I agree with your concern. The QIF file however has duplicate entries as
programs that use it, do not know if an entry is a duplicate entry or not.
The OFX file is smarted and will do the skipping of transactions that have
already been entered, so you are correct that the editing will possibly
change something in the OFX file to make the file acceptable, however it
would not be to remove duplicate entries.

I do not know what the incompatibility is but hope that they will not
upgrade anymore of the BoA sites until they fix it.
"attempted" <attempted[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:099a01c37f35$407eec80$a401280a[at]phx.gbl...
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Until recently, while using bankofamerica.com (California)
and Money 2004, I could download transactions and open
them into Money using the active statement format
(stmt.ofx).

But something happened and now I receive "The file you
attempted to import appears to be invalid or contains
corrupt data" error dialog and advised to contact the
financial institution.

Just coincidently Bank of America recently made some
changes to their website. About the some time I began
getting the errors. But when I contact BofA, they infer
that the problem is with Microsoft: to wit, their reply to
my email concerning the problem:

<quotePlease be advised that Microsoft has given us a date of
November 15th to have the issue of downloading your
account information using Active Statement resolved. In
the meantime, please download your account information
using the 4-digit QIF file and import the file into
Microsoft Money.

Please be aware that downloading your current statement
using this method will duplicate transactions. To prevent
transactions from being duplicated, please download a date
range. We apologize for any inconvenience you have
experienced due to this matter.
<unquote
TWO months to resolve this problem? Huh, who jerking who
on this? MS vs BA?

Instead of the "4-digit QIF File" work-around, How about a
work-around to modify (edit) the ofX file, which would
eliminate the problem with the duplicate entries?