"gnolte2" <gnolte2@ametro.net> wrote: >I have tried to use Explorer- Fine- but all I come up with is the 1st >Allen listed in the Explorer. What do I need to do to find all of >them Use the "next" button in explorer to find the next Allen. Wayne League

Can't you write a quick report within FO looking for all the Allen's? - Tom Stombaugh -----Original Message----- From: wleague@mindspring.com [mailto:wleague@mindspring.com] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:03 AM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FO] Using FO Explorer to find all entries of a specific given name "gnolte2" <gnolte2@ametro.net> wrote: >I have tried to use Explorer- Fine- but all I come up with is the 1st >Allen listed in the Explorer. What do I need to do to find all of >them Use the "next" button in explorer to find the next Allen. Wayne League ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== PLEASE send personal replies and "THANK YOU" message privately. All messages on this list are archived and archiving takes up valuable space.

Someone on the message board just asked about changing the spelling of a surname. I mentioned that it is always best to have a backup before doing something like this. Shame on you id you don't have one. But, to get a list of everyone in the database with a given name which contains "Alan" you can: Go to the Reports menu, Select "Lists" Select "Individual List" - Hit the create button -- on the Individual List dialog window, Select "Select Individuals" And any other options you want on the list Send it to a file or screen printer to preview and/or print == Select OK -- On the green side, the mark side of the "Print which individuals?" dialog window, choose "Find" Then choose given name for "Which field" Choose "Contains" as the comparison And enter "Alan " in the "Search for? Field and hit the Ok button, hit Ok again and you should have your list. Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "gnolte2" <gnolte2@ametro.net> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:25 PM Subject: [FO] Using FO Explorer to find all entries of a specific given name > I'm trying to identify all the "Allen" given names in my data base as I made a very stupid mistake using Global Search and Replace. (new laptop, NOT used to the hair trigger touch pad!!) I changed all given names "Allen" to "Alan". I have a lot of "Alan"s now and want to correct the spelling of those that need it... I have over 32,000 people in my data base so it is hard to scan them all. > > I have tried to use Explorer- Fine- but all I come up with is the 1st Allen listed in the Explorer. What do I need to do to find all of them? Can I print out a list? Perhaps I'm using the wrong tool for this? > > Tried to search archives this evening but am having a problem staying online. > > Thanks for any and all help. > > Mary Nolte >

I'm trying to identify all the "Allen" given names in my data base as I made a very stupid mistake using Global Search and Replace. (new laptop, NOT used to the hair trigger touch pad!!) I changed all given names "Allen" to "Alan". I have a lot of "Alan"s now and want to correct the spelling of those that need it... I have over 32,000 people in my data base so it is hard to scan them all. I have tried to use Explorer- Fine- but all I come up with is the 1st Allen listed in the Explorer. What do I need to do to find all of them? Can I print out a list? Perhaps I'm using the wrong tool for this? Tried to search archives this evening but am having a problem staying online. Thanks for any and all help. Mary Nolte

Hi All Ye gods, any (PC compatible) file can be zipped! Perhaps what Jeffery *meant* to type was that as merely text files, GEDCOM files make good candidates to be compressed using a Zipping technique to reduce transmission times and/or storage space? <grin> Regards Phil At 07:50 PM 1/1/2003, Jeffrey Scism wrote: >GEDCOMS can be zipped.... ) >-- > >Jeffery Scism, http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com/ International >Blacksheep Society of Genealogists > >Homepages: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scismfam/ > > >==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== >The Genealogical Companion http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm >Browsable Archives: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/family-origins-users/ Kent FHS Member 9420 NW Kent FHS member 4308 GLS FHS Member O5562 CON FHS Member 13140 DEV FHS Member 13722 SoG Member 009987 GOONS Member 1703 All my emails are checked for virus infection so can be regarded as clean as a whistle I use and recommend CD's from ACDB for my One Name Study research http://www.archivecdbooks.org/

Bruce zips up our backups for us - I wonder why he hasn't at least given us the option to zip up the gedcoms in a self-extracting format? Granted most gedcoms are pretty small anyway but it would be a nice feature. Good Hunting! -- Paul aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com where YOU are the search engine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil & Heather" <philwarn@ntlworld.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [FO] Sending Email backups > Hi All > > Ye gods, any (PC compatible) file can be zipped! Perhaps what Jeffery > *meant* to type was that as merely text files, GEDCOM files make good > candidates to be compressed using a Zipping technique to reduce > transmission times and/or storage space? <grin> > > Regards > > Phil

Email backups or gedcoms may work fine for smaller databases, but my FO database has 8+ mg and my gedcom about 20 mg. I don't know the current size limitations for attachments for most ISPs, but I am assuming both of mine are way too large. When I had my dialup ISP, the limitation was approximately the size of one floppy disk. Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Smith" <prsmith@houston.rr.com> > But are still not as reliable or as safe as backups or gedcoms attached to emails sent to, and checked by, relatives or fellow researchers or stored at work. Why would you want to spend money on CDs, diskettes, etc. when emails are free and provide better protection? > Good Hunting! -- Paul

> When I had my dialup ISP, the limitation > was approximately the size of one floppy disk. I hope you weren't actually PAYING for that <g>! Good Hunting! -- Paul aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com where YOU are the search engine.

