Thanks Rob, yes tried different accounts, tried different external drives, both Firewire and USB. Neither a separate account, or other drives made any difference. So ruled all that out...
On 7/11/08 8:34 AM, "Rob Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you try changing the destination to a different volume like a > flash drive or creating a test user and logging in as the test user? On 7/11/08 8:52 AM, "Ronda Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Instead of creating the .zip file, can you Copy the Data File and save > it to an external HD or Flash Drive? > > Does if make any difference if you go to FILE menu in MYOB and select > BACKUP. The Company File Backup dialogue box will appear. > Have you tried selecting the option "back up all data and check the > file for errors".? > > Seems like something is going wrong with the actually 'zipping' of the > file. > Like you I don't use MYOB, so I don't know much about it. Thanks Ronni Yes, I can copy the data file to a drive, which is what they are doing now. Also, doesn't make a difference whether we do it from MYOB telling us to Backup, or from the menu backup. Also checking for errors and "compressing" (I think) the data file comes back saying all is good and no problems found. The file itself gets reported as all be fine. It's just the backup zip part. But yes, I agree it's something in the backup file. On 7/11/08 10:08 AM, "Dudley Gager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about ditching MYOB's backup system and just relying on a general > backup regime like Time Machine or SuperDuper. > > I am a MYOB user and I don't do their backups any more - I use > SuperDuper to 2 partitioned external firewire drives - one at a time > and the other off site - and every other night to the one partition > and every month to the other partition. Thanks Dudley. Yes, they are backing up with Time Machine and just "dragging" the file to another backup device as well. So it's being backup, no problems there. But thanks for that. ---- Just one of those "annoying things" really. Although there are other ways to do it, it's useful to know why it's not doing it, and to try and get it working like the software is meant to. Looks like they may have to just backup the other ways and maybe something will turn up at a later date. Will see if I can flick it off to MYOB as well, just so they know. Thanks all for the replies. At least I know I tried everything. (Well I think I did) :o) Thanks again all for the suggestions. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
