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Backing Up My Files?

Posted By: Michelle Nightengale <Director@NOSPAMeCommunicationsInstitute.com>
Saturday, 19 August 2006, at 6:13 p.m.

Hi All,

Ok, I know this is terrible of me, but I don't regularly back up my files. As I working on my writing business, I know I could be in a WORLD of hurt if my computer crashes for whatever reason.

But I'm having trouble backing up my files. I bought a 10-pack of generic writable CD's from Office Depot. They are Office Depot-brand CD's. I want to copy everything from the My Documents folder to the CD. I store everything of any consequence there.

Trouble is, the folder's too big to put on the CD. Ok, I can go through and pick and choose what to put on the CD. No problem.

BUT...

I know we're supposed to back up every day. The problem is, I need to overwrite the files every day -- I don't need multiple copies of the same documents. Only, it won't let me overwrite them. It just adds the edited documents to the CD. So if I'm working on a business proposal document and I edit it, I end up with two proposal documents: the original and the edited version.

Arrgggh!

It won't let me delete the files once I've added them either. It only lets me add to the CD until it's full.

I was just going through the My Documents folder and there is a TON of stuff there. I need all of it, though some things I'm not using right now.

So can someone explain how to back up files and documents? I need to be able delete unnecessary files and folders from the CD and overwrite current documents with the edited and updated versions.

Did I buy the wrong CD's? Am I not formatting it correctly since it puts the documents on there as read-only files and then it doesn't let me delete them from the CD? Or edit them? I don't need a ton of CD's with different versions of My Documents on them strewn all over my desk.

BTW, I have Windows XP Home Edition. Per instructions I found on Microsoft's Web site, I open up My Computer from my desktop, right-click on My Documents and click on the disk drive E from the pop-up menu and click "Copy."

Then I go into that drive, select the folder and then select "Copy these files to disk" from the drop-down list on the left-hand side.

I'm NOT a techie at all, but I'm not stupid either. Saving a document, file or folder should be no different than saving it on my hard drive. but somehow, this is NOT working. Help!

Thanks!

Michelle

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