Hi Allie, I may be able to help you. When you have your FTM-2014 or other version open, click on the backup under the file tab. Backup location shows as F:\ but at the end of that box you will see a down arrow. Click on that arrow and a drop-down menu is shown with all of your known removable drives. Just click on the one that you want to back up your file onto. This allows you to change the default from F: to your external drive. Cheers, Arnie ------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnold E. Krause 1611 Arlington Ave., Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA, S7H 2Y6 Tel: (306) 374-3348 email address: [email protected] Homepage: http://members.shaw.ca/arnie-krause/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Allie Sent: 03 February, 2014 7:25 PM To: H R Worthington; [email protected] Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Companion Guide Been there done that. -----Original Message----- From: H R Worthington Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 7:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Companion Guide Allie The HELP menu Russ ___________________________ Mailto:[email protected] ________________________________ From: Allie <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 3, 2014 11:16 AM Subject: [FTM-TECH] Companion Guide Have seen this guide mentioned many times on this site. It appears to be a popular source of information and how-to hints. How does one access the Companion Guide on FTM? ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- 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 ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- 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

Thank you Arnie for your offer of help. I am running FTM 2014 on Windows 7 Backup location down arrow only shows one choice and that is F:/ However, I did find a way around it and was able to save the file to G:/ Too tired now to go into details for now. Tomorrow I will try to see if it was saved successfully as I received a message that FTM had shut down perhaps prematurely. Sigh! Allie -----Original Message----- From: Arnie-Krause Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 9:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Companion Guide Hi Allie, I may be able to help you. When you have your FTM-2014 or other version open, click on the backup under the file tab. Backup location shows as F:\ but at the end of that box you will see a down arrow. Click on that arrow and a drop-down menu is shown with all of your known removable drives. Just click on the one that you want to back up your file onto. This allows you to change the default from F: to your external drive. Cheers, Arnie ------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnold E. Krause 1611 Arlington Ave., Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA, S7H 2Y6 Tel: (306) 374-3348 email address: [email protected] Homepage: http://members.shaw.ca/arnie-krause/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Allie Sent: 03 February, 2014 7:25 PM To: H R Worthington; [email protected] Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Companion Guide Been there done that. -----Original Message----- From: H R Worthington Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 7:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Companion Guide Allie The HELP menu Russ ___________________________ Mailto:[email protected] ________________________________ From: Allie <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 3, 2014 11:16 AM Subject: [FTM-TECH] Companion Guide Have seen this guide mentioned many times on this site. It appears to be a popular source of information and how-to hints. How does one access the Companion Guide on FTM? ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- 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 ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- 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 ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- 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