Emery Try checking the USB drive by going to MY COMPUTER and making your flash drive is listed. If listed see how much space it shows on it. Take a file and copy it to that drive. If that works than go to RootsMagic and go to File/ Backup. Select the flash drive to use as your back up and a folder if needed. Click backup. hen completed go to the flash drive and open the folder if you used one. our backup should be there with today's date as part of the extension. If in the above process no space remains on the flash drive; select another. On older computer and some flash drives, you cannot remove them without using the "Safely Remove Hardware" button. Not using this button will lock the flash drive or the USB port or both. If this occurs a reboot MIGHT reset IT/THEM; However if the reset doesn't work, a TECH would be required. As CD It must be a R/W (READ/WRITE) with space remaining and not "CLOSED". Closing a R/W CD will effectively prevent additional writing to that CD. Also your CD drive must be a R/W drive as well. Hope this helps you or someone else. I have gone thru this myself, but may have missed something in my explanation. Best method if you are unsure is to use the File/Backup and backup to a folder on the desktop. You can copy the backup to either one of these other locations if all is ok there and then remove from desktop if needed. Jon On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Emery St Cyr via < [email protected]> wrote: > Ok, I tried a different usb port and still the data recently added data > will > not move to the flash drive. When you click to back up you can see the > light > flash on the drive but nothing shows up on it. > Any think else that I can try? > Em > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emery St Cyr > via > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 2:27 PM > To: 'MScheffler'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [RMagic] can't backup to cd or flash drive > > Margret. I did try a different flash drive but have not tried a different > usb port. I'll give that a go. thanks Em > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MScheffler via > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 9:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [RMagic] can't backup to cd or flash drive > > Hi Em, > > I back up to my hard drive and a flash drive everyday without problems. > Did > you try with a second flash drive or put the flash drive in a different usb > slot? > > There must be some quirk with the computer you are using. I have not tried > a cd in years, so cannot comment on that process. > > Margaret > > -----Original Message----- > From: Emery St Cyr via > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 8:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RMagic] can't backup to cd or flash drive > > I don't know what happened but I have tried RM to go, a CD, and a flash > drive and nothing transfers to the flash drive (new data just added) > > On the RM to go I get an error that says something is wrong-What, they > don't say. > > And to a cd burner I get a message that says there is an error on SQL and > it > won't let me proceed. > > When I talked to RM a few months ago about a similar problem she said that > she would set me up to do my backups to my flash drive. And I saw on the > screen when I went to file and backup that it was going to my F drive which > is where my flash drive is. > > Then I hit back up and it said ok. But when I looked on the flash drive to > see if the new data was on there it was not. > > > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- -- *Jon P Czarowitz*, NHC, GF, GGF, IGC Hempel Genealogist since 1986 Retired International Genealogist for http://www.clancunninghamintl.org RootsMagic 7 http://www.rootsmagic.com CUNNINGHAMS TOGETHER - CUNNINGHAMS WORLDWIDE!