I would suspect the reason Money has a problem is because the file is on
CD-R and thus not writeable. Once you copied it to your hard drive, the
problem obviously goes away.

Doug

"JZM" <memcord[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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The files are burned on a CD. I went ahead and tried your
suggestion of copying them onto the harddrive, and that
seemed to work. Thank you! I just always figured the
computer should be able to read them from the disk or CD.
Is there some reason why the computer wouldn't be able to
do that? (I don't think it is the CD--we have tried
several, plus tried ZIP disks and reg. floppy disks.)
Thanks again! (and in answer to the other question, yes, I
can create new files, but not sure if that is relevant
since my problem is solved--I hope!)
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Are the files on a floppy or on the harddrive? If on a floppy, copy them to
the harddrive, then try to open. Also, can you create a new file? If not,
what is the error?

"JZM" <memcord[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I had a question that I can't seem to resolve on the money
support page. We have Money 97 (5.0) and have never been
able to open any backup files we have made. Our computer
crashed once and we lost everything. The files are
recognized as money files, because when we click on them,
the Microsoft Money program opens, but then it
says, "There has been an error reading or writing the
file . . .[file name]." It then instructs us that we need
another file in order to fully open the program. What is
the problem? I don't want to lose everything again, and
if we get a new computer in the near future, I don't know
how we'll transfer the information. Even with files that
aren't specifically marked as "backup" copies, this same
problem occurs. Thanks for your help, should you be able
to help!