I would guess that the File System on the Memory Stick is not the same as the one on the Computer. An example is FAT32 on the stick and NTFS on the computer.  Some security and sharing information may not get copied. The solution is to reformat the stick to NTFS and then do the backup. Ed Feustel A Network for Grateful Living WORD FOR THE DAY (December 16, 2017) Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company. Rachel Naomi Remen [VISIT GRATEFULNESS.ORG] On 2018-01-16 17:32, Bruce W Fairhall wrote: > Friends > One of our Sydney TMG User Group members was copying her backup TMG9 > installation file to a USB stick to loan to another user and received > the following pop-up message from Windows: > Are you sure you want to copy this file without its properties? > The file TMG9-5 setup.exe has properties that can't be copied > to this new location. > Following that were the file description, version, size etc. > Does anyone know what causes this possible problem and how can it be > solved? > Thank you > > -- > > Bruce Fairhall > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > 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 >