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> I recently reinitialized my hard drive (Mac G3 266, OS 9.2) expecting the restore to be as easy as the years of backups (RE 4.1) had seemed to be. I apparently have six Iomega 250 Zip cartridges

 

> full of data but can't get it out. After rebuilding the catalog about six

 

> times, with 1.3 million execution errors, error 102, each time, a friend

 

> smarter than I seemed to verify that there seem to be data on the Zip disks but

 

> that backup headers were/was faulty. I did retrieve two 1MB FileMaker

 

> databases and some AppleWorks documents in my first effort at complete restore, but is there any way to retrieve my

 

> 11 years of Quicken financial records or even more years of genealogy

 

> research??

 

> Henceforth my backup strategy will be vastly different, but I hate to rekey

 

> those thousands of records. Meanwhile I have ordered RE 5.0 but am afraid to

 

> install it after reading through the forum postings.Thanks for any

 

> encouraging word.

 

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Retrospect Version 4.1, when using removable disks, is not compatible with OS 9.2. In order to properly recatalog, backup and restore with system 9.x you will need the v4.3 or better. Either, upgrade to v4.3 to retrieve that data or, upgrade to the v5.0.

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