In microsoft.public.money, Ken wrote:

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Archive makes/is a copy of your file as it existed at the time of
archive, and removes non-investment older transactions from the
continuing file. An archive file is named something like "2006
Archive.mny".

Those who expect the file to be significantly smaller or faster
after archiving are usually disappointed. Some expect a way to
re-integrate old an new transactions. Those people, like the great
majority, should not archive.

A backup file is named something like *.mbf.

Money 2006 and newer make more than one backup file. With earlier
versions, the user should do this manually, plus should be sure to
back up to more than one media, such as USB flash drive; what if the
hard drive crashes?

Well, dumb as I am, trusting Microsoft Money, I did have a current backup
and I did restore it almost immediately. Now, tell me the backup restore
function doesn't work and I'll go buy Quicken after using Money since the
day it came out!!

"Steve" <sjcohen730[at]aol.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 30, 7:02�am, "Ken" <krlor...[at]comcast.net> wrote:
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Ken,
You really screwed up your Money file by archiving. If you
really did this before in 2004 you probably have no idea what you are
really doing or why you are doing it. I am sorry my reply is so cruel,
but this newsgroup has been telling Money users for years DO NOT
ARCHIVE. The process does not do what a normal person thinks it should
do. It really screws up your history and has no real benefits. I doubt
you can recover from this unless you are willing to do a lot of manual
reentry. I'll leave it it one of the regulars to explain to you that
the best way to save ALL your data in Money is to just backup your
file regularly. Good luck to you. Steve

On Apr 30, 7:02�am, "Ken" <krlor...[at]comcast.net> wrote:
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Ken,
You really screwed up your Money file by archiving. If you
really did this before in 2004 you probably have no idea what you are
really doing or why you are doing it. I am sorry my reply is so cruel,
but this newsgroup has been telling Money users for years DO NOT
ARCHIVE. The process does not do what a normal person thinks it should
do. It really screws up your history and has no real benefits. I doubt
you can recover from this unless you are willing to do a lot of manual
reentry. I'll leave it it one of the regulars to explain to you that
the best way to save ALL your data in Money is to just backup your
file regularly. Good luck to you. Steve

I have not archived my Money file for a couple of years - last archive was
"2004 Archive.mny". I tried creating an archive using Money 2006 today and
I got a file called "2006 Archive.mny" -so far so good. I told Money to
back up all transactions prior to 1/1/2007. I checked all the accounts it
showed me. Unfortunately the sized of my active Money file did not change
and it would appear that no entries were deleted. The file is the same size
as before the archive process. I opened the Archive file and it looks like
there are "random" entries - some accounts have transactions from prior to
2007 and some accounts have only transactions from April 2007!! Where did I
go wrong? I know previous versions of Money let me archive and it did what
I thought it should do - at least get rid of the old entries that did not
effect an asset account.