Retired Coal Miner wrote in <IIadnXGGH_-aGfvcRVn-vQ[at]comcast.com> :

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2002 and 2005. One table I noticed was called "Feature Expiration
Custom Pool". It was empty but had a number of fields.

I spent all of about 30 min. poking around, using some freeware tools.
I'm sure someone with more time and interest, i.e. a Money user who
knows a little about databases and programming, could find interesting
ways to hack Money's data file. There are many possibilities. I
personally just don't have the time or inclination since I'm no longer
a Money user.

What was the year of the old Money file on which you tried this?

Steve Hanson wrote:
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<anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
<03ed01c4acdd$360ae4d0$a501280a[at]phx.gbl> :

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Jet is not a high performance database engine. This is why Microsoft
recommends people archive data--because Jet can't hack it. I agree
that some of the slowness is the crap IE interface and the constant
need to report to Microsoft's servers. However compare Quicken's
speed, which is way way faster than Money at displaying information,
doing searches, etc. That's where the database performance comes into
play.

I don't think that using a database format for the file
would make it slower, I believe that they are slowly
integrating the internet connectivity throughout the
application. With the latest version, they now have
replaced the Money Express with MSN Alerts. This really
ranks.
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LOL

Hey, let's start over with the Money app!

JB


Steve Hanson wrote:
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I decided to tool around with my old Money files in a binary editor
(can't do much else with them). The first thing in the file's header
was "MSISAM Database"--this is not news, the newsgroup FAQ states
this.

Well I noticed that in a similar position in an Access database I had
lying around it says "Standard Jet DB", so I replaced "MSISAM
Database" with that. I saved it and now Access didn't complain about
unknown database type, but it did request a password--which just means
they changed a tiny bit of stuff so that it wouldn't read straight
into Access. I ran an Access recovery tool on it and, sure enough,
could see most of my financial data in one of dozens of normalized
tables. No wonder Money is so slow.