Dear Folks, Today I was working hard on putting my stories into some semblance of order. I finally got the stories in one category (the 1930s) in numerical order and then transferred them out of the "edited" folder into to the general file folder "1930." Included was the sub-file folder regarding my father's trip to France in 1938. After all of them had been transferred, I deleted the edited folder including my father's trip to France. Sounds OK, doesn't it? WRONG!! When I checked what had been transferred to the general folder 1930, Daddy's trip was missing! Oh good grief, I had deleted it and I couldn't retrieve it! It wasn't as if it was a single short document, it was 17 pages long. My only bit of luck was that I had printed the whole thing out and at least I could scan it with my OCR program and with effort, put it back together again. Yes, that was my only hope. With that I walked away from my computer and fixed my dinner. I was still concerned about the time it would take for me to put the story back together again when a light bulb went off over my head. Some time ago I was diligent in backing up all my stories on to my hard disk. Oh be still my heart, do you suppose I had backed it up there?? I couldn't wait to get back to my computer and check out my hard drive and guess what? It was there in one complete document already edited and ready to go! I don't know how many times I've thanked God over finding it backed up but after I stopped jumping up and down with joy and dancing my special Victory Dance, I made certain that all of my stories are now properly backed up on to my hard disk. Yes, we've all learned to back up all of our important documents. We learned that back in Computer 101. But some of us have gotten a bit lazy and forget to back them up. But guess what? I have an idea I won't forget to do that for some time to come. vee