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I have been using a thumbdrive to backup my PowerChurch. It usually backs up to G: drive.

I just installed an external backup drive on my computer. It is on G: drive. PowerChurch doesn't give me G: as an option.

I tried all the letters available, just to try. Nothing works. Any suggestions?
Thanks~Kristi

Kristi wrote:I have been using a thumbdrive to backup my PowerChurch. It usually backs up to G: drive.

I just installed an external backup drive on my computer. It is on G: drive. PowerChurch doesn't give me G: as an option.

I tried all the letters available, just to try. Nothing works. Any suggestions?
Thanks~Kristi

Some external backup drives appear to the operating system as a local hard drive, Powerchurch will not backup to local hard drives.

If you really want to backup to an external drive, you can install it on another machine on your network and share the drive from that machine, or leave the external hard drive on your machine, backup to the thumbdrive, then copy the file from there to the external.

If you are using V10.4 you can in fact backup to the external drive. First create a folder on the drive that you want to put the backup file in. Then when you do your backup select "backup to folder". You can then select the drive and folder you want to put the file into.

tborgal wrote:If you are using V10.4 you can in fact backup to the external drive. First create a folder on the drive that you want to put the backup file in. Then when you do your backup select "backup to folder". You can then select the drive and folder you want to put the file into.

Doh ... I had forgotten that bypass for local external drives, which is weird because I use it when I save to my networked external.

Yeah! That was so easy even I was able to do it the first time!
Thank you very much!