To all the kind folk who have waded in and used all their vast resources to try and locate the answer to my posting, thank you so much one and allJ Sorry to be away for a wee while but I had a hard drive failure and although I had everything backed up nicely occurrences like this always change something that needs considerable attention it seems.. During this downtime I heard that some computer motherboards have a process called "Raid" available on them and I am now considering the purchase of a new PC so I can utilise this technology usually used by commercial ventures but fits well for Genealogists work I feel. With the raid process available one simply asked the computer repair folk to install a second internal hard drive of the same size as your main hard drive and set up the process so and from then on all activity on your main drive is completely duplicated onto the second drive giving you a real time backup process. Food for thoughtJ I will be responding to all who emailed directly as I get to your messages, sorry for the delay. Cheers Jim Patterson