To add to what Paul recommends, I have bought a number of copies of FO for my genealogy-minded cousins around the world in the past. So those Backup copies of your data are a constant reminder of what help you need with your research<G>! Cheers! Tim > But are still not as reliable or as safe as backups or gedcoms attached to > emails sent to, and checked by, relatives or fellow researchers or stored at > work. > Good Hunting! -- Paul > aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com

>>Let me start all over and use the correct nomenclature. They are replacing the tower which I assume means "the whole thing". I am computer-challenged. At age 78 I do not have a peer group I can talk to about such things. Not an excuse but an explanation.<< Nothing unusual about that in any genealogy group I have ever met, including my computer aided genealogy group. You may well find that your peer group is here. Get a local guru to copy the entire hard drive before giving up the whole tower. Alternatively, have the hard drive removed before giving up the whole tower assembly. Either way it will not cost much, say $50-75. If you are in the boonies, the local high school teacher can recommend some bright young kid to do the work. My uncle, b 1914, (a retired maintainence man) is still computing since I got him going around 1989. Paul Studly Cleveland/Chesterland, OH paulstudly@studly.net -----Original Message----- From: Varick [mailto:tallygators@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 12:03 PM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [FO] CPU replacement Let me start all over and use the correct nomenclature. They are replacing the tower which I assume means "the whole thing". I am computer-challenged. At age 78 I do not have a peer group I can talk to about such things. Not an excuse but an explanation. Floreda -----Original Message----- From: Joyce Ragels [mailto:jragels@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:43 AM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FO] CPU replacement I know, but if a person was just replacing the CPU there should not be any loss of anything. We should all think of the CPU (Computer Processing Unit) as the box or outer covering of the other stuff. Being picky is how new terms are learned. You were not wrong in pointing that out. J Henry Terhune wrote: > Not trying to be picky but... a CPU is not the hard drive. > > >>Varick wrote: >> >>>We are replacing the CPU on this computer (just got this one in July and >>>I lost lots of stuff - particularly my address book when we installed >>>this one). >>> >>> >>> >>>Floreda >>> >> > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE remove as much of the Original Message as possible when replying to a List Posting. Include only that part of the original message important to your reply. > > -- Joyce Ragels Tucson Arizona USA Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== PLEASE send personal replies and "THANK YOU" message privately. All messages on this list are archived and archiving takes up valuable space.

You'll have to experiment. I've sent programs that were considerably larger than that but all ISPs are not created equal <g>. On the other hand, get WinZip: WinZip® makes it easy to create Zip files that are split into smaller pieces of a size that you specify. There are several reasons why you might want to do this, such as: · To overcome e-mail size limits. Some e-mail systems limit the size of attachments; if you want to e-mail a large Zip file that exceeds your limit, you can split it into smaller parts and e-mail them separately. · As an alternative to spanned Zip files when you want to make multiple copies of the disk set. · As an alternative to spanned Zip files when you want to make the disk contents as a separate step from making the disks themselves. · To assist with large downloads. Some users may have difficulty downloading very large Zip files from web sites, FTP sites, etc. You can use the split Zip feature to break large files into smaller pieces that can be downloaded separately. To split a Zip file into smaller pieces: 1. Open or create the Zip file. 2. Choose Split from the Actions menu. 3. Specify the name to be used for the split Zip file. The name must be different from the name of the open Zip file. 4. Specify the size to be used for the individual parts. You can choose from common sizes using the Part size drop-down list or you can specify your own size. To specify your own size, choose "Other size" in the drop-down list and type the desired size in the Other size field. You can specify the size in bytes, kilobytes (KB), or megabytes (MB); indicate which you're using by clicking the appropriate radio button. The minimum size allowed is 65,536 bytes (64KB). 5. Click OK to create the split Zip file. Copyright © 1991-2001 by WinZip Computing, Inc. All rights reserved. Good Hunting! -- Paul aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com where YOU are the search engine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "MScheffler" <mscheffl@twcny.rr.com> To: "Paul Smith" <prsmith@houston.rr.com>; <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: Sending Email backups > Email backups or gedcoms may work fine for smaller > databases, but my FO database has 8+ mg and my gedcom about > 20 mg. I don't know the current size limitations for > attachments for most ISPs, but I am assuming both of mine > are way too large. When I had my dialup ISP, the limitation > was approximately the size of one floppy disk. > > Margaret Scheffler > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Smith" <prsmith@houston.rr.com> > > > But are still not as reliable or as safe as backups or > gedcoms attached to emails sent to, and checked by, > relatives or fellow researchers or stored at work. Why > would you want to spend money on CDs, diskettes, etc. when > emails are free and provide better protection? > > Good Hunting! -- Paul > >

