Thanks. I'll try that. Everything worked as advertised on a simple USB drive so it may be a Windows issue or power on the old Windows 7 machine.
On Sep 15, 2017 7:29 PM, "Art" <pina...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm not familiar with "WinDrive". My 5TB USB drive is Seagate Backup Plus > formatted to NTFS with a GPT (to handle drives larger than 2TB). > > Since you said you could see the files from the first machine, the data > was likely there. If you cannot see any files on the same drive from the > second machine, I'd get another Windows 10 machine to see if it can read > any files on the same drive. If not,the "WinDrive" is suspect. > > BTW, I also have a 2TB drive powered by the USB port - that device > occasionally fails if the host cannot power the drive, i.e., the port > can't handle the 500 mA peak demand from the drive, so it disconnects and > the data corrupts. It's a nuisance, but it works most of the time. I > generate checksums for my critical files so I can just destroy corrupt > files and get another copy (I keep three copies of all my critical stuff). > > - Art > > On Friday, September 15, 2017, 7:21:13 PM EDT, Roger Oliver < > ro...@olivermx.net> wrote: > > > Windows 7 and 10. Mostly interested in a backup copy off the main computer > in case it crashes. Mine did, the Windows 10 machine. All my GC data was > restored from the Carbonite backup. Grateful it worked. The 7 machine is at > the school dedicated to accounting. I think there is something wrong with > the WinDrive external hard drive. Thanks! > > On Sep 15, 2017 6:08 PM, "Art" <pina...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > What are the OSes on the source and target computers? > What is the external hard disk filesystem and how do you know it's > compatible with both computers? > > I assume you are able to run GC on both computers, hence the point of > copying the db to the second one. E.g., I routinely archive my db from my > Ubuntu 17.04 machine to a 5TB USB drive so I can restore it to my Windows > 10 laptop when I'm on the road and vice versa to sync my backup repository. > > - Art > > On Friday, September 15, 2017, 6:13:36 PM EDT, Roger Oliver < > ro...@olivermx.net> wrote: > > > I can't seem to get the GnuCash files to back up to an external hard disk. > The files show that they are there but when I try to find them on another > computer to have a copy off site, the files are not there. What am I doing > wrong? Thanks, Roger Oliver > > ______________________________ _________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/ mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
