Backup

[John]

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When I make a backup of Microsoft Money on a floppy disk.
I started to wonder if this floppy could hold all this
data. I then installed Microsoft Money on another
computer of mine. Used the floppy disk with the backup
and to my surprise, Money tells me this is a corrupt or
not a Money backup file??
What gives here? Please help.
BTW, my orginal computer is on its last legs. I can't
afford to lose all my information.

 

[Peter Wilkins]

Sorry, I couldn't post this message on Application
Compatibility.
When I make a backup of Microsoft Money on a floppy disk.
I started to wonder if this floppy could hold all this
data. I then installed Microsoft Money on another
computer of mine. Used the floppy disk with the backup
and to my surprise, Money tells me this is a corrupt or
not a Money backup file??
What gives here? Please help.
BTW, my orginal computer is on its last legs. I can't
afford to lose all my information.

Try to read the floppy in Money on your old computer - if it doesn't
work there, it was a bad backup - make another backup using another
floppy, and check that it can be read on the old computer before
trying to load it into your new one.

If that doesn't work, perhaps because the data exceeds the floppy size
(but you should have got a warning if so) then interconnect the two
computers in some way (many possibilities exist) and just copy the
data across. If you can't do that, you could even save the backup (or
the actual data files) to HDD on the old computer then email the data
files somewhere then get them sent back to the new computer.