After having a hard drive failure on my wife's computer during a storm, and losing three months of Quicken data for two businesses, and personal accounts it really doesn't matter if you keep a backup file on your computer. It's got to be in another place I've concluded.

I use UniVoice, and have a large file of commands and custom words. What files do I need to allow a complete restore.?

thank you as always 

 TF

 

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I know where you're coming from - I lost a RAID set-up (BOTH hard drives), and so far, 3 external drives.  I save all my data every night to THREE different hard drives!!!  I've learned the hard way! 

I also have my whole User directory on a thumb drive.......

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Dana Joan - Vero Beach, FL  - 

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, Version 10.1; General Medical Large Vocabulary; Windows 7 Ultimate (on desktop); Windows XP Professional SR 3 (on laptop) and Sennheiser MD 431 II mic with the Andrea USB pod on both computers; LAPTOP: HP Compaq 8710p; Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00 GHz 2.00 GHz; 2.00 GB RAM; DESKTOP: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66 GHz 2.67 GHz; 2.00 GB RAM.

We recommend making biweekly backups (which you can schedule in your calendar) of your UniVoice folder onto your computer sense your thumb drive is effectively an external hard drive.  This way if you lose everything in your computer, you will still have a backup on the thumb drive and if you lose your thumb drive, you'll have a backup on your computer.  Of course if you leave your thumb drive in your computer and you have a fire... You might consider backing up important data off premises.  Lots of Internet sites are offering free and low-cost backup storage solutions.

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Thank you both for your response.

But I really want to make sure I do this right, and I am trying to find out the names of the directories and files that I need to back up my vocabulary, my list of commands, UniVoice, my pronunciations so that I will have a good restore when I have to do this again.  Can you advise?

Thomas Ficho

 

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Tom,

Here is the path to my User files on XP:
:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking9\Users\Martin Markoe\current

These include all added words, pronounciations and macros. You may have to go to Control Panel, Folder Options, View tab and enable Show hidden files and folders.

Here is the path to my User files in Vista:
C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking9\Users\Martin Markoe\current

Marty

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the best thing I did was  organise two Western digital 250 GB ( 3.5 inch) hard drives and some cases to convert them into external USB drives.

once a week dump either all of, or a delta, of all data on to the external hard drive. And once a month changeover the external hard drive with its off-site mate. Which is kept in a filing cabinet in the server room of the business I do some work for.

This is on top of the backup hard drive internal to the PC which I used for data.

excessive? I looked at how much I would be prepared to pay somebody to recover all the data I have on my PC if it got stolen or hit by lightning, and decided the above solution and stuffing around was well and truly worthwhile.

I was a little cautious about Internet backup because I like to physically control who has access to my information.

 

cheers,

Allan H.

 

 

 

I use a program called "fileback PC" , which lets you specify directories you want to back up.  So, I back up My Documents, and the Dragon directory specified by Martin.  These, and Quicken are scheduled to back up to an external drive.

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I back up to an external 500 GB WD hard drive - and I constantly get the "Delayed Write Failed" error message.  This morning I had it for Dragon User Files!  (Fortunately, I also back everything up to a 2nd internal hard drive - and selected files to another, smaller external hard drive).

I've turned off the "Optimize for quick removal" in the external disk's properties - as suggested by many (and Microsoft, too, I believe) - but it hasn't helped.

Does anyone know how to handle this error?

Dana 

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Dana Joan - Vero Beach, FL  - 

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, Version 10.1; General Medical Large Vocabulary; Windows 7 Ultimate (on desktop); Windows XP Professional SR 3 (on laptop) and Sennheiser MD 431 II mic with the Andrea USB pod on both computers; LAPTOP: HP Compaq 8710p; Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00 GHz 2.00 GHz; 2.00 GB RAM; DESKTOP: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66 GHz 2.67 GHz; 2.00 GB RAM.