Please do, alan. I am still running 1.0.something, and I'm surprised my Software Update has never offered to download a newer version! With a positive report from you, I will begin using v2 beta. Eagle On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 18:02 US/Eastern, a l a n t h o m p s o n wrote: > 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.