Bert,
This is probably what QB does, just much more out of the average user's sight. I simple choose where I wanted it go. So once, long ago, I browsed to my E: external Hard Drive, made a folder for QB back ups and now every night I back it up, boom I just click a few time thru the windows to choose the same old place I always use and it adds another backup copy to that folder I setup long ago. New backup made, compacted and or formatted just as QB likes it, with that day's time and date. Simple, Elegant. It just seems to me that you are very right about the tech being there. But it has not be setup to use it on our own external drives for free. Choice is the only real problem here. The choices have been left out, why?
