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What is the best medium for temporary file storage?
I am currently saving my Word document on the hard disk. My only removable
medium is a CD-Writer. Should I purchase a floppy drive for document backup? Is there some other medium I could use for backup? |
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CD-R is an excellent backup medium.
-- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "guitarcondo" wrote in message ... I am currently saving my Word document on the hard disk. My only removable medium is a CD-Writer. Should I purchase a floppy drive for document backup? Is there some other medium I could use for backup? |
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I agree. Just a couple of additional points:
If you study your CD-writing software, you should find out how to write "track-at-a-time" without finalizing the disk. That will let you continue writing other files to the same disk later, so you don't have to waste a whole CD for one file and you don't have to wait until you're ready to write a lot of files at once. As an medium for quick but temporary backup, a 64MB or 128MB USB key (aka "thumb drive") works well. You just plug it in, write to it (it's almost as fast as a hard drive), and unplug it. Floppies are pretty much worthless any mo too small, and too prone to go bad. In any case, NEVER open a Word document directly from any removable media or save from Word directly to removable media. It's an invitation to corrupted documents. Always work only on the hard drive, and copy to/from other media. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Charles Kenyon wrote: CD-R is an excellent backup medium. "guitarcondo" wrote in message ... I am currently saving my Word document on the hard disk. My only removable medium is a CD-Writer. Should I purchase a floppy drive for document backup? Is there some other medium I could use for backup? |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:52:17 -0700 in microsoft.public.word.newusers,
guitarcondo favored us with... I am currently saving my Word document on the hard disk. My only removable medium is a CD-Writer. Should I purchase a floppy drive for document backup? Is there some other medium I could use for backup? A USB hard drive might be a good choice, since you can then easily take the document to many other computers. A 128 MB drive is quite inexpensive and would be more than adequate. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?" "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters." "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert." "I was misinformed." |
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:19:56 -0400 in microsoft.public.word.newusers,
Stan Brown favored us with... On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:52:17 -0700 in microsoft.public.word.newusers, guitarcondo favored us with... I am currently saving my Word document on the hard disk. My only removable medium is a CD-Writer. Should I purchase a floppy drive for document backup? Is there some other medium I could use for backup? A USB hard drive might be a good choice, since you can then easily ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ take the document to many other computers. A 128 MB drive is quite inexpensive and would be more than adequate. Sorry, I meant a USB _flash_ drive, one of the little sticks such as a Sandisk. They're very light weight and are compatible with computers after Win 98 with no need to install drivers. And they're very much faster than CD. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?" "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters." "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert." "I was misinformed." |
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