Raghu wrote:
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Raghu,
STOP the archive attempt. Use your archive file as your current
file and destroy the file that Money created after archive. The process
does NOT do what you would normally expect it to do. It actually screws
up everything. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO ARCHIVE IN MONEY.
History is good to have for future reference. I have over 9 years of
data on my one current Money file. Reporting can always be set to show
you ONLY the time period you want to see. Good luck. Steve

In microsoft.public.money, Raghu wrote:

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1. Archive and specify a date.

2. Money makes a copy of your current Money file named
Archive......mny

3. Money removes non-investment transactions from the Money file,
and tries to adjust the Starting Balance of each account to
compensate.

4. Find out what Archiving does.

5. Regret archiving since it did not do what you hoped, and there is
no easy way to re-integrate the old data with the continuing file.

6. Relief that your archive file is a copy of your Money file before
archiving, and that you can go back to that.


All kidding aside, some people like archiving. It seems to fit some
sense of order. Trying to make your file significantly smaller is
not one of the real accomplishments. However the file will normally
get somewhat deflated if you continue with it.

I am using Money 2005 (Deluxe).

When I tried to archive all of my data prior to 2004, money created a file
that is bigger than current file. The current file still had all old data.
The arhive file help topic in the help documentation does not explain this
discrapency.

What is the exact process for archiving old data?

Thanks.
Raghu/..