In the meantime, I have tried the Microsoft support and
after a couple of messages back and forth I tried the
Super Salvage utility (available for download): it works
miracles, it managed to get my original file into a
format that Money 2004 was able to open: at a first
glance, all the information seems to be there.


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In microsoft.public.money, Paul A. wrote:

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FYI, Canada is a special case for Money. The last
Money Deluxe version for Canada was 2000.

US Money 2004 Standard is the same as the Canadian version. The
program checks the regional settings. If Canadian, it does certain
things to Canadian rules. Most notable of what I have picked up is
that basis is the average of all holdings across all accounts in a
file. Plus the list of Canadian banks. From what I have been able
to glean, changing the regional settings to the opposite (US/Canada)
of what was in effect when the Money file was created causes the
Money file to not be useable until you change back. I am of the
details. It is largely what I think I have inferred from postings
of users. The last Money Deluxe version for Canada was 2000.

So the Money 2004 Standard/Canadian should be able to make sense of
your file. If you bought US Deluxe version, you might want to use
the 30 day refund privilege.



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If you were to actually do the QIF export/import, saving the QIF
files would be per-account, but it would be important to do the
imports all at once.

There would be some other potential considerations too.



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I have been using Money since late 1995. Since then I
have upgraded to MOney 2000 and now to Money 2004
Canadian Edition (I have always used the Canadian
Edition).
I have installed Money2004 on a new computer (therefore
it was a clean install). When I try to open the old file
(created with Money 2000), I am prompted for the password
(so it can read from the file), I enter it then it starts
the Import/Convert process: the progress bar shows that
some kind of operations are being performed and at the
end of it, Money 2004 shuts off (apologizing for the
inconvenience though ) without displaying any kind of
specific error (I did send an error report at that
stage). Rhis behaviour is consistent no matter how many
times I try it.

Notes:
- I have tried opening the original file with Money 2000:
it works, the file is not corrupted
- the original Money2000 file is ~ 13MB in size and it
contains all the information I have gathered since 1995
- the file created by Money2004 after the botched attempt
at converting the file is ~ 16MB in size; if I try
opening this new file, I am getting the same kind of
behaviur: prompting for the password, then shutting off
automatically
- I have tried repairing it: I get the bloated file as a
result (16MB) without any errors being reported in the
log and if I try to open it I get the same result:
prompting for the password, then shutting off
automatically
- I have tried installing Money 2000 and then upgrading
to 2004: same behaviour
- I have tried installing Money 2004 on a different
computer (running XP Prof without SP1 applied): exactly
the same behaviour
- I have tried importing individual accounts (vis the QIF
files): it seems to be working fine but I am trying to
avoid recreating 40+ accounts

Please advise if the only way I can transfer the
information is through the tedious manual process of
exporting and importing all the accounts, one by one.

Thank you in advance for any help...

Paul A.