Thanks Cal for your reply; very much appreciated!

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In microsoft.public.money, PWalker wrote:

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I don't know, but congratulations on your technique of isolating and
correcting the problem.

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Unless you use Money 2006 which will save unique backups, I think
that is not a good strategy. You don't want to overwrite your only
good backup. The following is my suggestion if using Money 2005 or
before:

In Tools-> Options-> Backup [M05: Tools-> Settings-> BackupOptions]
I suggest checking
x Automatically backup to hard disk on exit
x Prompt me before backing up each time*
x Make my file small ... (but full size is good too)

Then periodically, perhaps once per month or more, copy your
latest backup (named differently from your earlier backups) to a
CDR. With XP, this can be a copy and paste operation. Otherwise
use the burning software that came with your CDR drive.

I strongly suggest use of a USB Flash drive also, in addition to
backing up to your hard drive. They typically act like a big
floppy. For a more automated way to make multiple backups, see
Glyn Simpson's method at http://money.mvps.org/backup.aspx


* This has two advantages. You can change the file name
occasionally. I like to pick a name something like money050915.
Then it is easy to change the name to have multiple backups. The
..mbf extension is automatic. The other advantage is that you can
choose "Don't Back Up, or you change your mind about exiting by
simply clicking the X in the upper right of the pop-up box.

Hi,

I noticed recently that I got a "This operation cannot be performed." error
whenever I started Money. The error details told me to run the Money file
Repair tool to fix the problem. I did a level 2 repair and the report
produced said "No broken records in the original file.". I still got errors
when I closed and further tried to reopen the file.

I then went into 'Bills' and started to delete a bill, then close/reopen
Money to see the effect. It came down to a single bill. I duplicated this
bill and deleted the original, now Money is working ok and not reporting a
"This operation cannot be performed." error.

Could someone tell me why this error originated in the first place? Is this
common? I cant understand why Money is this prone to error. Does this mean
that Money could be calculating stuff incorrectly like transactions and cash
flows etc?

I have now set up Money to make an uncompressed backup to HDD whenever I
close.

Any help most appreciated!

cheers,
peter