Alan You were absolutely correct. I'd forgotten to check the drives. I was successful this time. Thanks to everyone who solved my problem. Pat At 10:22 AM 7/21/2005, Bartretrd@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 7/21/2005 6:44:04 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, >patjw28@earthlink.net writes: >Due to illness, I was away from my genealogy for about four months. I'vr >just started to get interested in it once more. For some reason, I can no >longer back up my file. I've always been able to fit it on one floppy, but >now it doesn't work. I go to File and Backup, file is already there--do you >want to replace it, yes, and in three seconds it comes back with backup >complete. I always check my floppies in the Run command and ask for >directory A and it tells me there is no file. I've reformatted the discs, >used diffferent ones, run check/repair (no problems). I'm very frustrated >at this point and don't know what to do. Can someone help? > >My first guess is that somehow the place where the backup is saved has >been changed from the A: drive to some other place. When you tell PAF to >backup your data and the little screen comes up with the name of the file >you want backed up, look at the top of the screen and see where the file >is going. I suspect it is being saved to the hard drive (C:) instead of >to the A: drive. Go to tools, preferences, folders and see where it says >the file is going. If you want it to go to A: then type A:\ in the backup >block. (I save my backups to the F: drive which is my USB memory stick) >Alan B.