But why should we have to apply this workaround? This is ridiculous. And
where will the problem strike next? It's the sort of problem that can go
un-noticed for a long period of time and cause all sorts of problems to the
user. What confidence can we have in a financial reporting/management system
that changes the quantities of our investments at random? What will it
corrupt next?

This problem was first reported two months ago and it remains unfixed. I
don't care one tiny bit whether there is a new data provider, nor should I
have to care about these things. It is extrordinary that Microsoft
Money/MSN corrupts our files this way and Microsoft does absolutely nothing
about it. Not a comment in these news groups. No fixes. Nothing.



"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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Thanks, your solution worked just great!

Info regarding the bad splits:
Stock Date
AMP 21-May-2007
HGI 15-Oct-2007
QAN 13-Feb-2007

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, GeorgeR wrote:

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That is probably due to some bogus splits in the price quote
download data.

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That would stand for Split.

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There are some shares with bogus splits in the data stream from the
new quote provider.

To work around this, look at the split history for a stock. Go to
the investment PriceHistory. UpdatePrices-> UpdatePricesManually,
Look through the table and find the entries in the Source column
that say "Stock Split". The first split, going back in time, will
be identifiable by the quotes being suffixed with an 'S' for the
price. The first may not be the bad one.

Note the date of the bad split. It is not necessary to delete it
at this point. Click Close. Then UpdatePrices-> RecordASplit.

Record a split for the date you noted as a 1 for 1 split. Accept
that you are overwriting the existing split. That should inoculate
you to a re-download of the bad split for that date-- at least for
some versions. Let us know how that works out for you. It would
be nice if post the symbol for the stock and the date of the bad
split data.

I am not sure the 1:1 split workaround will work on Money 2004. Let
us know if it does not.

I have just noticed that the quantities and prices for all transactions in
some of my investments have been changed, the total is still correct. All
quantities are now fractions (always less than what they were) and prices are
correspondingly higher and also the price ends with the letter s.

What has caused this? How do I prevent it happening again? What is the
meaning of the letter s?

I now have to go back and edit all my investment entries because the total
quantity is now less than it should be.