Hello Laura and all, I ran into this problem before I bought my Zip drive several years ago. There are all kinds of ways to get around a "sick 'puter" or if you don't have a Zip drive or WinZip to compress your file to a smaller size. Here's one I found works: Do you have Word or WordPad (available if you're working on a Windows system)? If so, open the gedcom in one of these. It should open as a plain text document which will have "0 Head" or something similar as the first line. Then cut (or copy) and paste smaller parts into new documents (each less than 1MB if you're using 1.4 MG floppy disks), saving each one, numbering it to keep track of the order so you can put it all back together again in one document after you've reformatted your hard drive and all software is reinstalled. Then after your computer is back up and running the way you want, re-assemble the larger document, save with the "ged" extension, open your genealogy program, finally opening the file there. It should read back in just fine. Hope this helps, Diane Green ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ E-mail: DPGreen@prodigy.net AOL IM Nick: MaMaRootz WebPage: http://pages.prodigy.net/greentrucking/ "My worth to God in public is what I am in private." --Oswald Chambers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: Laura Miller <slssmiller@netzero.net> To: <GenTips-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 5:23 PM Subject: [GT] Backing up a file Family Tree Maker > My hard drive is going to have to be restored. I am trying to save to > floppy all of the files I have. > > I have successfully saved all of my GEDCOM files except my largest > one... I get an error message that the file is too large and I should > try to save it to a larger formatted diskette. > > I tried uploading the GEDCOM to RootsWeb, just to save it there until > I get the new hard drive, but I got a message that the upload was > unsuccessful (I tried this twice). > > Does anyone know how to split the GEDCOM to smaller parts, so I can > save each part and then put them back together when I can? Or are > there any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance for your advice... Laura Miller > > > ____________NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_________ > Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > Request a CDROM 1-800-333-3633 > ___________________________________________________________ >