Another reason to upgrade to a Mac ; ) Time Machine backs up your entire hard drive regularly, saves even deleted items and is sooo easy to use! I NEVER lose ANYTHING. Plus since Word & Excel were originally designed for the Mac, they run better on it, too. Margaret > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:30:50 +0100 > From: "Liam Martin" <[email protected]> > Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] File Recovery > To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > "IRL-CO-Donegal" <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I was working on a 17 page Word file last week (The McSheffrey > Diaspora) when the whole thing went pear shaped. Microsoft Word > crashed and none of the data could be recovered. You know the > feeling!! > > Then I remembered that I had subscribed to Mozy (Mozyhome Remote > Backup). A good time to put it to the test. Within about 2 minutes > the file had been recovered and was back on my system as "The > McSheffrey Diaspora (I)" - Yeeee Hah! > > Mozy costs me $4.95 per month, has all my important data on a > remote server and every day automatically backs up any files that > have been changed. > > A remote backup could save your genealogical bacon too. - see the > review at the URL > > http://www.webuser.co.uk/products/Storage_backup_2216_index.html > > Liam > > "A bird in the bush is worth two in the cat" > > > ------------------------------ >