"Jeff P" wrote:
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2005 is the absolute worst.

I've used Money for years (since like '97 I think - the year, not the
version), and this is the worst version ever. I wouldn't have a problem with
the ads and useless crap they pump into my eyes on every page if it worked,
but it doesn't.

2005 AV'ed on me (i.e., crashed), and since then when I click on the pie
sections of the graphs, for half the transactions it shows an amount of #####
even though it knows the amount.

Half the time it doesn't update my online accounts properly. It seems to
get out of sync, and can never recover.

The whole program is confusing and overloaded with all kinds of fluff, and
they changed how a lot of the stuff worked for years. In the past, it kind
of made sense with the categories and things - now it's just a confusing mess.

I'm about 3 more 2005 screwups away from moving to Quicken. Yeah, Quicken
has issues, too, but all I want to do is download my bank transactions and
have my register updated automatically. It can't even do this right. That
should be fixed before they pump all this stuff in there that 90% of the
customers don't want or probably couldn't figure out.

I'll probably try 2006 when it comes out, but if it has the same issues I'm
never going to use Money again.

So, my advice is if the version you have is working, then don't upgrade.

M2005 is DEFINITELY NOT worth the upgrade. I ended up rolling back to 2004
after one week. Corruption with backups, account synch problems, and many
other problems also seen by other users on this forum. I have been with
Money since 2001, and this upgrade is the worst. I am going to remain on
2004 until I see if MS gets their act together with M2006 before paying
anymore money for a beta quality product that now also forces me to route my
personal financial information through their services. The lack of updates
and fixes, and a support team that doesn't seem to be able to do anything to
provide fixes to these critical problems that loyal migrating customers are
seeing is very frustrating to say the least.

"Jeff P" wrote:

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I think the bottom line was to wait. When 06 is released, a judgment can be
made at that time.

"Kevin Campbell" <kcampbel[at]nospam.midmaine.com> wrote in message
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Who's to say that will be any better! If MS does what it has been with each
new version of Money, 06 will be more web dependent and less functional than
ever. With no bugs fixed and new ones introduced.

Kevin

"Geer" <geer_jim[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Keep using Money 04. Too many bugs in 05 and your bank may still not be
functional. Wait for 06 version.

My experience with Money 2005 has been negative from the beginning. To
start, the upgrade process didn't complete properly which caused the reports
section to be inoperable until I spent three hours on the phone with MS Money
tech support (the reps were very helpful I must say) to get the installation
just right so that it could complete properly.

Once the installation was successful, I ran into issues with the automatic
download process that created entries in my accounts that I was never able to
resolve and finally just decided to live with.

The final straw was when Money "experienced an internal error" and had to
shut down. Repairing my money file didn't solve the problem. To be honest,
I'm tired of troubleshooting and not really interested in wasting any more
time with this product.

My advice is that Money 2005 is definitely not worth the upgrade.

Tim


"Jeff P" wrote:

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My due diligence on M05 is captured at http://umpmfaq.info/Money2005.htm.
YMMV.

"Jeff P" <jeffpNO[at]SPAMruralramp.net> wrote in message
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My credit union is on the list of institutions that support the direct
statements feature, but only if I upgrade to Money 2005 for some reason.
Currently I can download the statements from the website in Money 2004, but
this is an extra task I have to keep up with every month.

I have heard there are some problems with the 2005 version. Would it be too
much trouble to upgrade? Should I keep what I have?

-Jeff