In microsoft.public.money, Cal Learner-- MVP wrote:

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Forget that part. Looking back, I see you did try using a Money 2004
install to restore that backup file.

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In microsoft.public.money, Julie wrote:

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OK. It is not named *d?.mbf. So it would not have been a multi-part
backup. So I don't know why the error message.

You could try installing the old Money 2004 trial onto a different
computer, and see if you could File-> Restore. That would be to check
to see if the problem was with the installation or with the .mbf
file. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913108/en-us under the
heading WORKAROUND. I suggest doing that with a different computer
to be sure you don't interfere with the current install.


Don't restore to the default location, but browse to the new
location.

I'm assuming (probably wrongly) that somewhere in the many times I've
backed up this money file that I'd have been notified that it was in
multiple parts? I've always backed it up to my external hard drive.

MS support seems to think the file is corrupt but was unable to tell
me for sure anything, really.

The name of the file I was trying to restore is "Julie's Money
Backup.mbf" it's 7698 KB.

In microsoft.public.money, julie.strange wrote:

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The files would be named The files would be named *d1.mbf, *d2.mbf,
*d3.mbf and so on, if they were copied from removable media such as
floppies.

What is the name of the file that you started the restore attempt
with?

Suppose you had your stack of floppies. I would copy each file from
the backup floppies to the same directory/folder. This will give
you an extra backup and will separate any problems of reading the
floppy media from some other potential problem. This is not the
common way, and it is not usually necessary. But especially if it
is my only backup, I would consider the copy to hard disk step.


The files will be named *d1.mbf, *d2.mbf, *d3.mbf and so on.

In WE, double-click the *d1.mbf file. That should launch Money and
start the restore. When Money prompts for the next diskette, click
OK.

If you are restoring directly from floppy diskette, you can insert
the first floppy and double click the *d1.mbf file. Change
diskettes when prompted.

You will have a chance to change the location or filename for where
the restored data will go. If this is a different computer, it is
especially good to browse to a location. The old location may not
even exist.

I recently had to replace my hard drive. I installed Money (04 Deluxe)
and tried to restore my Money back up that was on an external hard
drive.

I got this error:

"Please insert next backup disk. (The disk containing file "".)"

Probably the most useless error message ever since a) i'm pretty sure
this is the entire backup and b) it doesn't tell me what file it's
talking about.

I realized that my previous Money file might have been from Money 2001
Standard so I uninstalled Money 04, installed Money 01, and tried to
restore the file again. Same error message.

Any ideas?