If Margaret, David, and Wayne were unable to help. How about Alfred or Bruce. If they can't help you, Enjoy upgrading to Roots Magic and Start Typing. Good luck. Did the scan disk of your floppies work Marge??? I'll be Praying!!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY!!! Jim Mahan --- http://james.mahan.tripod.com --- http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jrmahan --- http://wc.rootsweb.com/~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" ----- Original Message ----- From: "MScheffler" <mscheffl@twcny.rr.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 8:06 PM Subject: [FO] Unrestorable backup files > Hi Marge and others interested, > > Marge emailed me her FOWIN6 backup files so that I could > try restoring them on another computer. > > I installed FOWIN6 and tried to restore the two > databases on a Windows 98 computer, and got the Dynazip > error message. I have Winzip so then tried using it to > unzip the files to a directory C:\FO6\data. Unfortunately > for both files I got the message that the zip file is empty. > > I then tried to restore the FO6 presumably zip files to > FO10 on an XP computer and received the message the file did > not contain a Family Origins backup. > > I could be mistaken, but I interpret this to mean the > file was never backed up to the disk. It could be that the > backup went up to the hard drive instead of the floppy or > perhaps more likely the problem was with the floppy or > perhaps some other problem with the computer. It seems > strange, however, that there are named files that are empty. > If one had backed up accidentally to the hard disk, I would > think that you should have no named files on the floppy. > Clicking on properties, each file is 2 kb. > > Does anyone else have a suggestion for Marge? > > Margaret Scheffler > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MAHowes678130736@aol.com> > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > The "Family Origins® Wish List" http://formalsoft.com/wishlist.htm > ??? FAQ ??? -- http://www.graabek.com/fow/fofaq.html > >