Right click on the backup files and check the attributes.
If they are system, read-only you wont be able to replace
them.  This is the same as the dos attrib -s -h -r command.
Also, if the show as in use, when you copied them for some
reason, thru the miracle of windows, then the backup became
the master.


John Smallwood wrote:

> I did manual backup of sys.dat and user.dat , to new
> directory in c drive a
> few weeks ago. Now when I try to update files to the new
> directory, it is
> refused and won't let me overwrite. The only way I can
> write user.dat and
> sys.dat to the new directory , is to delete previous
> enteries . Why is this
> occuring? Ideas and Comments.   Sincerely, John Smallwood
> (mousepotato)



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