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.