Joseph,

Thank you for helping. I'm going to try exporting and importing QIF files
to see if that works any better.

Thanks again for helping.
Ed


"Joseph Meehan" wrote:

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Cal,

Thanks for the help. I'll look into the QIF exports and imports. If that
doesn't work, maybe its back to Quicken.

Thanks again for your help.
Ed


"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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Ed wrote:
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My largest Money file is about 10 megs. I like to keep it low because
Money tends to slow down with large files. It allows archiving however so I
just keep a year or two data and archive a year at a time. I don't know if
there is a max size. I could not find a reference to one.

In microsoft.public.money, Ed wrote:

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OK. For future reference, what are the standard US Quicken data
types? US Money standard types are Bond, CD or U.S. Savings Bond,
Employee Stock Option, Index, Money Market, Mutual Fund, Other,
Stock.


QIF export + import should work. You will lose a lot, but you should
have a very clean file if you do it.

If you want to do the QIF export/import, I would follow the steps
in http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;178830
except in the first step 4, I would suggest this: start the name of
the QIF file for the investment accounts with an underscore (_),
and start the name of QIF files for the cash accounts associated
with the investments with a letter. Thus you might have
_BrownInvestment.qif and BrownInvestmentCash.qif. This would cause
the investment account to be processed prior to the associated cash
account. When the BrownInvestment got created, you would specify
that you want to track the cash transactions. Then specify that
the cash transactions account for BrownInvestment was where the
BrownInvestmentCash.qif transactions get sent.

Then File-> Import ALL AT ONCE using Ctrl+<click> to select files.
Specify "New or Recovered" account when asked.

Of course you will use a different filename for the new file, and
you will have both versions to choose from when done. I would also
set up the backups to make sure they are using different names.




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Cal,

Did as suggested. In fact, I did additional steps in Quicken to try and
make the file smaller (end of year processes). Still no luck. As I said in
another post, it seems that teh conversion is getting to 128MB for the Money
file and then stopping the conversion process.

Any other thoughts?

Thank you.
Ed

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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Joseph,

I tried a clean Quicken file with test transactions -- no problems,
conversion OK.

It seems like the conversion process on my actual file gets to about 128MB
and then calls it quits. Maybe there is a file size limitation in Money?

Any other thoughts?

Thank you.
Ed

"Joseph Meehan" wrote:
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Cal,

I did do a validate prior to making the conversion attempt. I will remove
the password the next time as well (the conversion process did ask for the
password).

The only thing running during the process (which eats up 100% of available
CPU) is McAfee A/V and Windows itself.

I'll take a look a the 'super vailidate' as well.

I'll keep you posted.

Thank you.
Ed

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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Joseph,

The file is several years of data and is about 18MB. The computer has 512MB
RAM and plenty of disk space (new hard drive install).

I can attempt the new file conversion - just to confirm the process.

Will take a look later tonight and let you know.

Thank you.
Ed

"Joseph Meehan" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Ed wrote:

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Remove the password on your Quicken file, if any. Then do Validate
in Quicken. I think that is File-> Validate.

Rick Hess posted that in Quicken you can select File-> Copy, and let
it make a copy of your file. This routine will, among other
things, defragment your file. Then convert the copy.

Change all custom types to standard Quicken types. Any custom type
will be converted to type Mutual Fund by Money.

Consider having a minimum of other things running when you do
the conversion in Money.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;310560
describes Clean boot etc.

If the above are not successful, consider Super-Validate in
Quicken. Hold Ctrl+Shift keys down during the Validate process.
However http://www.intuit.com/support/quicke.../win/6148.html
warns of unneeded super-validate.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902463/en-us

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How large is the Quicken file? How many years data in it? How much RAM
does you computer have and how much free space on your hard drive?

If you still have Quicken installed, try making a new file (don't use
the same name as the existing one, in fact you may want to make a copy of
the existing one and store it somewhere else.) Now enter a couple of test
transactions and exit. Try converting that file.

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I'm trying to convert my Quicken 2004 file ito Money 2007 and it keeps
failing - it seems to move along alright, but then while "writing money
database" it failes with:

Your Quicken file could not be converted.

Money could not convert your Quicken file. You might have run out of
disk space or system memory.

Try closing other programs and making sure the disk you are copying
your file to has enough space. Then try converting the file again.

I know I have enough space, etc.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
Ed