In a message dated 7/22/2005 4:29:24 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, johnburns@telus.net writes: I've been looking at this post for a day and still can't make any sense of it. I just make a backup of my PAF to a floppy disc. Why would you "set up a specific folder for your back-up files"? John I have the same question. I would never make a backup to my hard drive. The reason you backup your file is in case something happens to your hard drive. I agree that a sequence of backups is good, but not to your hard drive. Since my file started taking more than one floppy, I have used USB memory sticks for my rotation of backups. They are pretty cheap now, hold more data and are as easy to use as floppies (and so far they have not failed as floppies often do). Alan B.