In microsoft.public.money, Dave wrote:

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Nicely done.

Looking back, I see it was Aug 21, 2003 when you posted your B of A
cure/workaround, so that would mesh well with MILTON's "fine until
about 3 weeks ago."

I'm having the same problem. In my case, the error lies in the end of
the ofx file. There is a repeated section that causes mismatched
tags:

</BANKTRANLIST<LEDGERBAL<BALAMT> xxxx.51
<DTASOF> 20030917120000
</LEDGERBAL</STMTRS</STMTTRNRS</BANKMSGSRSV1</BANKTRANLIST<LEDGERBAL<BALAMT> xxxx.51
<DTASOF> 20030917120000
</LEDGERBAL</STMTRS</STMTTRNRS</BANKMSGSRSV1</OFX
If you delete the one of the repeats, everything works:

</BANKTRANLIST<LEDGERBAL<BALAMT> xxxx.51
<DTASOF> 20030917120000
</LEDGERBAL</STMTRS</STMTTRNRS</BANKMSGSRSV1</OFX


via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx(Cal Learner-- MVP) wrote in message news:<29hfmvgcam8nlmuou4ibgfjs2ms4ba77bt[at]4ax.com> ...
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In microsoft.public.money, MILTON wrote:

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First, the problem is most likely the data from your bank.

You may or may not want to read further.


It is possible to get the data your bank is sending. As you click
to get internet updates and you get to the Connect button, hold down
the Ctrl+Shift keys as you click Connect. The OFX files will be of
the form *RS.txt. The point is that you could examine the files with
at text editor to see if they indeed do contain transactions or not.
The format may be somewhat obscure, but you still may be able to
make some sense of it.

Transactions are between these two tokens.

<STMTTRN</STMTTRN
You could make a COPY of your file, and open the copy.

With a suitable text editor, edit a version of the *RS.txt file. I
would take out transactions that date to the time the problem
stared. Those will be the oldest. Dates are in the form
yyyymmdd.....

Save the modified file as perhaps test.ofx. Then in Money with your
COPY, do File-> Import the test.ofx file. See if the error goes away.
If so, look to one of the transactions you removed.

If you don't get a reasonable looking OFX file you can try this from
a command prompt:
type "bank of america 2312313 RS.txt" > temp.ofx

Then edit temp.ofx with Notepad or your favorite editor.

When attempting to download my statement in Money 2004, I
get the error message "The file you attempted to import
appears to be invalid or contains corrupt data. Contact
your bank." I contacted my bank (B of A). They said the
problem was with Microsoft Money. The download was working
fine until about 3 weeks ago. How do I fix the problem?