Backup help needed

Posted by Gene on September 24, 2006, 8:08 am

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I am brand new at quickbooks, and I am using the SimpleStart Version.
My Problem is, when I try to backup my work, it tries to default me to
my hard drive, when I really want to put the info on my CD drive E. I
use the browse option, select Drive E, and I have put a disc in the
drive. But, when I select the backup option, it keeps defaulting me
back to my C drive and asking if I want to do an online backup, rather
than backup to my C drive, which I dont. What the heck am I dong wrong
here? Thanks in advance for helping this old codger! Gene

Posted by HeyBub on September 24, 2006, 10:32 am

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Gene wrote:

> I am brand new at quickbooks, and I am using the SimpleStart Version.

> My Problem is, when I try to backup my work, it tries to default me to

> my hard drive, when I really want to put the info on my CD drive E. I

> use the browse option, select Drive E, and I have put a disc in the

> drive. But, when I select the backup option, it keeps defaulting me

> back to my C drive and asking if I want to do an online backup, rather

> than backup to my C drive, which I dont. What the heck am I dong wrong

> here? Thanks in advance for helping this old codger! Gene

You cannot backup to a CD.

You must first backup to the hard drive then copy the result to the CD. Even
then, you may have problems unless you use a bit of software designed to do
packet writing (e.g., Nero). The alleged capacity to create a CD from within
Windows XP is primitive at best.

Neither Windows nor QB has any native capacity to write to a CD.

Posted by Barnabas Collins on September 24, 2006, 11:05 am

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wrote:

>Gene wrote:

>> I am brand new at quickbooks, and I am using the SimpleStart Version.

>> My Problem is, when I try to backup my work, it tries to default me to

>> my hard drive, when I really want to put the info on my CD drive E. I

>> use the browse option, select Drive E, and I have put a disc in the

>> drive. But, when I select the backup option, it keeps defaulting me

>> back to my C drive and asking if I want to do an online backup, rather

>> than backup to my C drive, which I dont. What the heck am I dong wrong

>> here? Thanks in advance for helping this old codger! Gene

>You cannot backup to a CD.

>You must first backup to the hard drive then copy the result to the CD. Even

>then, you may have problems unless you use a bit of software designed to do

>packet writing (e.g., Nero). The alleged capacity to create a CD from within

>Windows XP is primitive at best.

>Neither Windows nor QB has any native capacity to write to a CD.

I don't back up from within Quickbooks. Rather I go outside of
quickbooks and copy the entire Quickbooks data file to two zip disks,
two USB drives, and periodically burn to CD.

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