At 10:44 PM 05/17/2000, Rene' Marker wrote: *************START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************* Liz, BackDora is a program that backs up Eudora files. I found it at www.ZDNet.com in their downloads section. Sgt. George had recommended the program on the Eudora Mail newsgroup at one time. Rene' In a message dated 5/17/00 11:02:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << BackDora, >> I seem to have missed something. What is backDora? How does is work and what is the URL? Thanks! Liz, Hollywood, FL **************END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************** Liz is correct in that I recommended BackDora as a backup program. Since that time, I found another, which I now use. That one is TaskZip. It's really a matter of choice and I won't recommend one over the other. Will just say that, personally, I liked the way TaskZip works a little better than BackDora. Actually, it's been so long that I don't remember much about BackDora, other than I liked TaskZip more. Such programs as these are ESSENTIAL in these days of viruses, worms, trojans, etc., which could wipe out your hard drive, or otherwise render your system unusable. The important thing is to get SOMETHING that will AUTOMATICALLY back up the programs and files that you deem CRITICAL!!!!! TaskZip allows you to select drives, directories, and specific files for backing up. If you are limited on drive space, you need to carefully select those files that you would need if you had to reinstall everything, so that you don't eat up too much disk space. Files to be backed up are ANY file that is changed when you work with a specific program; usually called data files, but also includes .ini files, .cfg files, etc. TaskZip will compress the files into a .zip file to save space. Since I'm working with a 27 Gb hard drive, I have plenty of space, so just did it the lazy way and backed up the entire directories where the programs are located. Examples: CFTW (my genealogy program, with all my databases)-90 Mb for full weekly backups; 5 Mb for daily backup of only changed files. Eudora (my email program, along with all mailboxes and emails)-58 Mb for full weekly backups; 2 Mb for daily backup of only changed files. Webshots (my screen-saver program, along with all collections)-757 Mb for full weekly backups; don't do daily backups. Yes, 757 Mb is a lot, but I have literally 10's of thousands of saved downloaded pictures from Webshots. You can find TaskZip at: http://www.angelfire.com/wa/pbsystems/ Enjoy, SgtGeorge