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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 7:30 am Posted by Bob B (1139 messages posted) Instead of doing a "Save As" action, just save the edited copy on the HD, then copy it to the floppy. When asked to overwrite, choose Yes. I would consider using at least 2 floppies and alternating between them as floppies tend to take sudden death leaps. I have two hard drives and keep copies of important files on both, then I back up to a CD from time-to-time. On Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 6:28 am, Durward Leeper wrote: >I have a question about Windows XP -not altering the floppys but altering the file >name of the floppy. I have several files that relate to keeping track of household >info that I feel a need to track! For example one of these is a spreadsheet called >"Credit Card". As may be obvious I keep my credit card charges in the file. I back >it up on 3.5 floppies. I am using Win XP Home edition and Office 97. When I update >the file once a week I save it to the hard drive and then back it up on a floppy, >using the "Save As" command. When I do this the computer changes the name of the >file to "C.xls. Can anyone tell me why this happens and how to fix it? > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 8:46 am Posted by Ricer46 (20251 messages posted) Seems strange that it would do that, but Bob B is right. It's really not advisable to save directly to the floppy disk. Besides not being a safe practice, it adds the file to your MRU list, which causes annoying floppy disk searches. Also always remember that floppy disks are the least reliable of all storage media. On Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 6:28 am, Durward Leeper wrote: >I have a question about Windows XP -not altering the floppys but altering the file >name of the floppy. I have several files that relate to keeping track of household >info that I feel a need to track! For example one of these is a spreadsheet called >"Credit Card". As may be obvious I keep my credit card charges in the file. I back >it up on 3.5 floppies. I am using Win XP Home edition and Office 97. When I update >the file once a week I save it to the hard drive and then back it up on a floppy, >using the "Save As" command. When I do this the computer changes the name of the >file to "C.xls. Can anyone tell me why this happens and how to fix it? > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' Friday, December 23, 2005 at 4:13 am Posted by Durward Leeper (2 messages posted) Gentlemen, Thank you for your answers. I agree with all you say but what you are giving me are "workarounds". I've used this system for about ten years using os's from Win 3.1 to XP and Office versions from 95 to 97. I have had no trouble (except failing floppy's for which I early on adopted multiple floppy backup!). The trouble began when I tried to use "Briefcase" so that I could incremental backups. I'm not sure why but it just doesn't work on this machine. It did however, make a change to my Excel program that causes this problem. I would like to correct the change. Thanks for your interest. Durward On Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 8:46 am, Ricer46 wrote: >Seems strange that it would do that, but Bob B is right. It's really not advisable >to save directly to the floppy disk. Besides not being a safe practice, it adds the >file to your MRU list, which causes annoying floppy disk searches. Also always remember >that floppy disks are the least reliable of all storage media. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Altering Floppy Disks' Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 4:55 pm Posted by DJ (7 messages posted) Easy save fix for most occassions..... remember YOU are suppode to be RUNNING the computer, funny how folks forget that? well, when saving, just pop out the box at the bottom of the save window, and select ALL FILES, then YOU choose the ext to save as... (ie, .txt, .bmp, .jpg, ) YOU are the user / operater... Lawd did a non-human enter anything into the o / s? not REALLY... [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum