That sounds very reasonable. Lots of copies. In several different places.

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"woppenhe" <woppenhe[at]ucla.edu> wrote in message
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I let Money back up automatically to hard drive on exit, no compression,
save 30 (disk is cheap), ask first. Every 14 days it backs up to a removable
drive (USB), compress, save 3, ask first. From time to time I put a copy on
the same USB drive. Also, occasionally, I restore to a temp file just to
make sure it works.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

I have so many backups, I have trouble keeping track of them. Both on and
off site, in thumb Drives, in laptops, on CD, etc. All documents are
backed up automatically 2x per week to different external hard drives (in
case of hard drive failure), but I try to carry one copy with me so if the
home is destroyed in an earthquate or fire, not everything is in the home.
In reality, the brokerage sites and the bank sites serve as backups as well,
but the information is better organized in Money, all in one place. What do
you do for backups? As the experts. I take your point about the copy
verses backup. It is clear that a money backup restores the file. A copy
is the file. The computer backup programs make copies both of the mny and
mbf files, but calls them backups. It all gets very confusing. I simply
copy the mny file to the laptop or to a disk and then, when necessary--which
is hardly ever--copy it back.



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"woppenhe" <woppenhe[at]ucla.edu> wrote in message
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You're missing the point. Archiving won't make much difference because it
won't reduce the size much. After archiving, you may ask yourself why you
bothered.

If you really want to do this, make a copy (not a backup) of your file,
first.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

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Do not expect the file to get much smaller or faster from archiving.
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Yes, that is the ifo I was looking for. Thanks. I was worried that
archiving might alter soe of the ong term info about the portfolio. If it
is just the Banking stuff, that is not necessary to retain.

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"woppenhe" <woppenhe[at]ucla.edu> wrote in message
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If your file is that large due to investment transactions, archiving will
have minimal effects. What gets purged is bank, credit, and 'other' account
transactions. Investment transaction are largely retained. I think it's so
ROI calculations can be done.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

M06 Prem

Are you advising not to archive. After many years of investing I have
a large file 85 M or so. thanks for your advice. HOw do lyou have the time
to continually look at the Newsgroup?

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, woppenhe wrote:

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It is like the Quick file repair, but works across all versions. You
did not state what version of Money you had.


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Did you delete the statement?

Also, consider keeping extra copies of your file while making these
changes, in case you want to undo something.

You may also want to see this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...ae6082bf90ead2


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I had done the dlection of the temp internet files, but not the msmoney -s.
Exactly what does that do. You responded so quickly, but even at that, I
had already enetered some transactions by hand becasue some of the messages
were to the effect that after downloading and deleting the unread
statements, these same statements would not again be dowloaded. Now I am up
to date, so I may have to wait for some more transactions to post to see if
your fix worked. I will let you know. In my meanderings I did get it to do
transaction up to the 16th of Dec, and one from yesterday. I could not get
the ones in between, so I enetered them manually (what a pain).

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Close Money

In Internet Explorer delete your browser temporary files with
Tools-> InternetOptions-> DeleteFiles.

Then open Money with Start-> Run and entering
"msmoney -s" without the quotes into the box.

Since the first of the year, I have been able to download the statements and
note that there are 48 transactions to be read, but I cannot see or accept
any of those transactions in the register. They simply are not shown. Is
anyone else having this issue. I can delete the statement, but on
redownloading, I still cannot do anything but note that there is a statement
to read. I cannot in fact read it.