problems with restoring back up

#2 01-21-2008, 03:35 PM

Where on the laptop did you copy the MNY file to?
Try putting it in your "My Documents" folder on your laptop and then double
click it from there to start Money and let Money convert it.

-Mark

"M5" <M5[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:26A3DD34-75C7-419C-AE06-B2B5B85C456D[at]microsoft.com...
- quote -

> Yes, I tried just opening the mny file. It did the same, it opened some
> other
> windows telling me it was converting the file and then nothing... And I
> don't
> have any MBF files, i backed up my info on the desktop and it backs it
> into a
> mny file...
> "Dick Watson" wrote:
> > Sure you copied the correct backup file? These are not .MNY file but are
> > ..MBF files.
> > > Why not just copy of the original .MNY file and try opening it? (No
> > restore
> > involved here at all.)
> > > "M5" <M5[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:A1A446B3-24D5-4810-90B0-0EF7685E68D8[at]microsoft.com...
> > > I had Money 2003 home & business on my desktop (XP). I now have a new
> > > laptop
> > > (vista). I have downloaded the trial of the 2008 Home & business money
> > > version. I copied the backup file (.mny) through network connection
> > > from
> > > the
> > > deskto to the laptop. Everythime I open the new Money and go to restore
> > > backup it asks me for my old password, it comes up with some windows,
> > > saying
> > > that it is converting files and then it opens the home Money screen,
> > > but
> > > none
> > > of my old info is there, no accounts, no bills. I have run the new
> > > Moeny
> > > as
> > > an administrator and then restarted and I have opened the sample file
> > > and
> > > restarted and nothing helps.
> > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > > Thanks in advance
> >

#1 01-20-2008, 02:54 AM

Yes, I tried just opening the mny file. It did the same, it opened some other
windows telling me it was converting the file and then nothing... And I don't
have any MBF files, i backed up my info on the desktop and it backs it into a
mny file...

"Dick Watson" wrote:

- quote -

> Sure you copied the correct backup file? These are not .MNY file but are
> ..MBF files.
> Why not just copy of the original .MNY file and try opening it? (No restore
> involved here at all.)
> "M5" <M5[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A1A446B3-24D5-4810-90B0-0EF7685E68D8[at]microsoft.com...
> > I had Money 2003 home & business on my desktop (XP). I now have a new
> > laptop
> > (vista). I have downloaded the trial of the 2008 Home & business money
> > version. I copied the backup file (.mny) through network connection from
> > the
> > deskto to the laptop. Everythime I open the new Money and go to restore
> > backup it asks me for my old password, it comes up with some windows,
> > saying
> > that it is converting files and then it opens the home Money screen, but
> > none
> > of my old info is there, no accounts, no bills. I have run the new Moeny
> > as
> > an administrator and then restarted and I have opened the sample file and
> > restarted and nothing helps.
> > > Any ideas?
> > > Thanks in advance

01-19-2008, 09:21 PM

Sure you copied the correct backup file? These are not .MNY file but are
..MBF files.

Why not just copy of the original .MNY file and try opening it? (No restore
involved here at all.)

"M5" <M5[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A1A446B3-24D5-4810-90B0-0EF7685E68D8[at]microsoft.com...
- quote -

> I had Money 2003 home & business on my desktop (XP). I now have a new
> laptop
> (vista). I have downloaded the trial of the 2008 Home & business money
> version. I copied the backup file (.mny) through network connection from
> the
> deskto to the laptop. Everythime I open the new Money and go to restore
> backup it asks me for my old password, it comes up with some windows,
> saying
> that it is converting files and then it opens the home Money screen, but
> none
> of my old info is there, no accounts, no bills. I have run the new Moeny
> as
> an administrator and then restarted and I have opened the sample file and
> restarted and nothing helps.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks in advance

#-1 01-19-2008, 08:08 PM

I had Money 2003 home & business on my desktop (XP). I now have a new laptop
(vista). I have downloaded the trial of the 2008 Home & business money
version. I copied the backup file (.mny) through network connection from the
deskto to the laptop. Everythime I open the new Money and go to restore
backup it asks me for my old password, it comes up with some windows, saying
that it is converting files and then it opens the home Money screen, but none
of my old info is there, no accounts, no bills. I have run the new Moeny as
an administrator and then restarted and I have opened the sample file and
restarted and nothing helps.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

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