Where's my archive gone?

When you use programs sometimes you learn new things and it helps you understand them better.
When I went to update my archive, big surprise, it wasn't in the update snapshot items. Checked external was plugged in as I only do that for updating, yes it was in.
Then I noticed the drive letter was different for the external in "my computer". I had been using a usb device to run portable firefox, clamwin etc to see what they were like, so when I plugged in the external drive it assigned a different drive letter and so FD didn't recognise it.
Went into FD tools/options/archives and scrolled to the new assigned one and archive, all was right again -achive updated.

Just thought I'd share my learning experience

 

That can cause problems on several different levels, and is indeed something to be aware of.

 

As far as I understand things Erik, I have 2 usb ports at the front of my computer, and I always put my external in the bottom one called "L" by my system, and this is where FD set up the archive when I first did it.

However, as I said, I recently used the same port for my usb stick to try portable apps for the first time.

What I didn't realise is that when I put my external drive in this time, my system would give it another drive letter, it has never done this before and I have used the same port lots of time. Could it be that I used the port to try firefox, connecting to the internet etc?

Anyway the main this is, it taught me HOW to view an archived snapshot when I couldn't see it, and also windows can change drive letters for external devices and to be aware of this in the future.