Thank you Bert. I tried to use your method, including Anthony's suggestion to include the imports and images but the backup failed. Bottom line is I ran out of space in my drive. AC is installed in a 200 gig partition with 100 gig free. Part of the problem is AC's redundancy in making the backups (first it makes an pre-tuneup backup [1 gig], then it copies the imported and image folder into one folder [35 gig], then it tries to do the encrypted backup). I can make a backup that does not include the import and images, so I will probably just copy the imported files and images folders manually. Are there any other "essential" folders that need to be moved? I don't care about labs such as quest, I never use them. The only one I really care about is Updox. Do I need to do anything with that?