On Friday, 8 April 2016 11:51:00 UTC+1, Peter Bienstman  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You can just leave that backup sitting on an external drive without needing 
> to open files. In case your HD fails, just copy over the folder from the 
> external drive to your new HD.
> 
> How often you make a backup is up to you :-)
> 
> Peter
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:mnemosyne-proj-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of iwl
> > Sent: 08 April 2016 12:41
> > To: mnemosyne-proj-users <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Backing-up
> > 
> > I wonder if someone could clarify the process of backing-up for me?  As I
> > understand it, there's no way of backing up automatically to the web, so one
> > needs to back up to a USB drive or something similar.  I've gone to what I 
> > take
> > to be the relevant folder at C:\Users\<your user
> > name>\AppData\Roaming\Mnemosyne and copied this folder to a memory
> > stick.  When I then put this in another computer and click on one of the 
> > Default
> > files in the folder, I'm warned that I'm trying to open a Date Base file 
> > and asked
> > which programme I want to use to open it.  I'm not sure where to go from 
> > here,
> > or indeed whether I'm doing the right thing in the first place.  And if I 
> > am, do I
> > have to keep copying the Mnemosyne folder to my flash drive every week or so
> > to ensure that I don't lose too much in the event of my hard-drive 
> > crashing?  I'd
> > be most grateful for guidance that will make sense to someone with very 
> > little
> > computer knowledge.
> > 
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Hi,
Thanks. Does the folder have to be copied to a particular place on the new hard 
drive?  I downloaded Mnemosyne onto a second computer and it worked as 
expected, but when I copied the folder with my cards from the flash drive into 
the new Mnemosyne folder, it wouldn't work and just brought up an error 
message.  Basically I haven't grasped how to make the cards backed up from one 
computer function on the other - assuming that I actually have backed up the 
cards by copying the folder from C:\Users\<your user
> > name>\AppData\Roaming\Mnemosyne.  Sorry to be dense about this, but it's 
> > obviously rather crucial after spending a lot of time setting up the cards.

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