CAl....Problem solved. with your help. thanks rich

In microsoft.public.money, rich wrote:

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Something is wrong there, but you know that.



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What I would do is that the next time you restore, you select to
*not* restore to the "default location". Instead Browse to your
Documents folder and name the file something like "rich08" without
the quotes. Money will add the .mny automatically.

While in the file, I suggest you change the backup file path.
Change your backup path from
"C:\Documents and Settings\rich\My Documents\" to
"C:\Users\rich\Documents\".
I would also change the name part to rich08 from "my money backup",
or whatever it is. That way there will be no confusion about what
produced the new backups.


Then exit. Launch by double-clicking rich08.mny. See if things
behave for you. I am not sure that the symptoms of having your
existing "my money.mny" marked as read-only would explain your
symptoms. But I am thinking that the above suggestion would handle
that case, plus cases I can't even imagine.

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OK I'm obviously not a computer guy here...but..here is what I have read.
Yes, I am using Vista. The actual Money file is at
C:\users\rich\desktop\my money etc

When I double click on that file, my Money file comes up and works
fine...BUT...it shows the last update to be 5/1/08. Once I see that, I then
"restore" from a backup that I manually made the day before. At that
point..... the program shows all of my entries up until yesterday. So far,
so good.

When I am finished adding or updating..and I try to backup..I can do it with
the manual BACKUP command on the left hand side..by choosing my own name for
it...which I call Money backup 10-09-08 ( that is what I must restore the
next time I open the program.)

However, when I then try to close the program down, it wants to
automatically backup my files (which is a good thing)..but..that is when I
get the "invalid file path" error message. Even if I use a prior backup
name that is in the very same folder.(copy and paste it ) ....and simply
change the date..it won't do it automatically. It says "invalid path" all
over again. What am I missing here??? please???

If I then reopen the original money file..it only has the updates from
5-01-08...and I have to go back and restore my manual backup to get things
working properly again.

Any help appreciated. Rich

In microsoft.public.money, rich wrote:

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That last sentence seems to contradict the way I was interpreting
the rest your post. That sentence seems to imply that your backup is
working, but that your main file is the one with the problem.

If you are using Vista, it is important that your *.mny file, as
well as your *.mbf files, are not within the "C:Program Files"
folder. Instead put them in a place such as your Documents folder.

Well, if you can browse to the path, but that path doesn't work, something
else must be going on.

Have you checked the path setup for the periodic backup? You don't mention
version of Money, but since M05 or so this has been at Tools|Settings|Backup
settings|Perform scheduled backups. IIRC, if this is set to a floppy drive
that doesn't exist (as is more and more often the case and is likely to be
the case if you are changing machines from a "legacy" machine to one of the
new fangled ones) it will whine on every backup, not just the Scheduled
ones.

"rich" <rich99sue[at]sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Yes, I have used the browse button. That always seems to work on other
files. I wonder if it is some kind of "glitch" per Dick Watson's message.

Any additional suggestions will be tried. thanks Rich

Have you tried using the browse button to navigate to the folder you
want?

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:00:54 -0500, "rich" <rich99sue[at]sbcglobal.netwrote:

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Hi Rich, I have the same problem but I think its just a glitch. I usually do
the backup and when it is done it pops up a second time. What I do is just
x-out of the second prompt and everything still seems to be backed-up from
the first attempt. Not sure if that will work for you or not but mine seems
fine when I re-open it later. Good luck
Robert

"rich" wrote:

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C:\users\xxrch\documents\MyMoneyBakup.mbf ?

Even this makes assumptions about things like C:.

Why don't you go Start|[your name]|Documents, r-click Open and from that
window, copy the path off the address text box?

"rich" <rich99sue[at]sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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I've got everything working fine on my new money. The old one worked fine
for a couple of years.

BUT..Now...I have to manually backup every time. Whenever I let the
program automatically backup... I get the message --invalid path-- or "not
a valid path---.

I've tried changing the path name that comes up, but nothing that I use
seems to work. Could someone PLEASE type out a "normal" path name for a
vista machine. i.e

C:/documents/xxrch/msmoney 10-9-08.mbf

or whatever is the actual correct path arrangement?

I think if I did it right just one time...then it would continue sending the
newer backups there.

The way it is now, I have to restore my recent manual backup EVERY time I
open money, or the data ends months ago. .

Thanks Very Much Rich