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More info?)
HotRod wrote:
> OK the real problem here is that I have a user who is 75 that has used
> Quicken for a long time, she use to back everything up to multiple
> floppy disks. I've tried to talk and walk her through burning them to CD
> but
> since this is something totally new she is getting frustrated with the
> multiple steps involved instead of going back to floppies.
Kevin wrote
> If she is not willing to simply use the Windows CD Writing Wizard to
> burn the Quicken files, she can then purchase a new version of Quicken
> 2005
> and it will have CD burning as a backup option from the get-go.
shakey wrote
> Yes and no: It will save to the temporary cd burning file which then must
> be saved to CD. XP complicates life by not allowing direct saves.
Kevin wrote:
> Really? I have Quicken Deluxe 2005, but I save my Quicken data to a Zip
> drive by simply choosing the drive from the Backup Quicken Data applet.
> It
> writes to the Zip drive with no problem. I have never used the backup
> option of burning to a CD, which is given in the backup applet, so I am
> not
> familiar with the steps required to do so. I can't see how it could be
> that
> complicated. Why can't she just use Windows Explorer to select the
> Quicken
> data files and then burn them to a CD-RW? Sure, the disk may have to be
> formatted first to allow for multiple sessions, but you can't have
> everything. The process is not that much more involved than saving to any
> other media type.
Quicken now includes CD Packet Writing software (Like that in Roxio/Nero?)
Amazing. Although I don't see that on their web page. heh
If you want to read up on what you can and cannot do with CD/CD-RWs in XP
(natively) - I suggest here:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm
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