> Especially on a list that is SOPPOSED to be > dedicated to Family Origins! Oops! I knew that was coming <g>. Good Hunting! -- Paul aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com where YOU are the search engine.

> I lost lots of stuff - particularly my address book when we installed > this one). You've gotten some good ideas already, let me address specifically the address book issue. If you're using Outlook Express, you can export and import your address book ('File' 'Export' or 'Import' 'Address Book') or under Outlook it would be 'File' 'Import and Export' 'Export to a personal folder file (.pst)' 'Contacts'. You can also export your Internet Explorer favorites list - 'File' 'Import and Export' 'Export Favorites'. Most programs have some kind of backup or export facility to prevent the loss of data. If you have a program such as a checkbook program, household inventory, important papers database, genealogy contacts spreadsheet, etc., you should familiarize yourself with the backup system for each program and then do backups just as you do for FOW. In every case, detailed instructions are available in the Help section of the program. If you're going to take the time to put in your valuable date, take the additional time to find out how to protect it. Finally, I learned the hard way that spreading your files all over your hard drive is a sure way to lose some of them in a disaster or an upgrade. I ALWAYS put every saved file in the same place - a folder under My Documents. As I said, I have my old hard drive installed as drive d: and I follow the same rule - every file written to my backup drive goes into d:\My Documents\ Most programs allow you to change the default path settings and it's the first thing I look for when I install a new program. I am luckier than most, I have a computer at work and a remote connection. Periodically, I open the remote connection from home and then simply copy my entire My Documents folder to my work system. It's quick, easy and I KNOW my data is protected. While this may not work for everyone, it is possible to set up such sharing with close relatives and you can back up on each others' systems simply by coping directories back and forth. Good Hunting! -- Paul aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com where YOU are the search engine.

At the risk of sounding techy, I will suggest two approaches. Both will use a lot of backups to another media. I have not lost a byte in several years (I have lost hard drives). It can be time consuming to make these backups. For example, my old system may take 8 hours to complete a full backup cycle of 18GB. I just run it over the night so it really doesn't bother me that much. That is what computers are for, to be working while I am sleeping! On my primary system which is old (over 7 years old) and ready to die, I have always made a full tape backup each month and almost daily incremental. The backups keep a current copy of my windows registry as well as any data files. I also do a full compare after each backup because I don't trust the tape. The full backup is essential for recovery of many programs (I don't think it is necessary for Family Origins, bless there trusting license). I have two hard drives on my old system with three operating system versions (two NT and one W2K). My genealogy and picture files are backed up to the other hard drive as another level of precaution. The full backup gives me the ability to come back regardless of the catastrophe. I am currently using the OnStream tape backup hardware and software which can be inexpensive on eBay. I just bought three tapes for $30. If you just once try to recreate your OS environment and loaded applications (including all those pesky licenses) you will appreciate the full backup. I have racks of CD and some of the special drivers I found years ago. If I had to start from scratch (the original CDs) I wouldn't be a happy camper! On my laptop, which is a very recent purchase, I am taking advantage of the new USB 2.0 interface and an external hard drive. I use the BusLink USB 2.0 40GB drive and use Microsoft's standard backup software that comes with W2K. After rebates the external hard drive only cost me $100, which was cheap compared to tape backup. I have backed up the entire laptop drive (about 8GB of OS, data, and applications) on to the external BusLink drive in about 15 minutes. The W2K Microsoft backup will capture the Windows registry during the backup. I think the Windows XP will do the same thing. I did have to breakup the backup into three separate passes because you can only write a 4GB file on the external hard drive. The BusLink external hard drive was cheaper than the tape backup, but it really requires a USB 2.0 interface. A USB 1.0 interface will be 10 times slower. I hope this helps. The basic philosophy is I never know where the failure is going to occur so a full logical file backup is my security blanket. It provides me with the flexibility to accommodate a restore when I least anticipate the need for it. With it, I can recreate the environment on any new hard drive media that is appropriately partitioned. By the way ghosting (using Norton Ghost, DriveCopy, etc.) will not necessarily work. They require the same drive as the drive the backup was made from. It is hard to find a 20GB drive these day; but if your machine was three years old or older, that is probably the size of drive you are working on. That is because ghosting is an exact copy of the hard drive image, not the files that are on your hard drive. You have to put the ghost copy back onto the same drive with the same format (FAT, FAT32, NTFS). It is a limitation I feel uncomfortable with when I don't know when the failure will occur. -----Original Message----- From: Varick [mailto:tallygators@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 5:19 AM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [FO] CPU replacement We are replacing the CPU on this computer (just got this one in July and I lost lots of stuff - particularly my address book when we installed this one). The one thing I am most careful about is my FO - that is the first thing I "transfer" and it made the move much more gracefully than did I. Please, kind computer experts and others, how do you manage to make the move and not lose anything? Floreda ______________________________

