"TomLouie" <TomLouie[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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There also may be reasons to intentionally not track certain
subcategories. I do that for imputed income on paychecks.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

Matt's solution works, I stumbled on it myself after Money wouldn't let me
switch back from Ess. to Adv Budgeting.

I think my budge got corrupted after Money helpfully noticed that a split
transaction with two different subcategories wasn't being tracked in my
budget, and offered to track them. I said yes and my probs began. In the
future, I'll decline that "helpful" offer.

Tom

Still nothing works!! Very frustrating - I've tried every type, I've repaid
the file, I've removed Money and reinstalled, and still nothing works.

Sometimes I really hate MS Money!!!!!

"Iowa chapman" wrote:

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This works, I was thinking of doing this before I started searching, but
thought ok maybe there is a easier solution on the MSN site. Needless to
say, this pain in da arse solution does work, and is the only thing I have
found that does work. Thanks for the post.

Hopefully Microsoft will get it together to get this major bug fixed. What
a pain, supposed to make our life easier not more of a headache.



"matt" wrote:

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Matt -

That worked. Thanks for the post.
--
Seth


"matt" wrote:

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Here's a way I found to reset the budget when there are "phantom" expenses
lurking around. 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.



"mike" wrote:

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Same issue here, and I can't get it fixed. Tried the KB article ... no luck.
Repaired the file, no luck.

Any other ideas out there?

"Colety" wrote:

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Same issue here, budgeting is essentially useless now that it will not switch
to Advanced mode. Anyone any ideas? I too have tried repairing file and
deleting all income and expenses. Nothing works. You would think a budget
would be simple enough to make actually work!

"Carl K" wrote:

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I'll tell you, I have spent hours and hours trying to get this damn thing
working. Finally, I did. What I did was create a new Money file. Then, BEFORE
importing your QIF switch to the Advanced Budget. The problem is that if you
import first then you can't switch. But switching first seemed to work, at
least for me.

Now if I could only get the budget figures to make sense...

"rikmar67" wrote:

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did anyone ever get this thing to work? I've contacted Microsoft, bu
they aren't much more help than the KB file

I even went so far as to create a new money file and using th
export/import feature ... which is seriously lacking. i'm a smal
business user and all of the small business information is no
included with the export

maybe if i had 24 hours and 10,000mg of advil i could spend the tim
to re-key everything

I am having the same problem, can't switch to Advanced Budget. I removed all
income and expense items from the budget as the KB suggested. I even repaired
my database as suggested. Still no go. Whenever attempting to switch to
Advanced Budget it just goes right back to Essential Budget. Is there a
solution that really works?

"SteveC" wrote:

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Yeah, we all learn that the first time. Another feature that is useless
unless you do it permanently.
"big al" <bigal[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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this has happened to me too

unfortunately, you have to remove all your income and expenses, change to
advanced and start again!
useful, huh?

Allan

"Carl K" wrote:

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I found this in the Knowledge Base:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;899628

but this didn't work for me either.

"Carl K" wrote:

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I am also having this exact same problem. Repairing the Money file did not
change the results.

"Carl K" wrote:

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"Shadowz" wrote:

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indicated there were no broken records to fix....still have the problem.

"Carl K" <CarlK[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Try repairing your money file. I had this same problem a few days ago.
Different situation I was on machine B and was opening money file that was
located on share on machine A. Machine B isn't all that stable and crashed
while in money. I was playing around with the budget feature also switching
back and forth. After a crash I started money and went back to the budget
area and noticed I was in essential mode when I new before the crash I was
in advanced mode. I tried to switch back to advance mode to play around
with it again and it wouldn't switch. I restored from a previous backup and
it fixed the problem. However in your case the backup may also be corrupted
and repairing may be your only option.

I have already created a budget that is using essential budget mode. I want
to switch from essential to advance using the change settings link. When I
attempt to change, nothing happens. All other areas (bills/reports, etc)
that have the ability to switch between these modes will switch correctly.
What am I not doing?