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More info?)
O.K. I create a briefcase within the folder I have the files in on my
desktop which I wish to synchronize and move over to the Laptop, then copy
the files into the Briefcase. But when I try to either copy the files or
the Briefcase of drag and drop into the D: drive which is where my CD is the
message says D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function. By the way I
changed over to a new unused plain CD-R, not rewritable in case that was the
problem.
I will try and work it out from the MS link about Briefcase, I must just be
doing something very stupid!!
Thanks
B.W.
"Richard Goh" <me@mailinator.com> wrote in message
news:OmHDYXsTFHA.1040@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> If you have the option to "pre-format" the CD-RW I think you can put a
> briefcase on it.
> To make a new briefcase, you right click on the disk (or folder) where you
> want the briefcase and choose "new" from the menu and then choose
> briefcase.
> A briefcase is nothing more than a very special folder.
>
> I use the briefcase as a backup tool.
> I sync the files I want to backup on a regular basis to briefcases.
> Then, after updating the briefcase, I copy the contents to a CD. This
> way I don't have to hunt all over the hard drive for the files I want to
> back up.
> By synching a folder, the update always gets all the files in the folder,
> including any new files I have added to the folder.
>
> "B.W." <bwaller@norex.com.auxx (drop the xx)> wrote in message
> news:O862serTFHA.1044@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>I am using XP Home is Briefcase available on it?
>>
>> In the instructions it says before getting started you need to create a
>> Briefcase. The best place to create the Briefcase is on the removable
>> disk
>>
>> (R|W CD is what I planned on using is this O.K.?)
>>
>> I can't seem to find Briefcase to put it on the CD
>>
>> B.W.
>>
>> "Richard Goh" <me@mailinator.com> wrote in message
>> news:uNEv4ErTFHA.4056@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>> You are reading it wrong.
>>> If you put the briefcase on, say a floppy drive, then you can
>>> synchronize
>>> copy files from the hard drive to the floppy. (use the right mouse
>>> button
>>> to drag the files from the hard drive to the briefcase folder on the
>>> floppy)
>>>
>>> Then you take the floppy to a second computer and use the files located
>>> in
>>> the briefcase.
>>>
>>> When you bring the floppy back to the first computer, right-click on the
>>> briefcase and choose update all, and the changes made to the floppy
>>> files
>>> will be transferred back to the hard drive.
>>>
>>> You can network two computers (connect them) and make a briefcase on one
>>> of them. Then synchronize copy files from the first computer to the
>>> second computer. Now when you update the briefcase, it will make sure
>>> the
>>> copies on both computers match.
>>>
>>> "B.W." <bwaller@norex.com.auxx (drop the xx)> wrote in message
>>> news:uLzVryqTFHA.228@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>>>I was reading an XP book about Briefcase and thought it could be useful
>>>>for me. However when I tried to follow the steps the commands were not
>>>>available. When I look up Briefcase in Help is says the two computers
>>>>must be connected somehow, this was not mentioned in the XP Book.. Is
>>>>this
>>>>true? In the book is says you just put Briefcase on a removable disk
>>>>copy
>>>>the files to it too then put the disk in the Laptop and copy the files
>>>>over and they get synchronised, no mention of the two computers having
>>>>to
>>>>be connected. Am I reading this incorrectly?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> B.W.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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