Like you, we have our back-up files on a 2nd hard drive [in case the main drive should die] but we take back-ups one step further .... every few weeks we burn the files to a DVD and store those DVD's off site as protection against fire and theft loss. Bob Roland R. Irish III wrote: >The computer we use for the Amaya has two hard drives-I had an extra >one installed when we originally setup the system. >The second hard drive is where we store all the customer files-so >that if anything happens to the 'program' drive-the files are safe. >I have copied many files to share or send out to another shop-and I >always do it from Design Shop and save it as a DS file, and also >have saved some as dst, tajima, etc. right from the same 'save' window. >If you are getting saved files as jpg or other formats-then your >default for that save window is set on the wrong file. If you >don't notice it but just hit 'save' button, it is saving it to >whatever it is set to. Been there, done that... >so I always make sure to read the little bar to confirm the format. > >=========================================================== > >The AmayaUsers Mailing List >Website: http://www.amayausers.com >Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list > >=========================================================== > > > > =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================