In microsoft.public.money, Al V wrote:

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The DEP thing is a good thing to try.

Here is a long shot that will not hurt:

Open a file that you can open, such as Sample.mny.
Tools-> Settings-> ProgramSettings-> (DisplayStartMoneyWithThisPageOpen:AccountList.

Then try your main .mny file once or twice to see if it opens.

And in case your 3 month file is your only alternative, consider
restoring that to a different name now, and doing online updates
from your FIs now. That way there will be fewer transactions you
will have to enter by hand because the FI may only present
transactions that are a couple months old. It varies by FI.

I expect you will review your backup policy including raising the
number of backups that Money keeps from the default of 4 to maybe
50-- depending on disk space. Make your scheduled backup maybe every
two weeks to a USB flash drive.



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Thank You. No I haven't tried running the repair from a command as you
suggest. Crash is the same as described by "do not buy money 2008" posting.
Will try disabling DEP, MS finally sent me some more suggestions that I will
try. MS tech feels problem was caused by sharing the file on Windows Home
Server, though I never got far enough to access it from other workstation,
and did not have the problem until the online banking update. Tthanks again.

"Al V" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Al V wrote:

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First, use Help-> About to be sure that your version is 2007 version
is 16.0.*.1303.

Don't overwrite any good backups. Don't overwrite the *.mny file
that you hope to repair. Make extra copies now. Use different
filenames when you restore. Don't use the default name.

What steps have you done already? Did you use salv.exe or
File-> RepairMoneyFile-> StandardFileRepair level 2 to make what you
hope will be a repaired version of your latest .mny file?

If you have been guided thru all of this before, then there is
probably no more help to offer.

I can't get any of my money files or backups to open. Money just starts to
open then says it has to close. This since their online banking update.
When it crashes it evidently changes the backups to a corrupted, the latest
backup I can open is over 3 months old. Microsoft just says the files are
corrupted and I have to start all over. I've tried to open the files on two
Vista machines, and an XP machine. Why would Money have corrupted my files,
and why won't MS help with this?