NEED YOUR OPINION: floppies vs. CD's for backup WORD files.
Glad that WWJD and Hussein helped me figure out how to backup on CD's with my G4 on Jaguar. Now, I need more experienced opinions than mine:
I mostly backup WORD files. For this, I liked floppies better than CD's; I thought Apple was nuts when the iMac came out with no floppy drive. They were faster. And also, you could just update/replace a single file to a floppy whereas with a rewritable CD, you have to drag all the info on the CD back onto the desktop, erase the entire CD-RW, rename it, etc. then drag the files that WERE ON there, plus the NEW FILES you wanted to backup, back onto the CD and burn it. And the burning seems to take a lot longer than copying to floppy.
But maybe there's something I'm missing: I don't know a lot. So I'd really like your opinion on floppies vs. CD's. "Helpful" to all.
j.
I mostly backup WORD files. For this, I liked floppies better than CD's; I thought Apple was nuts when the iMac came out with no floppy drive. They were faster. And also, you could just update/replace a single file to a floppy whereas with a rewritable CD, you have to drag all the info on the CD back onto the desktop, erase the entire CD-RW, rename it, etc. then drag the files that WERE ON there, plus the NEW FILES you wanted to backup, back onto the CD and burn it. And the burning seems to take a lot longer than copying to floppy.
But maybe there's something I'm missing: I don't know a lot. So I'd really like your opinion on floppies vs. CD's. "Helpful" to all.
j.
G4, Mac OS X (10.2.x), OS X 10.2.7
