"Blaw" <Blaw[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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You forgot to say SERIOUS pia, but yes, you seem to understand the process.

The prevention is to put a stop date in the bill before deleting it. In 06,
when you put in a stop date, it must have at least one remaining event. The
workaround is, before putting in the stop date, tell money you want to edit
an individual bill date. Edit the extra date (the one remaining when you
put in a stop date) to $0. Then, after editing and saving, put in the stop
date and process the remaining $0 bill.

It may not be possible to put in a stop date after editing an individual
date. It may not be possible to edit an individual date if there is only
one remaining. You may have to put in a stop date for TWO remaining events,
then edit both to $0.

Don't edit the entire bill to $0, because it will have a retroactive effect
on your budget. Edit only individual dates.

Play with this a little and report your experience.

If the future amounts of a scheduled bill change, for example, your cable
TV rates go up, don't edit the bill because of the same problem. Put in a
stop date and create a new one for the new amount, starting with the first
payment date after the previous bill expires.. Heed the warnings above.

Did I say **SERIOUS** PIA?
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

OK I think I see the answer on the work around. Correct me if I'm wrong but
it looks like I need to go into categories view. For each of the categories
on my paycheck (fica, ss, medicare, med insurance, dental, fSA, 401k, etc.
what a pain in a**) create a new category (i.e. "fica (2)", "ss (2)", and so
on) move all transactions out of those accounts into the new category then
delete the old category.

Then somehow that breaks the links in my budget and I can go back and view
the budget and it should be fixed.

"Chris Cowles" wrote:

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How do I do that resolution when I've already deleted the deposit from the
bills and deposit list?

Now that I think about it that may be the problem. I imported from my
original categorized paycheck from quicken and then set up a new one using
Money's wizard. Then I deleted all the transactions from my check register
with the quicken categorized deposit as well as deleted the actual recurring
deposit under bills and deposits. Then I replaced all of them with the new
categorized paycheck I set up with MS money.

"Chris Cowles" wrote:

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Did you NEVER delete an instance of your paycheck from the bill summary?
I've not heard of the budget except in that case, or if it's set up
incorrectly. That doesn't mean there could never be corruption. This is
Money, after all.
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL


"Blaw" <Blaw[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Will that fix solve my problem even thought it isn't with a deleted recurring
bill or deposit. My problem is that after I set up my recurring paycheck
whenever I look at my current month budget my income is doubled? Every other
view seems to be correct (i.e. when I drill down to the detial income matches
my monthly paycheck, or when I look at yearly budget income matches my yearly
salary), it's just the current month budget view so I can't get a realistic
picture of how my financial situation is for the month.

"Chris Cowles" wrote:

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The problem is not yet fixed in 2006. The workaround is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823215/en-us

"Blaw" <Blaw[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Did you find an answer? I have a similar problem with Money 2004. I set up my
paycheck with the paycheck wizard. Now when I view my current month budget my
income is doubled. Yet when I drill down to income detail it is correct or
when I view yearly budget my salary matches my yearly salary.

You mentioned later versions of money. Has someone told you this problem is
corrected in later versions. I might just upgrade because I like everything
else about money.



"CJ" wrote:

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I've run into a nasty little bug in Money 2004 which I understand is common
to several versions: amounts for budget categories doubled.

I understand this has something to do with deleted transactions still being
tracked.

For software claimed to be "robust," that doesn't seem all that trustworthy.

Is there a fix for this aside from deleting all of my financial records and
re-entering them? (I have no plans to upgrade to a newer version of Money)

Thanks,
CJ