Thanks to all that replied regarding my problem. I've since reverted back to
Money 99 and will be returning Money 2005. In addition to not being able to
upgrade my files, the new version doesn't really add much new functionality.
One of the things I was hoping to see was a change in report layout and
printing. Nope...the only thing I saw in those regards was a new
"bubble-gum" interface, but the same old backend.

Time to evaluate Quicken!


"Robert" wrote:

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I've been struggling for the past week or two with an upgrade from
Money 2000 Business Edition to Money 2005 Premium Edition.

It has not been smooth, I had M05 crashing repeatedly at various
reports and screens.

As you already said, first thing seems to be to run money -s and then
super salvage on the file before transferring to 05.

Then what I finally did was begin deleting accounts one at a time and
seeing if the program still crashed. Eventually I found the account
that was causing the problems. Then I restored from salvaged file
again and began deleting transactions in the problem account 1 year at
a time until M05 stopped crashing. Restored and began deleting again
until I tracked down the transactions that were causing the problem.

It was a perfectly innocuous transaction (a transfer of funds from
another account) that once deleted caused M05 to be fine. (And this is
after supersalvage said no problem with file!) Re-entering an
identical transaction manually caused the program to crash again but I
was able to work around by showing that I sold the fund and then
transferred the cash rather than the opposite.

A similar technique (of pruning things away till you find the
problem(s)) might work for you.

-Robert

I would give M04 slight points over M02, primarily in performance but also
in fixes to the scheduled bill stuff. M02 could just loose them for no
apparent reason. M04 doesn't seem to. This was all new in M02 and was
somewhat buggy. By M04, they'd fixed some of this--but not the morphing to
Paycheck issue. Beyond that, it's pretty thin gruel. At least they didn't
rework the UI just for fun as did M04-> M05.

"Jim" <Jim[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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If you are on line Dick Watson. In your knowledge is there a complelling
reason to go to M2004 over M2002? Is there something I am missing? I just
know that M2005 offered nothing over M2002.
"Dick Watson" wrote:

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What version are you trying to convert TO????

IF M05, try opening the sample data file and then do an Internet Update to
get all of the patches to Money. Then try upgrading your old data file
again.

M04 might be a better choice, if you can find a copy. See the results of my
M05 due diligence at http://umpmfaq.info/Money2005.htm.

"Richard C." <Richard C.[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8FFD13C0-6BAB-4E54-BD22-106914243CE7[at]microsoft.com...
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Best suggestion I have is to get your money back.
Read the comments in the thread "Upgrading from Deluxe to Standard" which is
five conversations below this one. There are more conversations in the last
two weeks agreeing with me.

"Richard C." wrote:

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I've been using Money 99 happily for many years. However, I figured it was
time to upgrade. So far, big mistake. I have been able to convert one of my
smaller files, but on the larger file it always craps out during the
conversion with a "Microsoft Money has experienced an internal error..." I
have looked online and tried the msmoney -s and the salvage.exe utilities, to
no avail. If I don't get this fixed fast, I'm going to go for the 30 day
money back garuntee.