On 17 Dec 2005 11:48:41 -0800, "tinkynan" <dvchetta[at]charter.netwrote:

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Thank you for your question as I am pondering an "upgrade" from M04 to
M06 (thank God I didn't fool with M05!). Good input thus far...


--Howie

"tinkynan" <dvchetta[at]charter.net> wrote in message
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It's a significant task and, labor notwithstanding, you need to know your
way around Money pretty well before considering it. While I'm not happy that
it was apparently necessary, the effort was worth it to me.

Thaks a lot for all your replies.

It looks like M06 is an improvement over M05 from your comments, though
it is not absolutely clear if it is an improvement over M04.

I am quite intrigued by the performance improvement Kevin and Chris
reported with export/import though I shudder at the manual adjustments
that need to be done. I will attempt it some day (not soon) and report
here what happened.

I can relate. I've been using Money since 2001. I had upgraded to version
2004 and liked it a lot. Then, I upgraded to 2005. I went from Feb of '05
thru Nov '05 of not putting in any entries other than invoices from my
business, mainly because the '05 version was slow, and setting up a budget
was next to impossible. It had other quirks in it, so I all but gave up for
nearly a year.

Nov '05 I created a very, very extensive spreadsheet to give me a dashboard
on my finances and had it worked out so that what I did today would show the
effects over the next 12 months. It was a lot of work, but it gave me exactly
what I needed. By the first week of Dec '05 I clearly saw how much work it
was going to be so I came to this forum to get some questions answered.

Thank you people, on this forum for having the answers I was looking for. I
decided to do some research on Money 2006 and Quicken, along with other
accounting software before making the ultimate attempt at getting my finances
in order. I downloaded trial version of Money 2006 (Quicken didn't have a
trial version to download) and put in all my information from November and
first week of December. Once I had all of that in, I began to see there were
a lot of improvements with the functionality of 2006. I am thankful I didn't
switch to Quicken!!!!!

For the past two weeks, I did nothing but bring all my accounts current in
the 2005 version, reconciled everything, got all the bills and deposits setup
so that I can work with cashflow properly and then upgraded to 2006. I have a
very thorough picture of my finances, thanks to you guys and a debt reduction
plan started. I have my PDA updated and now, my financials are back on track
and I see when things will be tight. I can also plug in scenarios and see how
it affects balances 12 months (or more) down the road. I can also see how
tings are from one paycheck to the next! Sweet! It's also estimated my taxes
for me!!!! I am so prepared, I will be ready to do my income taxes in
January!!!!

Now, the hard work is behind me and I can focus on life. Keeping up with
money 2006 will be easy. For those who had problems with 2005 and having
quirky problems, update to 2006... it's well worth it. I now have a financial
roadmap ahead of me.

"Kevin" <nospam[at]nospam.com> wrote in message
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Agreed. I've made the same statement myself several times in this forum.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

Chris,
I've also done the import/export thing in the past.
It is absolutely a lot of work and can get very confusing and complicated
when dealing with investment accounts that have associated cash accounts.
In my case my Money file size went from around 14MB down to around
5MB with a definite performance improvement.
Sometimes it's the only way to get rid of the "baggage" but it's NOT a
feat for the novice Money user.
-Kevin
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"Kevin" <nospam[at]nospam.com> wrote in message
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For my Money file dating from several versions ago, Money 2006 was unable to
repair it sufficiently after conversion to allow it to work properly. I
ended up rebuilding it by exporting everything and reimporting to a new
file. Lots of work, including manual re-entry of a lot of stuff but, for me,
worth it in the end. It made 06 work right, and dramatically improved
performance. There apparently was a lot of baggage, corrupt or not, that
simple conversion simply carried from version to version. Export/import to
have stripped all that out.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

tinkynan,

I too had M04, bought M05, tried it, almost immediately uninstalled
it and threw it away.

M06 in my opinion is as good as M04.

I don't know if you've ever gone through the rigors of trying to repair a
corrupt file with M04 but M06 attempts to repair itself when it detects
corruption. I've had good results with this so far. A nice improvement.

For me the cost of M06 is worth it for the continued investment downloads.

-Kevin


"Steve" <sjcohen730[at]aol.com> wrote in message news:1134851683.165753.252460[at]g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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tinkynan wrote:
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If you are happy with Money 2004, why change? I find it interesting
that you decided to buy Money 2005 when Money 2006 was already out. It
is a somewhat improvement over 2005. I hope you didn't pay more than
$25 for Microsoft Money. It is a great product if you know how to use
it to manage your personal finances and don't just want to download
data from banks and brokerages. Anyway, good luck. Steve

I upgraded from M04 to M05 3 months ago and after going through hell, I
got rid of Money 2005 and went back to Money 2004. Money2005 is
unbearably slow and locks up frequently and that is just minor
irritants. It screwed up my investment transactions with no hope of
fixing it. For those who haven't tried yet, save yourself time even if
you have a free copy. Money2005 is a piece of garbage.

My question to those you who switched from Money2005 to Money 2006 is,
is there any point in upgrading to Money2006? Or, should I just stick
to my dear old 2004 version.

TIA for any responses.