OK, I think I found the answer. Once I entered all of the missing cash
transactions by editing the corresponding investment transactions, the
accout began working the same as the others. I think when you enter a new
transaction, Money copies some of the details, like the transfer account,
from the last transaction you entered in that account. So sometime in the
distant past, I must have inadvertently cleared the transfer account box,
and all of the transactions entered since then had no transfer account
associated with the transaction. I've gone back and tested this theory be
entereing transactions with and without a transfer account and the theory
seems to hold.

Thanks for your help, Cal.

Tom McFarland


"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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All transactions, all dates, sorted by date. It's always been that way.
The problem is not with the View

Perhaps I should have written the original post differently. The problem I
described near the end of the post, i.e. that the transfer to/from account
box is blank, no doubt caused the failure to record the transactions in the
cash account. If I manually select the cash account when entering a
transaction, the cash transaction is recorded. In fact, I have since added
the missing cash transactions by editing the corresponding investment
transactions and adding the transfer account to the transaction detail.

So the question is, why does the transfer to/from box come up blank for this
one account, when for all others it's pre-populated with the correct cash
account? BTW, I am aware that there is a setting to require that I populate
the transfer account, but I'd still like to know why this one account
behaves differently.

Tom McFarland

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

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So on the line that starts "View" you see what?

Try Ctrl+T a couple times. Probably won't help, but it won't hurt.

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

If that does not fix it, try salv.exe level 2.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902466/en-us



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Already did that. The transactions just are not there.



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In microsoft.public.money, Tom wrote:

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Try setting the View at the top of the register to AllTransactions.

Using Money 2003.

I only use it for investments. I have several investment accounts set up.
Recently I noticed that one of them stopped tracking transactions in the
cash account (but, sell, dividend, etc.). I checked the settings and 'allow
cash transactions' is checked in the account details. The cash transaction
register is there but the last transaction is from 2005. The settings
appear to be the same as all of the other accounts, which record cash
transactions correctly. When I enter a transaction in a working account,
the 'transfer to/transfer from' box appears with the name of the correct
associated cash account already in it. When I enter a transaction in the
'broken' account, the 'transfer to/from' box appears, but is blank. I have
to select the cash account from the dropdown list. Why the difference in
behavior? What am I missing?

Tom McFarland