When you make a backup in Sage 50\/Peachtree, it is automatically saved in the same folder that your company’s data is stored in.\u00a0 You can choose a different drive or folder, but Sage 50 won’t remember that location next time.\u00a0 An easy way to get your backups saved into the folder of your choice is to place a shortcut to that folder in your company’s Sage 50 data folder.\u00a0 Then backups can be saved to your designated location with just one extra double click.<\/p>\n
First, you’ll need to find out where your company’s folder is located.\u00a0 From the main Sage 50\/Peachtree window, choose Company Information<\/em> from the Maintain<\/em> menu.\u00a0 The Directory<\/em> field shows the location of your data.\u00a0 Open My Computer<\/em> or Windows Explorer<\/em> and navigate to that location.\u00a0 The easiest way is to copy the contents of the Destination<\/em> field and paste it into the address bar in My Computer\/Windows Explorer<\/em>.<\/p>\n Next open another My Computer window.<\/em>\u00a0 Find the folder you want to save your backups in, right click on it and choose Copy<\/em>.<\/p>\n Go back to the window showing your Sage50\/Peachtree data, right click in a blank space and choose Paste Shortcut<\/em>.\u00a0 Do not<\/span> choose Paste<\/em> or, instead of a shortcut to that folder, you will get a copy of the other folder and its contents.<\/p>\n To make a Sage 50 backup, go to File – Backup<\/em> like usual.\u00a0 When you get to the Save Backup<\/em> window, the shortcut should appear right after the folders. (If it’s not there, click the Name<\/em> column heading to re-sort the list.)\u00a0 Double click the shortcut to jump to your backup folder and click Save<\/em>.\u00a0 The ptb file will be saved to your backup folder instead of your data folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sage 50 defaults to saving your backups in the same folder your data is in – not very helpful if that hard drive fails. Here is an easy way you can save your backups to a different location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}