As Bob points out, you need to get all of the Money programs up to the
current service level. (If the clients really do keep upgrading a .M12 file,
I'm guessing this isn't your issue.) The easiest way is to open the sample
file on each machine and then do an Internet Update.

An .M12 file WILL ONLY BE CREATED IF the file that you are opening is an M04
file--i.e., the file these clients are opening is NOT the already upgraded
M05 (v1 or v2 as the case may be) file you think it is.

You also need to make sure that the .MNY file created by the M04-> M05v2
upgrade is put back on the network share. (Are you sure, really sure, where
the upgrader is putting the upgraded file? It's not upgrading a file off a
share to a local My Documents or something like that, is it?)Were I you, I'd
not mess with creating the shortcuts until AFTER you get an upgraded file.
Shortcuts can be goofy about renamed files. But suit yourself.

I hope you are better about enforcing no simultaneous access than I have
been when I've tried this. Even forgetting that you left it open on the
other machine when the phone rang, walking off, and now opening it from the
machine upstairs can be corrupting. But suit yourself--and consider yourself
warned.

"Sarah" <Sarah[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Check the version nos of the Money programs on each PC in Help > About. They
should be 14.0.x.1105.

--
Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.
For wishes or suggestions see
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
or for UK wishes http://www.microsoft.com/uk/support/money/feedback

I do not respond to any emails that I have not specifically asked for.

"Sarah" <Sarah[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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The shortcuts are pointing to the .mny file. The .m12 files are being
created each time one of the computers is accessing the .mny file. This is
presumably happening during the conversion process. However the data was
converted to 2005 already - even before the file was put in the network
share.

There is not, nor will there be, simultaneous access - it will always be one
at a time.

"Dick Watson" wrote:

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The .m12 file is NOT, REPEAT NOT, the **new** file. One machine needs to
upgrade the file, saving a .M12 backup of the M04 version file. The new file
will be named "My Money.MNY" and this is the file the shortcuts need to
point to.

Beware: Money is not safe for multiple simultaneous access to the same data
file from different machines. If you do this, you will surely wind up with a
corrupted data files sooner rather than later. Consider yourself warned.

"Sarah" <Sarah[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I upgraded Money 2004 to 2005 on a machine, then opened the data file to
upgrade it. I then moved the .mny file to a network share, and created an
icon directly to that file on three computers (all have MM 2005). Each time
any of the computers go to open that file, it says it has to convert the
data. It appears to then create a new file, my moneyx.m12, which copies the
original data and adds whatever changes are made during that session. As a
result, I have multiple files, each with new changes. Why isn't it just
updating the original file? Thanks!