Thanks all. I didn't loose anything but time, because I had to reinstall 006.
My experience should serve as a warning, however.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, W' wrote:

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It sounds as if you might be trying to open a Money 2007 file with
an older version of Money.

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You need to reinstall Money 2006, find the *.m15 file that Money
2007 saved as a copy of your Money 2006 file, and copy that to
*.mny. Open that file with your reinstalled Money 2006.

Definitely not the norm, something related to your system. You should call
support.

The lesson of backup up your Money file before upgrading it can be a very hard
one to learn.

W' <W[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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I thought I would try 007 out and so downloaded it. It looks very much the
same as 2006 but it may have been faster. The new simple budget thing is
pretty stupid, as is the hype MSN story about it. Hasn't anyone ever heard of
'pay yourself first' budgeting?? I digress.

I left the program and tried to start it up again. It wants a password??? I
don't use a password. The file it was trying to open was at the end of a very
long pathname so I don't know what it was trying to open, but have to assume
it was the one that was just converted from 006. But I don't use a password.
I tried my Passport password (but it doesn't know my account name, nor is
there a place to enter it). I tried a bunch of my common passwords, and I
used some raunchy ones when I got frustrated. So I quit, and uninstalled 007.

Oops. The uninstall process has corrupted my copy of 006, it seems. I
purposely left 006 on the disk so I could look at both. Stupid me I guess;
but once again MS seems to be total boobs when it comes to consumer software.
Maybe they get paid too much to care. But in any event, I've got some
application fixing to do thanks to my little experiment. 006 aint great, but
it is the devil I know.