Find a copy of Money 2004 or higher for the same localization as your M04
file was created with.

"Kjs" <Kjs[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Kjs wrote in <0BD4FF64-8629-4DAB-AC81-E3537229824B[at]microsoft.com> :

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Sorry, but you'll have to have Money 2004 or newer to open a Money 2004
data file. The bad password error message is Money's clumsy way of
saying it doesn't recognize the file.

--
Steve Bell
New Life Home Improvement
Arlington, TX

I got a new computer with Vista. My old computer has XP and I used "My Money
2004". I installed "My Money 2001" on my new computer (Couldn't find my 04
disc) and my password is not working to open it. What can I do to open it?

"Dick Watson" wrote:

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I am seeing the same issue with Money 2004. However, this fix doesn't seem
to work. I have tried disabling my firewall first but no luck. I can open
the sample.mny. When opening my own mny files, it tries to update and then
crashes.



"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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I'd created a test.mny already, and it didn't work. I tried to open the
sample.mny and update again didn't work. However, my brain finally clicked on
and I checked Kaspersky. It seems I'd clicked "block" rather than "allow" to
one of the MS sites by mistake. I deleted the block and, bingo, instant
update.

Thanx for giving me something else to try that finally woke me up!

David

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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You need to update the M05 to the last M05 service patch. See
http://umpmfaq.info/faqdb.php?q=177. You should be able to do an Internet
Update from inside Money--open the Sample file or something to get it
started. It should get the update. But you may network/firewall issues or
something. We'll have to get a better diagnosis than "nothing seems to
happen".

"David Teich" <DavidTeich[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, David Teich wrote:

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Find the sample.mny file in your install folder. That may be
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money 2005". Copy sample.mny file to
your Documents folder in Vista. In Windows Explorer with Vista,
right-click that file and choose RunAsAdministrator. With XP, just
Run. It will do an update. Close Money. With Vista, reboot the
computer. Then open Money and check that Help-> About... says you
then have version 14.0.120.1105.

Make sure your .mny and .mbf files are in your Documents folder.
Then you should be able to File-> Open or Restore your existing
files.

My computer crashed last week while money wasn't running. I've reinstalled
M2005 and am trying to open my current.mny. First it tells me it wants to
upgrade it to 2005 and then it tells me it can't open the file.

I've run the update and nothing seems to happen. Current version is:
14.1.120.728.

Why can't it either open the mny file or the backup it creates everytime on
exit and how do i fix it?