<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Jonathan Hirschman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4857F535.8020305@hirschman.net" type="cite">Just for fun: have you tried putting any of the disks into the optical <pre wrap="">drive of your Ubuntu machine? If so, what's on them? Can your Ubuntu machine read them at all? How about giving us a file listing, or part of one? </pre> </blockquote> Hello Jonathan, Actually, when a disk is mounted (in this case the last of the set) I see a folder, an .nbi file with the same name, and two different .txt files - one is NB and the other is ReadMe. According to the ReadMe, the .nbi file (which is only on the last disk) is what is needed to do the restore since it is backup info. So, trying to Open the .nbi gives me a message that there is "no application installed for this file type." Checking the folder with the same name I see a series of sub-folders and if I go deep enough I can see some files (the icon looks like a partially opened box, I think) which all end with .odt.nco and if I extract these to the Desktop OpenOffice does open them. However, you can imagine how tedious it would be to go through each and every folder showing on all 4 disks in order to find the files for the Mrs. <blockquote cite="mid:4857F535.8020305@hirschman.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">... send some email to Ahead Software - and let us all know what the reply is. I'm sure that I'm not the only one that's curious. Jonathan </pre> </blockquote> An email has been sent...we're ALL curious :-D <blockquote cite="mid:4857F535.8020305@hirschman.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thanks in advance for your help! </pre> </blockquote> (again) Michaelf </body> </html>