When I started to have this problem a couple years ago, I started the practice of exporting to gedcom as a backup and zipping the resulting ged file for storage. This has worked well for me. Linda --- Jerry Bryan <c24m48@hotmail.com> wrote: > >Therefore, to me at least, it seems to be a disk-spanning problem. > >Whether the problem is in creating it on the desktop or in reading > it > >on the laptop I don't know. I tried to extract the files using > WinZip > >to narrow it down further but WinZip requires an Add-on to extract > >disk-spanned files. > > My copy of Winzip handles disk-spanned files out of box, as it were, > with no > need for an Add-on. > > I think what you are seeing is simply the inherent unreliability of > floppies. If there's an error for every million bytes (for example), > then > the more data you have the more likely you are to encounter the > problem. > > I finally gave up on floppies and switched to zip drives when my > database > went to three floppies and I could not reliably backup and restore > that much > data to floppies. I bought all new floppies, reformatted them, etc., > all to > no avail. I was always suspicious that one of the floppy drives on > one of > my three machines I was using was faulty, but I could never find a > pattern > in which machine the backups were created on vs. which machine > couldn't read > them. I got the point of verifying the backups immediately after > making > them, but still I often could not read them even then. > > Jerry Bryan > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup > > > ==== 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/ > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com