Thank you Mike, your answer has put my mind at rest, I do keep backups externally. A Happy New Year to you, John On 28 Dec 2013, at 15:18, Beryl & Mike Tate <[email protected]> wrote: > John says: > <snippet> > I have created a master Project, is it advisable to keep the original Gedcom and all the attached media files, to me it seems > pointless with a duplicate set of files which do not update when entering new information, any advice on this would be appreciated. > <snippet> > > You only need to keep the original Gedcom and media files until you have created backups of your master Project. > > The File > Backup/Restore command in FH V5 offers three options: > 1) Small (Gedcom only) > 2) Medium (Gedcom & Data folder including Media files) > 3) Full (Gedcom & Data & Public folders) > > However, if kept on the same disk drive, these only protect against accidental corruption of your Project data. > This may result from human error, or software errors in FH or Plugins, or other programs such as Ancestral Sources. > > They may NOT protect against PC or Disk failure, theft, fire, flood, power surges, lightening, etc. > So all your data, not just FH Projects, should be backed up regularly to some external storage. > For more detailed advise see the FHUG Knowledge Base at: > http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=glossary:backup_and_recovery > > Happy New Year, Mike Tate > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message