Hi Alan
 Doesn't put it in the refrigerator, please, it is not the heat what damages them, it is the humidity.
 I live in Puerto Rico (USA), a beautiful island in the  Caribbean sea. In here, if you live near a lake or the sea, the diskette or floppies deteriorates quickly, but if you keep them in a sealed container, like empty cans of cookies, they last years. Better if you use any drying material in the container. I hope you understand my english and this help you.
Luis Martinez
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:02:46 +1000, Alan Eugene Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Please bear in mind I live in the tropics, and cannot keep my
>diskette collections under any kind of standard conditions.
>
>Almost invariably, it seems,  diskettes more than a year old are
>unreadable.  Is there anything I can do to save them?  What physically
>is happening to the media that makes it (apparently) impossible for
>the fdd to read the disks?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Alan

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