Hi Marie, Most likely you have the CD formatted to act like a hard drive (you drag files to the CD and they are written like a hard drive). In this way it can be written to via the OS. However, if you don't format the CD first, Legacy can't natively write to the disk.
This is a feature of many of the newer CD/DVD burners. However, if you have a much older burner, this feature isn't available. I hope this explains why it worked for you and that Sherry said that Legacy doesn't support burning directly to CD, which it doesn't. Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie Peer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 7:56 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Which files do I back up on CD-RW? > Good Morning Everyone and Sherry, > > In reply to Jan, see below, you advised that she <do a backup of the Family > File and then burn that backup over to the CD>. > > When I close Legacy and am asked if I want to make a backup, I say yes and > then choose to backup to a CD rather than to my hard drive. Why is that not > an acceptable practice? After reading this series of messages regarding > backups, I tried restoring one of the backed up files, and it worked. > > What am I missing? Why do I need to backup to the hard drive and then burn > that to CD? > > Thank you for helping me to understand. > > Marie > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
