Re: excel backup question
- From: Alias~- <notever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:54:16 +0200
Cindy wrote:
I hope I'm not being a PAIN, BUT...why is this different then the way I back up quickbooks? I save the quickbooks file to MY DOCUMENTS, and then copy to a cd from by documents. Excel is already in my documents, so why can't I just copy it to a cd? I'm just trying to understand, I'm not being argumentative. ;)
thanks..cindy
I think they're trying to tell you that the native XP burning software isn't always reliable as you have found out. If you don't want to put Nero or Roxio on your computer, you may find it easier to get an external USB hard drive and back up to that instead by using Windows Explorer, no burning software needed and hard drives can hold a lot more data than CDs or DVDs.
Alias
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"Richard Urban" wrote:
Packet writing software treats the CD/DVD as if it were just another hard drive. You can save individual files to the CD/DVD directly from a program. You see all the files in explorer as if it were a hard drive. If using rewritable disks, you can instantly delete a single file from the disk.
It is just so much more convenient for data storage than using what comes with the operating system.
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"Cindy" <Cindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5FACF536-B27E-4032-914E-F80EE69F94F1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI know how to "save" the file to my documents...I'm trying to have a backup
so that if my computer crashes I don't lose all my company info. I didn't
know I'd need a program like "nero" or "Roxio" to do that...I am able to save
my information from quickbooks to MY DOCUMENTS and then burn that to a
CD...I'm not sure what the difference is?
"Richard Urban" wrote:
First, backup is when you take a file that has already been saved and copy
it over to another place. Is this what you are doing, or are you just trying
to "save" the file to that place.
You will need packet writing software installed on your computer to do what
you want.. This is included in both Nero and Roxio burning packages.
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Cindy" <Cindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9A475C71-064F-4B0A-AF70-0C3729358F59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I can't back up my excel files to a cd...I keep getting the message
"windows
encountered a problem when trying to copy this file. What do you want
windows to do?" It does NOT say what the problem is. the size of the
file
is 198kb and I am using windows xp...HELP???
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