I continued to have the capability to backup to my external firewire cdrw drive as my Software Update never caught that I'm still running 1.2.1 (which works fine) so apparently I never upgraded to 1.2.3. I thought that I had, and that people complaining on the list were just insane - lol. I find it quite curious and surprising they removed this feature in 1.2.3 (or removed any features at all) - I'm now downloading the v2 beta and will report how it works with an external firewire hard disk. --alan On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Eagle wrote: > Recently on this list there was some complaining that .Mac Backup > v1.2.3 removed the ability to save to FireWire CD-RW or DVD drives. > > I just wanted to point out that the Public Beta of .Mac Backup 2 has > the ability to back up to FireWire drives (hard and optical), iPods, > iDisk. My list is probably not exhaustive, so take a look at > www.mac.com for details.