There is a file size limit. But it's so large that it's really only
theoretical not a practical limit any Money file will reach in anyone's
lifetime.

Size does seem to have some minor impact on performance. But other
things--Money's complete lack of ability to keep its own Bill data sane
comes to mind--seem to have far bigger impacts on performance.

Yes, I'm saying that I would do nothing different based solely on having a
20MB or 200MB Money file.

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

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I am. My current file is 116,129,792 bytes.

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Yes, and yes. Import them all at once (using Ctrl+<click> to select
the files) as recovered accounts. That allows transfers to be
recognized.

You can edit the files to eliminate potential duplicates.

On the other hand, you could try re-downloading to a copy of the old
file if the time away from the old file is not too long. If you
don't like that result, you can still go with the QIF thing.

I created a new one because I thought there was a file size limit (especially
in regards to speed within money), but you're saying that's not true?

Additionally, I have about 20 GB left on my 75 GB hard drive, so space isn't
an issue. And I backup to my 100GB HD regularly.

I do not download any stock quotes, just banking transactions, but I do have
about 10 different accounts between 3 different instutions - 3 of them brand
new. Would you recommend that I just add my new bank accounts to my original
Money file? If so, can I just use the loose qif import/export function to
transfer the new one in?

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Dick Watson wrote:

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I would add that much of that size often from stock quotes. Turn off
fetching of quotes if you get obsessive. However USB flash drives
for backups are cheap and handy. Big hard drives are cheap.

There is no easy or effective way to do what you ask. Many of us would also
argue that there was no reason or benefit to creating a brand new Money
file. Mine is 67.6MB and has transactions continuous back to spring of 1993.

"Adriennelisa" <Adriennelisa[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I created a brand new mny file (my old one was almost 20 MB) but now, I don't
want to have to re-enter all my Payees and my Recurring Transactions setup.
Is there any way to do this? I am using Money 2008.