a whole family had to be re-entered. So I try to remind myself after > > putting in a significant amount of info. > > > > Valerie > > > > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > > For instructions on unsubscribing or searching the list archives visit: > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nvjack/davnport/group.htm > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > For instructions on unsubscribing or searching the list archives visit: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nvjack/davnport/group.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >