Just one word of caution. When you manually download a transaction update
file from a financial institution and you do not have Money already opened,
it will ask whether you want to open Money and import the file. If you say
Yes, the Money Import Handler will always open Money in the last file you
had open and import the transactions into that file. AFAIK, there is no way
around this behavior, so be careful.
--
Peace,
BobJ

"BBran" <bbran[at]notell.net> wrote in message
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Yes, and thanks for your help.

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
message news:uHNzxwVnHHA.4032[at]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
See --> comments below.

"BBran" <bbran[at]notell.net> wrote in message
news:u9qyJSUnHHA.596[at]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
This is what I put in the target box:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money 2006\MNYCoreFiles\msmoney.exe" in
"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money
Files\Brannons.mny"

Is that what you meant? Probably not because it did not work, it still
opened the last opened file.

---"in" means what directory to default the app to. That's not what he meant.
What he meant was setting target to the total string:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money 2006\MNYCoreFiles\msmoney.exe"
"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money
Files\Brannons.mny"
and not setting anything in the in box.
The form Bob suggests is a command--run memoney--and a parameter to that
command--your data file name--to pass to the commanded program at startup.
---
So I tried this in the Target Box:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money
Files\Brannons.mny"

and it did work. Is the latter what you meant?

--That's not what Bob meant, but it is what Computerflyer meant. That also
works, but here's why: it tells the operating system you want to open the
Money data file "Brannons.mny" and leaves it up to the operating system to
figure out how to do that. Since the .mny file type is a "registered" file
type that the operating system knows how to open, this works. It's like
double-clicking on a .txt or .doc file. The OS has been told, by you or,
more typically, by the application's installer, that when asked to open a
..xyz file, here's how to start an application that knows what to do with an
..xyz file and here's how to tell that app that the specific .xyz file you
double clicked on is the one you want to open with the registered app.

Both will work.

Of the two, my preference is the latter since it leaves where the app is and
how to tell the app about the file you want to open up to the operating
system and the application's installer and the file type registration
system. That's what all that stuff is there for in the first place. Using
the former will, for instance, cause the short cut to break if you install
M07 since the shortcut explicitly references ...\Microsoft Money 2006\...
The latter form of shortcut will continue to work fine after installing M07.

Make sense?

Yes, and thanks for your help.

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in message news:uHNzxwVnHHA.4032[at]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
See --> comments below.

"BBran" <bbran[at]notell.net> wrote in message
news:u9qyJSUnHHA.596[at]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
This is what I put in the target box:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money 2006\MNYCoreFiles\msmoney.exe" in
"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money
Files\Brannons.mny"

Is that what you meant? Probably not because it did not work, it still
opened the last opened file.

---"in" means what directory to default the app to. That's not what he meant.
What he meant was setting target to the total string:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money 2006\MNYCoreFiles\msmoney.exe"
"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money
Files\Brannons.mny"
and not setting anything in the in box.
The form Bob suggests is a command--run memoney--and a parameter to that
command--your data file name--to pass to the commanded program at startup.
---
So I tried this in the Target Box:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money
Files\Brannons.mny"

and it did work. Is the latter what you meant?

--That's not what Bob meant, but it is what Computerflyer meant. That also
works, but here's why: it tells the operating system you want to open the
Money data file "Brannons.mny" and leaves it up to the operating system to
figure out how to do that. Since the .mny file type is a "registered" file
type that the operating system knows how to open, this works. It's like
double-clicking on a .txt or .doc file. The OS has been told, by you or,
more typically, by the application's installer, that when asked to open a
..xyz file, here's how to start an application that knows what to do with an
..xyz file and here's how to tell that app that the specific .xyz file you
double clicked on is the one you want to open with the registered app.

Both will work.

Of the two, my preference is the latter since it leaves where the app is and
how to tell the app about the file you want to open up to the operating
system and the application's installer and the file type registration
system. That's what all that stuff is there for in the first place. Using
the former will, for instance, cause the short cut to break if you install
M07 since the shortcut explicitly references ...\Microsoft Money 2006\...
The latter form of shortcut will continue to work fine after installing M07.

Make sense?

See --> comments below.

"BBran" <bbran[at]notell.net> wrote in message
news:u9qyJSUnHHA.596[at]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
This is what I put in the target box:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money 2006\MNYCoreFiles\msmoney.exe" in
"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money
Files\Brannons.mny"

Is that what you meant? Probably not because it did not work, it still
opened the last opened file.

---"in" means what directory to default the app to. That's not what he meant.
What he meant was setting target to the total string:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money 2006\MNYCoreFiles\msmoney.exe"
"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money
Files\Brannons.mny"
and not setting anything in the in box.
The form Bob suggests is a command--run memoney--and a parameter to that
command--your data file name--to pass to the commanded program at startup.
---
So I tried this in the Target Box:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money
Files\Brannons.mny"

and it did work. Is the latter what you meant?

--That's not what Bob meant, but it is what Computerflyer meant. That also
works, but here's why: it tells the operating system you want to open the
Money data file "Brannons.mny" and leaves it up to the operating system to
figure out how to do that. Since the .mny file type is a "registered" file
type that the operating system knows how to open, this works. It's like
double-clicking on a .txt or .doc file. The OS has been told, by you or,
more typically, by the application's installer, that when asked to open a
..xyz file, here's how to start an application that knows what to do with an
..xyz file and here's how to tell that app that the specific .xyz file you
double clicked on is the one you want to open with the registered app.

Both will work.

Of the two, my preference is the latter since it leaves where the app is and
how to tell the app about the file you want to open up to the operating
system and the application's installer and the file type registration
system. That's what all that stuff is there for in the first place. Using
the former will, for instance, cause the short cut to break if you install
M07 since the shortcut explicitly references ...\Microsoft Money 2006\...
The latter form of shortcut will continue to work fine after installing M07.

Make sense?

This is what I put in the target box:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money 2006\MNYCoreFiles\msmoney.exe" in "C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money Files\Brannons.mny"

Is that what you meant? Probably not because it did not work, it still opened the last opened file.

So I tried this in the Target Box:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Bob Brannon\Brannon's Documents\Money Files\Brannons.mny"

and it did work. Is the latter what you meant?

--

Respectfully,
Bob Brannon





"Bob Peel, MVP" <bob_peel[at]kiandra.freeserve.co.uk.INVALID> wrote in message news:O$21BBQnHHA.4132[at]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
Create a short cut on your desktop and edit that to add the full path (in "
") to the file you want to open in the Target box after the .exe entry.

--
Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.


I do not respond to any emails that I have not specifically asked for.

"BBran" <bbran[at]notell.net> wrote in message
news:eL6XTWMnHHA.3460[at]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
Hello,

Is there a way, perhaps in the shortcut for the program, to specify what
file Money 2006 opens on startup? I would like to make it always to be the
same rather than the last file opened.
--

Respectfully,
Bob Brannon

Create a short cut on your desktop and edit that to add the full path (in "
") to the file you want to open in the Target box after the .exe entry.

--
Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.


I do not respond to any emails that I have not specifically asked for.

"BBran" <bbran[at]notell.net> wrote in message
news:eL6XTWMnHHA.3460[at]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
Hello,

Is there a way, perhaps in the shortcut for the program, to specify what
file Money 2006 opens on startup? I would like to make it always to be the
same rather than the last file opened.
--

Respectfully,
Bob Brannon

Hello,

Is there a way, perhaps in the shortcut for the program, to specify what file Money 2006 opens on startup? I would like to make it always to be the same rather than the last file opened.
--

Respectfully,
Bob Brannon