LaVerne, You seem to be a new PAF user, who is exploring the program and trying to understand how it works. The default Template is not the source of your problems. It is the set of data fields you use when you edit an individual or marriage. (Full Name:, Sex:, Birth:, etc) You can't get rid of it, as it is a part of the program that you use each time you do an edit. (Some advanced PAF users create custom templates.) How are you trying to add a backup file? Backup files can only be Restored. (If you restore a backup file to a location that already has a file of that name, Windows will replace the existing file with a new PAF file created from the backup. That seems to be the situation you are describing.) I give each backup a unique name to prevent them from accidentally replacing a file I want to keep. I restore PAF files from a flash drive quite frequently and find that it works well, so long as I wait to get permission from Windows before unplugging the flash drive. Note that your data is saved by PAF each time you click Save to add data. It looks like you are trying to use Backup as a File Save command. Backup has a different purpose, in that it creates an emergency backup of the file. If you just work in PAF normally, and leave your file OPEN when you exit PAF, your file will automatically open the next time you start PAF. Just try it! No data is lost. You can just carry on from where you left off. The working copy of my main PAF file is in Windows MyDocuments folder, but I have backups on 3 flash drives, some CDs, and an online account ... just in case! A frequent problem when people are making gedcoms from PAF is that they don't realize Windows won't allow them to use an asterisk ( * ) in a file name. So JonesFamily*.ged is NOT allowed by Windows, but JonesFamily.ged IS allowed. Another frequent problem is that people don't watch the location the gedcom is saved to, so they can't find it and assume that it wasn't created. You will find three good sources of help in PAF's Help menu: Getting Started Guide, User's Guide (198 pages long), and PAF lessons. You can always send email to this forum, where there are hundreds of experienced PAF users who can give you the benefit of their experience. There are thousands of Family History Centers, where you can come in and get free one-on-one help with PAF, and there may be one nearby. (You can search on the home page of www.familysearch.org for the closest one.) So with PAF, there is always plenty of help. I am not exaggerating about the availability of Family History Centers. I live in a rural area of Alberta, Canada where the nearest city has a population of less than 20,000 yet there are at least 3 FHCs within an hour's drive of my house. I hope this is helpful. If not, there are lots of other people who can help. Bill Buchanan > How do I get read of the Default (Read only) in the Templates section. I don't remember putting it there. But when I try to add a backup file from my flash drive it will only give me a read only file. > > Now I can only get a temporary file -read only- of the file I backed up ealier today. > > And I can't seem to make a gedcom on either a flash drive or a floppy. I would like to update my files on World Connect. > > LaVerne