In a message dated 9/7/01 5:50:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
westfalen-l-request@genealogy.net writes:
<< Dear list members,
my ancient computer keeps crashing on me, and I would dearly like to back up
all my ancestral data collected in Familytreemaker version 7 as well as the
whole program if that is possible. Unfortunately, I am not able to discern
which are program files, and which are my data. There is a whole bunch of
files and folders on my computer all named "FTM" by the program.
Can somebody please help?
Kind regards,
Petra 
>>
Petra,
You've been so helpful. Glad there is something that I now can help with.
Open up your FamilyTreeMaker program. Click on File. click on Backup Family
Tree File. IF you are saving to a disk - Click on floppy drive A:
It will save it onto your disk. So incase of emergency you have a good copy.
If you ever need to reinstall your FTM program, you can do that & then add
your data off of the back up disk.
Good Luck
Kerry McHugh
Olympia WA
Researching: Wiskirchen, Heckenkamp, Kroner, Starmann, Kau