I think that the information in the help menu and/or the ReadMe file for the CD-R or CD RW software would probably be more appropriate than anything you read on this list. I have Adaptec software for this purpose and it explains the procedure quite well. After doing some packet writing, when you choose to eject the CD, you are warned that the disk will not be readable by CD rom drives unless you 'Finalize' it. This software has a date of Jan 18, 2000, so it is nearly 3 years old, so I would imagine the newer releases are more sophisticated, but still explain things better than any of us ammeters can. Especially on a list that is SOPPOSED to be dedicated to Family Origins! If at first you don't succeed, Read the instructions! Alfred D. Eller Family-Origins-Users-admin@RootsWeb.com FOW fact diagnostic tool, using Excel Spreadsheet http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/FOFacts.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen Siebold" <edalsie@nycap.rr.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [FO] Re: Jonny come lately--sorry > If "I" understand it all. . . > > CD-R back ups are fine as long as you write once and leave it. No packet > writing. I use this for back-ups for my word-processing information, for > archiving photos and graphics with no problems. I've passed my digital > photos to other members of the family just fine. > > CD-RW back ups are the problem it would appear -- but only if you use packet > writing -- that is if you intend to use the CD-RW to add additional > information along the way. > > If you back-up once and don't intend to re-use the CD then you are okay. > They are cheap enough that this is very practical. > > Just stay away from multi-use CD-RW disks and you'll be fine. > > That is, if I've heard and synthesized all this properly myself. > > Allen >

> They are replacing the tower which I assume means "the whole thing". Make SURE that they install your old hard drive either as a slave on your primary channel or as a master on your secondary IDE channel in your new system. > I am computer-challenged. At age 78 I do not have a peer group I can > talk to about such things. Of course you do, us! (At least so long as Alfred allows some leeway <g>). Otherwise, there are other forums that deal specifically with computers, upgrades, software, etc. that can provide this type of help. Good Hunting! -- Paul aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com where YOU are the search engine.

But are still not as reliable or as safe as backups or gedcoms attached to emails sent to, and checked by, relatives or fellow researchers or stored at work. Why would you want to spend money on CDs, diskettes, etc. when emails are free and provide better protection? Good Hunting! -- Paul aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com where YOU are the search engine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Ragels" <jragels@comcast.net> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [FO] Re: Jonny come lately--sorry > CDRW work fine - most of the time. CDR work fine - almost all of the time. > > I have used floppies, tapes, zips, CDRW, and CDR for backup. In this > day and time, I use only CDR for long term storage. I believe any of > the other mediums are still fine for short term or specific storage. > > The sad ending to this story is to reach for something you thought was > secure and find out it wasn't. CDR are just more reliable. > > J > > Stinylouroy@aol.com wrote: > > I just began to absorb the discussion on CD-RW 's. It sounds as if it is not > > realistic to feel safe on backing up to a CD-RW. What is the best way to > > back up FO information? I have 'burned' photos into CD-RW and read them on > > my regular CD drive OK, also I have sent them to family. I am missing > > something here, what is it? I really am not too computer literate. My PHD > > is the "push here dummy" sort. > > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > > FAMILY ORIGINS - Ordering, UPDATES, books, FAQ, FREE DEMO, Newsletter, etc. http://formalsoft.com For the 8.03 and 9.02 PATCHES and what they fix, go to: http://formalsoft.com/files.htm > > > > > > > -- > Joyce Ragels > Tucson Arizona USA > > Let us so live that when we come to die > even the undertaker will be sorry. > - Mark Twain > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ > Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/ >

