In microsoft.public.money, M wrote:

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Money 2007 will only work with files from the US and Canadian
versions of Money.

Ive been using MSMoney 2004 on a laptop PC running Windows XP. I
recently bought a desktop PC running Windows Vista Home Premium, and
(separately) bought MS Money 2007.

I am planning to install MS Money 2007 onto my Vista machine when the
software arrives.

Meantime, I thought I would download a trial copy of MS Money 2007 -
rather than wait another week for the software to arrive. Once the
software arrives then I will activate it using the product key which
comes with my purchase.

Anyway, to the point ....

I installed the trial version of MS Money 2007 on Vista, started it up
and then waited for Money to download the program updates. Once the
program updates were installed, I copied the Money 2004 file onto
Vista and opened the file from Money 2007. Money 2007 duly tried to
convert the file, started and finished the process and then reported
an error message 'file created in an earlier version of Money and is
not compatible'.

Any ideas?

As a workaround, I uninstalled MS Money 2007 and installed a trial
vers of Money 2005. Allowed it to donwload the program update and ....
exactly the same problem.

Ok, I think the 2004 file is corrupt - but no it still loads on MS
Money 2004 on my notebook PC.

Is this because Im using a trial version, or is this something to do
with Vista?

M