Here's a way I found to reset the budget when there are "phantom" expenses
lurking around and preventing you from switching to advanced mode. Nothing
else seemed to work

Go to the budget tab.
Click on Edit expenses in the sidebar
Remove ALL categories (should say Total: $0) then click done
Now if you still have phantom expenses in your budget, and can't go to the
Advanced Budget, do the following

Click on the Budget vs. Spending subtab
Make note of any phantom categories you see remaining in your budget (these
are what you need to get rid of)
Somehow, get to the Categories & Payees window (banking-> account tools-> ....)
For every category (subcategory) that you noted was a phantom in the budget:
- double click the (sub)category
- move all transactions to some temporary category (use only top-level
categories, no subcategories)
- when finished, click done
- from the Categories & Payess window, delete the phantom (sub)category
- when it asks for a new category to put the deleted stuff in, choose the
temporary category you just moved the transactions to

After doing this for all phantom categories, go back to the budget tab.
Click on Edit expenses in the sidebar
You should now see the temporary categories - the phantoms have materialized!
Remove all the categories and click done

This should have fully reset your budget. Move your transactions from the
temporary categories back to where they belong and rebuild your budget again
from the ground up.

This worked for me. Hope it helps for you too.



"Greg" wrote:

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Sorry for the previous blank post.

I think I have a solution to your problem.

Go to the budget tab.
Click on Edit expenses in the sidebar
Remove ALL categories (should say Total: $0) then click done
Now if you still have phantom expenses in your budget, and can't go to the
Advanced Budget, do the following

Click on the Budget vs. Spending subtab
Make note of any phantom categories you see remaining in your budget (these
are what you need to get rid of)
Somehow, get to the Categories & Payees window (banking-> account tools-> ....)
For every category (subcategory) that you noted was a phantom in the budget:
- double click the (sub)category
- move all transactions to some temporary category (use only top-level
categories, no subcategories)
- when finished, click done
- from the Categories & Payess window, delete the phantom (sub)category
- when it asks for a new category to put the deleted stuff in, choose the
temporary category you just moved the transactions to

After doing this for all phantom categories, go back to the budget tab.
Click on Edit expenses in the sidebar
You should now see the temporary categories - the phantoms have materialized!
Remove all the categories and click done

This should have fully reset your budget. Move your transactions from the
temporary categories back to where they belong and rebuild your budget again
from the ground up.

This worked for me. Hope it helps for you too.





"Greg" wrote:

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"Greg" wrote:

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Try moving them, or moving the category or sub category that contains them.
Alternatively, use find and replace to revise the transactions affected
first (to get them out of the categories), then move/delete, etc.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL


"Greg" <Greg[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I've tried the quick repair and the standard repair and still no luck. I
still have those 3 categories that have sub-categories that have
sub-categories below them. If there were a way to delete those 3 sub-sub
categories without Money shutting down, I think that would solve my problem.

Greg

"Richard Bollar" wrote:

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I suggest make a backup and run the file repair utilities at File: Repair
Money file.

I'd do quick file repair first and then standard file repair at level 2.

Please let us know if that fixes the problem. Since Money doesn't support
sub-sub categories, I'm hoping this will fix the problem.

--

"Greg" <Greg[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I'm having a problem in not being able to switch from essential budget to
advanced budget. I tried removing all budgeted items from the income and
expense areas from the essential budget. However, there are 3 categories
that I think are corrupt and I'm not able to remove them. I've checked the 3
categories and each one has a sub-category and the sub-categories have a
sub-sub category. For example, Insurance is the category, health is the
sub-category and a sub-category to health is prescriptions. When I try to
delete the category or the sub-category or the sub-sub category, Money 2006
shuts down. I think if I can delete those 3 categories with sub-sub
scategories, then I would be able to switch from an essential budget to an
advanced butdget and all my problems would be solved. How can I delete a
category with a sub-sub category?