Money asking for 2nd media to backup too

I've backed up money to a USB drive for years without problems.
This USB drive is 16Gb big so has plenty of space.

I've always ignored the 'Estimated bytes need for backup file:1619550
bytes, which is about 2 floppy disks' message

Today (even on a restored partition) the backup is saying it
requires 2 disks and indeed asking for a 2nd disk even though the
USB drive is nearly empty, clicking 'OK' finishes the backup. Also
writes 2 files backup.1 & backup2.

I've never had this message before and don't want it now.
Is there a way to fool Money that the disk has huge capacity asnd is
not a floppy? Many thanks for any assistance.
AndyPandy

In microsoft.public.uk.money, AndyPandy wrote:

>I've backed up money to a USB drive for years without problems.
>This USB drive is 16Gb big so has plenty of space.
>
>I've always ignored the 'Estimated bytes need for backup file:1619550
>bytes, which is about 2 floppy disks' message
>
>Today (even on a restored partition) the backup is saying it
>requires 2 disks and indeed asking for a 2nd disk even though the
>USB drive is nearly empty, clicking 'OK' finishes the backup. Also
>writes 2 files backup.1 & backup2.
>
>I've never had this message before and don't want it now.
>Is there a way to fool Money that the disk has huge capacity asnd is
>not a floppy? Many thanks for any assistance.


Add enough files to leave less than 2 GB of free space on the USB
drive.

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:27:49 +0100, AndyPandy wrote:

> I've backed up money to a USB drive for years without problems.
> This USB drive is 16Gb big so has plenty of space.
>
> I've always ignored the 'Estimated bytes need for backup file:1619550
> bytes, which is about 2 floppy disks' message
>
> Today (even on a restored partition) the backup is saying it
> requires 2 disks and indeed asking for a 2nd disk even though the
> USB drive is nearly empty, clicking 'OK' finishes the backup. Also
> writes 2 files backup.1 & backup2.
>
> I've never had this message before and don't want it now.
> Is there a way to fool Money that the disk has huge capacity asnd is
> not a floppy? Many thanks for any assistance.
> AndyPandy

Check to see if your backup options have changed.

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:39:59 -0500, Cal Learner
<> wrote:

>In microsoft.public.uk.money, AndyPandy wrote:
>
>>I've backed up money to a USB drive for years without problems.
>>This USB drive is 16Gb big so has plenty of space.
>>
>>I've always ignored the 'Estimated bytes need for backup file:1619550
>>bytes, which is about 2 floppy disks' message
>>
>>Today (even on a restored partition) the backup is saying it
>>requires 2 disks and indeed asking for a 2nd disk even though the
>>USB drive is nearly empty, clicking 'OK' finishes the backup. Also
>>writes 2 files backup.1 & backup2.
>>
>>I've never had this message before and don't want it now.
>>Is there a way to fool Money that the disk has huge capacity asnd is
>>not a floppy? Many thanks for any assistance.
>
>
>Add enough files to leave less than 2 GB of free space on the USB
>drive.
Strange but it worked, thank you.
AndyPandy