Stephen D. Carlile wrote: > I can use a word processor, email, and do some research on Ancestry.com, but > in most other respects I am computer illiterate. My son just built me a new > computer and put Windows 7 on it. I had been using XP for the last several > years. He saved my PAF5 and other files on a thumb drive. I have a back up > on a Zip File or Disc. > > I now want to transfer my PAF files from the thumb drive to my new computer, > the C drive, and expect that this may be more complicated than copying the > files from one thing to the other. I also know that I may encounter some > other problems, since there is more than one file on my thumb drive related > to PAF, and I do not know exactly which files I need to transfer and do not > know, other than they are going into the C drive, exactly what to name the > files, or where to put copy them to. > > I am thinking that maybe I can just download another fresh version of PAF5 > on my new computer, and then transfer just the data from my thumb drive and > not worry about transferring the PAF5 system or executive files (????). > > I was hoping that if I just download the fresh unused version of PAF5, I > could then export or import the information in my tree from my thumbdrive to > the C drive. > > All of this is making my head swim. > > Can someone give me some suggestions on the easiest or best way to do this > without me losing any data? Thank you very much. > > One more thing, do I need to click, turn on, turn off anything in my > computer or the PAF files in order to make the program work efficiently in > Windows 7? Thanks again. (GBG) All the suggestions so far will work, but the easy one hasn't been mentioned: Call your son back and say, put PAF on this thing and make it work with these files, and I'll buy you a steak dinner. Seriously, in this case, d/l and install PAF, then simply COPY any file on your thumb that ends in .paf or .pal I'm running WIN 7, 32 bit, and PAF works as well as it did on the XP. Cheryl