Automatic Investment Backup

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Hi Mark,

I've recently upgrade to FM7. With previous versions I used the 'Automatic Investment Backup' to copy '*.dat' investment files to a removable media, so I was pleased to see that *.mm4 portfolio files would also be backed-up with FM7.

However, with FM7, I no longer get an exact copy of the data files located in the 'My_Data' directory. My backup media's directory now contains old 'filename.dat', 'portfolio.mm4' and new 'portfolio_filename.dat' files.

The fact that I only backup these files in case of a hard drive failure, why do the '*.dat' filenames differ between my active and backup directories? It would make more sense to me if contents of both directories would be the same.

In the case of a hard drive failure, how would I restore the data?

Alternatively, I could manually backup the 'My_Data' directory but this seems like a step backwards when considering how FM6 auto-backup worked for me in the past.

I would appreciate your comments.

Clive

Replies:

• Re: Automatic Investment Backup Mark 19:24:40 02/12/06 (2)
  • Re: Automatic Investment Backup Clive 15:34:53 02/13/06 (1)
    • Re: Automatic Investment Backup Mark 16:08:10 02/13/06 (0)