Two versions of Money opening one Money file?

#3 06-20-2008, 12:39 PM

A to Q1) If there were a lot of customers, in the sense of tens of millions
of buyers willing to shell out money to buy a tool that solved these
problems, they'd solve it better. But I agree with your basic premise:
support for non-default currencies in Money is very rudimentary.

A to Q2) To the issues Bob cites, add in the number of different schemes for
downloading transaction data and the number of different providers of
financial market data. Then add in all of the language localization issues.
This is like the previous problem: these issues would get solved pronto if
there were a business case to be made for solving them.

"Richh" <spam[at]spam.com> wrote in message
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> Surely there must be a lot of customers in the same situation as me? Why
> can't MS just make ONE version of Money that works in all countries?

#2 06-20-2008, 11:07 AM

I submit that the program would be huge and unwieldy. AFAIK every Country
has different fiscal laws regarding Capital Gains. A single program would
have to be regularly updated as each country changed it's tax laws etc etc.
More likely to cost MS rather than save.

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"Richh" <spam[at]spam.com> wrote in message
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> "Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
> message news:eOjtyXH0IHA.2084[at]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > The short answer is that you couldn't even do this if both data files
> > were created by the same localization of Money.
> Yes, it seems having learnt the program a bit better now that MSMoney does
> not cope very well for persons with accounts in different countries.
> Surely there must be a lot of customers in the same situation as me? Why
> can't MS just make ONE version of Money that works in all countries? It
> would surely also save them a lot of money

#1 06-20-2008, 09:52 AM

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
message news:eOjtyXH0IHA.2084[at]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
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> The short answer is that you couldn't even do this if both data files were
> created by the same localization of Money.

Yes, it seems having learnt the program a bit better now that MSMoney does
not cope very well for persons with accounts in different countries. Surely
there must be a lot of customers in the same situation as me? Why can't MS
just make ONE version of Money that works in all countries? It would surely
also save them a lot of money

06-17-2008, 12:30 PM

The short answer is that you couldn't even do this if both data files were
created by the same localization of Money.

"Richh" <spam[at]spam.com> wrote in message
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> But if I set up all my accounts in the UK version (including account
> synchronisation), could I then open the file with the French software and
> set up synchronising accounts with my French accounts?

#-1 06-17-2008, 08:31 AM

Hello,

I have bank accounts in France and in UK - as there are different versions
of Money for French and UK accounts, this poses a dilemna as to which
version to use.

But if I set up all my accounts in the UK version (including account
synchronisation), could I then open the file with the French software and
set up synchronising accounts with my French accounts?

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