If I need to back up the entries of the Planner or Address List as a text file, I use the "Print to File" option. With KeyList, yes, you do need to create a template to house all the fields, but you can have all the records copied to the "Print to File.txt" (without the quotes) file in the root directory of the KeySoft System Disk (and with the Planner, you specify the dates you want "printed", so they get put into the "Print to File" file). Because the contents of "Print to File.txt" are overwritten every time you use it, I save the entries of KeyPlan/KeyList that I have backed up to another text file. The "Print to File" option is used by selecting the "File" port of the "Printer port?" setting in the Printer Set-Up List.
HTH, Maria >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Laura Wolk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected] >Sent: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 10:49:36 -0500 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] backing up the planner as a text file >Hi Rhonda and Jane: >This message is from forever ago, but I just wanted to say that no, you >cannot choose which file format you want your files to be backed up in from >the utilities menu. In effect, the backup option is just a mass copying >option, so the exact copies of the files are backed up to whichever drive >you specify. So you can't choose which type of files you would like them >backed up as. >Also, you cannot back up the planner database, or any other keysoft >database, so that it can be read on a computer or laptop. You would have to >copy the records using templates into a txt or rtf file. If this has >changed, please someone correct me because I'd only be too happy to hear >that this has been fixed. >HTH, Laura
