I also have my backups 'off-site' using Dropbox which is free for some amount of space which I have come nowhere near using! I do clear out backups periodically so as not to accumulate too many! That has worked great so far! Pat -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Ronnerud via Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 10:03 PM To: Emery St Cyr; [email protected] Subject: Re: [RMagic] can't backup to cd or flash drive Emery, I would back up off site. I use Mosy. Start up is free unless you have lots of material. The reason for going off site is that you have a hard drive failure, house burns down or your computer gets stolen, etc. your data is safe and can be transfer to another computer. Jim Ronnerud -----Original Message----- From: Emery St Cyr via Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 6:55 PM To: 'Pat McGrath' ; 'Jon Czarowitz' ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [RMagic] can't backup to cd or flash drive Thanks for all who responded. I got some help from RM today and now I think that my next problem is to get the RM togo to work for me. I Am sure much of my problem is that I am trying to do something that you can't do or I am missing something when I watch the video. F I now have my system set up for the backup to go to the flash drive. At the end of each session (day) I put in my fd and do a back up for that day's entries. I was trying to go to my fd and see the new entries and I can't I have to go to RMtogo. That is my next challenge.----------to the videos I go! Em -----Original Message----- From: Pat McGrath [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 7:26 PM To: 'Jon Czarowitz'; [email protected]; 'Emery St Cyr' Subject: RE: [RMagic] can't backup to cd or flash drive Have not been any part of this discussion, but at work when I had to backup a program from my computer to the flash drive, if the flash drive DID NOT have enough room, the error message I got DEFINITELY DID NOT tell me that was the reason I could not back up. Whatever message it was, space or lack thereof, was no part of what it said ..... so hopefully your suggestion Jon will clear up this problem and it will be as simply as a SPACE issue!!!! No reply from anyone or from tech support on my missing items, backup/restore not matching my LATEST or MOST RECENT open file, etc. so hope you will be the one to fix this problem for Emery! Pat -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Czarowitz via Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 5:58 PM To: Emery St Cyr; [email protected] Subject: Re: [RMagic] can't backup to cd or flash drive 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. 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