You can always save to floppies as well, these are workable. You will just have a lot more floppies than you would CD's. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Mabery" <kim@mabery.com> To: <ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [ILGREENE] Family Tree Maker Question > There is a way to do this. But you will have to have a CD-RW disk and a cd > recorder capable of reading and writing to a CD-RWdisk. > > When you copy the FTM file to the CD-RW disk, right click on the file name > and you should see a menu pop-up, go to the properties section of this menu. > You should see some option buttons that show what the file properties are > i.e. Read-Only, Hidden, advanced. Uncheck the Read-Only option by placing > your mouse cursor over the check mark and left clicking your mouse button. > > Once again, this will only work if you have copied the file to a CD-RW disk. > Doing so allow you to append to the file. > > Kim > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Lorlauvan@aol.com> > To: <ILGREENE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:19 AM > Subject: Re: [ILGREENE] Family Tree Maker Question > > > > In a message dated 2/19/2003 6:11:04 PM US Mountain Standard Time, > > SellanaBelle@aol.com writes: > > > > > My question is this: When I copy my FTM Family File to a CD, it copies > in a > > > > > > read only format. That means I cannot work with it. Is there a way I > can > > > copy it to a CD that I will be able to have a working copy? > > > > > > > > > I, too, would like the answer to this question, for I have the same > problem. > > Thank you. > > > > Lorene Vanzant > > Lorlauvan@aol.com > > > > > > ==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== > > Visit the Greene County USGenWeb Homepage! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgreene/green.htm > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== ILGREENE Mailing List ==== > 2,500 Discussion Lists!!! USGenWeb and The USGenWeb Archives! > Special thanks go to RootsWeb. http://www.rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >