Slight clarification... All of my testing was done on the M04
Sample file. And whenever I converted that to M07, it always mangled
the categories. But when I convereted my personal M04 file (the one
that I use daily) it doesn't mangle the categories during conversion.

On 2006-10-10, Mark Horn <mark[at]hornclan.com> wrote:
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I discovered something interesting in Money 07. M07 didn't mangle
the Food:* categories in my M04 file. And I don't know why.

At first, I thought it might have been because I had Food:Snacks
defined. But I tried converting the M04 file both with and without
that category and M07 mangled both Food:Groceries and Foodining
Out, while leaving Food:Snacks alone.

So I went back to my M04 file and tried re-converting it to M07.
It did not mangle those categories. Food:Groceries and Foodining
Out both still exist, and the non-subcategories Dining Out and
Groceries do not exist.

I also thought it might have been that there were transactions in
my M04 file and no transactions in the M04 sample file. But that
wasn't the case - the sample file was loaded with transactions in
those categories.

I looked at the category setings in my M04 file and the M04 sample
file. Both appear to be identical.

I'm out of ideas as to what to do to determine when the M07
conversion will mangle these categories and it won't. Anyone have
any ideas I should try?