Help!!! Can't find backup

I always back up my Money acount to my thumb drive...

I screwed up and had to wipe clean and reload windows

I then reloaded money 04.

Now how do I restore from the backup???

Thank You for all help offered...

Jim

Cal
Thu Aug 31 11:52:09 CDT 2006

In microsoft.public.money, jba@jbaz.com wrote:

>I always back up my Money acount to my thumb drive...
>
>I screwed up and had to wipe clean and reload windows
>
>I then reloaded money 04.
>
>Now how do I restore from the backup???
>
>Thank You for all help offered...

Copy the *.mbf file from your flash drive to your MyDocuments
folder. You could then, from Windows Explorer, double-click that
*.mbf file. During the restore you will be asked if you should
choose the default location to restore to. Choose instead to Browse
to your MyDocuments folder and choose a name.

jba
Thu Aug 31 13:04:27 CDT 2006


O.K., that worked!!! You have no idea how much better I feel now,
having not been breathing hardly at all for the last 2 hours.. I
thought I had lost everything...

Now a different problem, when I try to back up the file at the end to
the thumb drive in E it doesn't back it up and,,, and,,, it is saving
the file on the desktop and not in My Documents..

What have I missed??

Thank You again for all help offered..

Jim Andrews Columbus/Phoenix




Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:52:09 -0500, Cal Learner-- MVP
<via_newsgroup@please.tnx> wrote:

>In microsoft.public.money, jba@jbaz.com wrote:
>
>>I always back up my Money acount to my thumb drive...
>>
>>I screwed up and had to wipe clean and reload windows
>>
>>I then reloaded money 04.
>>
>>Now how do I restore from the backup???
>>
>>Thank You for all help offered...
>
>Copy the *.mbf file from your flash drive to your MyDocuments
>folder. You could then, from Windows Explorer, double-click that
>*.mbf file. During the restore you will be asked if you should
>choose the default location to restore to. Choose instead to Browse
>to your MyDocuments folder and choose a name.

Cal
Thu Aug 31 13:21:44 CDT 2006

In microsoft.public.money, jba@jbaz.com wrote:

>
>O.K., that worked!!! You have no idea how much better I feel now,
>having not been breathing hardly at all for the last 2 hours.. I
>thought I had lost everything...

Cool. You should consider additional backups. While flash drives are
probably the most reliable common storage, they could fail, or you
could inadvertently overwrite a good backup. You might want to burn
a copy to CD once per month, and put a CD in off-site storage every
several months if you want to do disaster planning.


>
>Now a different problem, when I try to back up the file at the end to
>the thumb drive in E it doesn't back it up and,,, and,,, it is saving
>the file on the desktop and not in My Documents..
>
>What have I missed??

Make sure the flash drive is plugged in. If this is
manually-triggered in Money 2004, File->Backup and choose
BackUpToFloppy.

If this is the scheduled one, in Tools->Options->Backup you want the
"floppy" choice to point to the flash drive.

Money 2007 has improved backup in that it will keep more than one
backup (with the date as part of the filename) on the hard drive as
well as the flash drive.