Thanks Dick,

I have learned years ago! I have been backing up my money file daily on a
different Zip disk for several years. And once a week I back up to floppies.
Learned the hard way....


"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
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Pretty much. Once you copy the .MNY file from the M03 machine to the new
machine--put it in My Documents--you can double click on it. M04 will
recognize the file as an M03 file and walk you through a process where it
saves a copy, renames, then migrates the data to the M04 data structures.
There will be a dialog box explaining what it is doing.

For most users this is a pretty painless process that takes only a few
minutes. Some have worse experiences--these typically seem to involve files
that already have some form of "corruption"--but this is a rare experience.

Always keep backups of your backups.

"RHinNC" <rhinnc[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the responses.

My new PC comes with the standard version of 2004 and I have been using the
standard version of 2003.

When you say "upgrading" my data file, would you please explain? Does that
mean I can simply copy my data file to my new PC, start 04 and load the 03
file?

Thanks again.

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
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Assuming that both are for the same localization (i.e., US or UK or
whatever) and the you aren't downgrading editions (Deluxe-> Standard), there
will probably be no problem upgrading your data file. M04 is almost a carbon
copy of M03. There weren't many compelling reasons to buy the upgrade.
Likewise, there aren't many compelling reasons not to if the M04 is already
paid for.

"RHinNC" <rhinnc[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, RHinNC wrote:

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If you were using Money 2003 Deluxe, you would lose some function
going to Money 2004 Standard. If you were using Money 2003 Standard,
you would be better off to go to the Money 2004 Standard.

I had a catastrophic HDD crash the other day, of course my data was backed
up. I have been using the standard version of Money 2003 for a couple years
and like it. My new PC comes with Money 2004 loaded.

Will there be any problem with 2004 reading the 2003 file? Any compelling
reason to upgrade to 2004? Or should I just stick to the familiar 2003?

Thanks for any input!!!