My turn to get picky <g>. CPU and computer are technically interchangeable terms since the CPU does the computing, it is the computer. Course without the supporting hardware like motherboard, memory, BIOS chip, power supply, etc., it is little more than modified sand. Every thing else together constitutes a computer SYSTEM. To the original complaint, however, you can change virtually everything in a computer system and not lose a bit of data EXCEPT the hard drive (assuming that the individual who does the installation has the knowledge and tools to make the old hard drive work with the "new" system. If the hard drive is replaced, the new drive will not have any data on it and you will have to install programs, restore backups, fiddle with all the settings, etc. to get back to "normal" operation. That said, there are programs, like Power Quest's Drive Image, that will take a copy of your existing (small) drive and put it on a new, large drive. That's the way to go but I HIGHLY recommend that you get someone familiar with the program to do the copy. Finally, I always install my old hard drive as a second drive in my system when I upgrade. That does two things. It gives you access to files and folders you might have missed and it gives you a quick place to do a backup in case your primary hard drive crashes. For the first thirty days or so, you are much more likely to lose a new hard drive than one that has been in service and reliable for a couple years. Good Hunting! -- Paul aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com where YOU are the search engine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred Eller" <adeller@santel.net> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [FO] CPU replacement > Now, I am going to get picky. > > The CPU is the Central Processing Unit, It is the most expensive chip > on the mother board inside the computer case. The power supply, > motherboard, hard drive, floppy drive, sound card and video card, > modem, network adapter and probably a CD drive or two are installed in > the computer case. That is the computer. It is not the hard drive or > the CPU, it is the computer. The keyboard and the monitor are just > computer peripherals, like the printer, scanner and speakers, but, in > my opinion, a little more important. > > > Alfred D. Eller > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ > ===================================== > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joyce Ragels" <jragels@comcast.net> > To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 10:43 AM > Subject: Re: [FO] CPU replacement > > > > I know, but if a person was just replacing the CPU there should not > be > > any loss of anything. > > > > We should all think of the CPU (Computer Processing Unit) as the box > or > > outer covering of the other stuff. > > > > Being picky is how new terms are learned. You were not wrong in > > pointing that out. > > > > J > > > > Henry Terhune wrote: > > > Not trying to be picky but... a CPU is not the hard drive. > > > > > > > > >>Varick wrote: > > >> > > >>>We are replacing the CPU on this computer (just got this one in > July and > > >>>I lost lots of stuff - particularly my address book when we > installed > > >>>this one). > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>Floreda > > >>> > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm > basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ >

If "I" understand it all. . . CD-R back ups are fine as long as you write once and leave it. No packet writing. I use this for back-ups for my word-processing information, for archiving photos and graphics with no problems. I've passed my digital photos to other members of the family just fine. CD-RW back ups are the problem it would appear -- but only if you use packet writing -- that is if you intend to use the CD-RW to add additional information along the way. If you back-up once and don't intend to re-use the CD then you are okay. They are cheap enough that this is very practical. Just stay away from multi-use CD-RW disks and you'll be fine. That is, if I've heard and synthesized all this properly myself. Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: <Stinylouroy@aol.com> To: <> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:58 AM Subject: [FO] Re: Jonny come lately--sorry > I just began to absorb the discussion on CD-RW 's. It sounds as if it is not > realistic to feel safe on backing up to a CD-RW. What is the best way to > back up FO information? I have 'burned' photos into CD-RW and read them on > my regular CD drive OK, also I have sent them to family. I am missing > something here, what is it? I really am not too computer literate. My PHD > is the "push here dummy" sort. > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > FAMILY ORIGINS - Ordering, UPDATES, books, FAQ, FREE DEMO, Newsletter, etc. http://formalsoft.com For the 8.03 and 9.02 PATCHES and what they fix, go to: http://formalsoft.com/files.htm >

I personally like the Idea of getting another hard drive and installing it as a SLAVE Drive. Utilizing this drive for all photos, and important file backups. All my files are in their respective directories/Folders, inside the C:\My Documents folder/Directory on Both Drives, D:\My Documents\ Thanks Alfred for allowing me to put my two cents into the discussion. Happy New Year Everyone!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY!!! Jim Mahan --- http://james.mahan.tripod.com --- http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?db=jrmahan --- http://mahanscadsolutions.com --- "WE WILL NOT WAIVER, WE WILL NOT TIRE, WE WILL NOT FALTER; --- AND WE WILL NOT FAIL. PEACE AND FREEDOM WILL PREVAIL." --- --- President GEORGE W. BUSH --- "ALL INCOMING AND OUTGOING E-MAIL IS SCANNED WITH NORTON ANTI-VIRUS"