CompuServe Messages

Mark, while forgetting the other apparent non-issues, this one issue is enough to make compression very dangerous, IMHO. If there is the slightest problem with a single file, the whole backup could be rendered unusable, if you never reach the file you wanted. I would have thought that the last disc in the backup set would have had an index on it telling the program where to find a given file. Note that products like Central Point Backup not only do things like that, they also put that index on the hard drive itself in a file. That way, if you're only restoring one file, it quickly tells you what floppy to put in, and the restore is finished very, very quickly. I hope that New Horizons considers this problem serious enough to do another patch quickly. As badly as I need to reduce the size of my backup sets, I'm afraid to use this long overdue feature. I'm really surprised that this could happen. Ron