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the “Other back up location” in your PcMars program. These removable drives hold a lot of data and can be used over and over without losing data you already have backed up. If you still have a 3½” drive and are using the new PcMars 2.0.8 version, you have the ability to “compress (zip)” your data to your 3½” floppy drive. This will compress your set of books into a “zipped” folder and copy it to your 3½” floppy drive very quickly and will only use one disk as compared to the conventional method of backing up directly to the “A:\” drive which can be time consuming and sometimes use more than one disk. Just remember that whichever method of backup you choose, it is very important to backup your data. |
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Many of you are getting new computers that don’t come with a 3½” floppy drive. Instead you have a CD drive and usually a CD burner. We are getting several inquiries on how to back up to a CD. Here is a general review on CD’s. There are two types of CD’s—CD-RW (read/writeable) or CD-R (read only). RW—These can be used as R or an RW. The advantage of an RW is it can be used just as a big floppy disc ONCE it is formatted. The disadvantage is since your computer formatted the RW, many times other computers cannot read the data. In PcMars you will be able to back up to a CD-RW through your PcMars program provided you format the CD first. You will need additional software to format your CD-RW. R—The advantage of an R is it can be read 99.9% of the time on all CD drives. This is what you should use for your permanent backup. The disadvantage is that you generally need to do this through your CD burning software. Another quick and easy way to back up your data is on external, removable drives or “pen drives, memory sticks, etc.” Just insert the pen drive in the external USB port and select that drive from |
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DON’T FORGET! YOU CAN UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE ANYTIME DURING YOUR ACCOUNTING YEAR. |