Art,

For your second item, M07 incorporated a "feature" that automatically
reconciles investment account downloads for which there are no new
transactions (i.e. positions only). There is no option to toggle this
feature and early feedback on it was generally positive.

As for your first item, once the update is complete ("spinning icon
stops"), Money does perform transaction matching and other background
tasks but are you saying you get the warning message after waiting 15
minutes? If I understand you correctly, your observation is similar
to mine in that it is best to wait for Money to complete the
aforementioned background tasks before viewing downloaded statements.
The length of time this takes appears to be directly related to file
size and system performance. I check my CPU Usage % since it appears
Money maxes it out until it is done. I've even observed it "falling
asleep" (CPU zero%) when auto-reconciling investment positions where
movement of the mouse is enough to wake it back up and finish.

If you hadn't noticed this before and don't mind checking, see if your
situation is similar. It may shed some light on the behavior you're
seeing.

Regards,
JB


On Feb 18, 10:31 am, "Art McClinton" <art.mcclin...[at]cox.net> wrote:
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I remember see other complaints about this but do not remember seeing a
solution.

I am running Money 2007 on XP Home Media edition. Both are at the latest SP
level. All of my downloads are direct (I do not have MSN password on the
system).

When I perform an update I notice the following behavior.

1) After the updating now spinning icon stops (and today it stopped and I
waited 15 minutes); the first account that I attempt to accept a transaction
I am notified that I can not at the present time. All I need to do is back
arrow to the original page and come back into the account at try again and
this time it works. I did "report it to MS" but the response always is that
they have no information about some obscure res error.

2) My various Fidelity accounts always report with number of stocks/mutual
funds to check. When I check the first one of these accounts and accept the
current account status, the remainder of the account to view disappear.

Obviously, the first item is getting a little old. I reported it to the MS
help but the response was they closed it as not reproducible. They seem to
be more interested in closing paperwork than fixing problems.

Art