Moving Money data files

#3 11-20-2003, 04:29 PM

Glad you got this solved. Thanks for the feedback. Over 87 happy posters
helped!

<anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your patience! I finally got the data for M04
> to reside in the "M04" machine. Your suggestions and
> directions helped lead me to (I think) moving the .mbf
> file to the desktop where upon asking M04 to restore a
> backup from the desktop, restored the data in the new
> program. Anyway, it works now..thanks to your help!

#2 11-20-2003, 03:18 AM

So, what you are saying is:

1) You moved a copy of a known good, known with data, M2K file to the M04
machine.
2) You opened this file, M04 recognized it as a back level file, made the
upgrade version and left behind the .MN9 copy of the original file.
3) The resultant upgraded file shows "no data" which, from your description,
I infer to mean accounts but no transactions. Does it show account details?
Any added categories?

Try this: take the .MN9 file back to the M2K machine. Rename it something
like testfile.MNY. Double-click on it. Money2k should open it and it should
look EXACTLY like your file looked on the M2K side when you started.

<anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry for the confusion. I'll try again. The new file that
> I want, SAR.MNY file is present within M2K. I tried your
> suggestion...but the file has no data. There should be
> 2+years worth of checks,deposits,ect but it just shows $0
> in the account...like I was setting it up for the first
> time when all I wanted to do was move what was on this
> desktop computer which was everything, to my laptop. I
> also tried backing up to a floppy disk of the money
> program on the desktop and used the restore the data to
> the new 2004 program. I did File/Restore/Restore from a
> backup file/a:SAR backup d1 and it goes through the
> motions but at the end the message says A;\sar backupd1.
> mbf is corrupted or is not a money backup file. So still
> without the important data I need inside the program.
> Thanks for your response.

#1 11-20-2003, 12:37 AM

Sorry for the confusion. I'll try again. The new file that
I want, SAR.MNY file is present within M2K. I tried your
suggestion...but the file has no data. There should be
2+years worth of checks,deposits,ect but it just shows $0
in the account...like I was setting it up for the first
time when all I wanted to do was move what was on this
desktop computer which was everything, to my laptop. I
also tried backing up to a floppy disk of the money
program on the desktop and used the restore the data to
the new 2004 program. I did File/Restore/Restore from a
backup file/a:SAR backup d1 and it goes through the
motions but at the end the message says A;\sar backupd1.
mbf is corrupted or is not a money backup file. So still
without the important data I need inside the program.
Thanks for your response.
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> -----Original Message-----
> What your wrote doesn't make sense. You say moving
the .MNY file worked fine
> but then you say it didn't work after all. Have you
upgraded that file to an
> M04 file? Copy the M2K file you wrote to the CD onto the
laptop's desktop.
> Double click on it. Follow the prompts for how to do the
upgrade. When this
> is done and you exit Money, drag the newly created
M04 .MNY file from your
> desktop to where you really want to keep it--somewhere in
My Documents is
> recommended--then double click on it again. You should be
set.
> "Jack" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
> news:023701c3aed2$483a95b0$a401280a[at]phx.gbl...
> > I have MS Money 2000 on a desktop and need to move the
> > data from that program to my laptop which has MS Money
> > 2004 Deluxe. I got the .mny file from the MS Money 2000
> > and burned it on CD to go in MS Money 2004 Deluxe. That
> > worked fine now having a new file created by the new
> > program. But I still don't have the data for checks,
> > deposits,etc in the new 2004 program. Tried my backup
> > floppys to restore the data from the old program to the
> > new one but not having any luck extracting the data I
> > need. Any help? Thanks in advance
> .

11-19-2003, 07:42 PM

What your wrote doesn't make sense. You say moving the .MNY file worked fine
but then you say it didn't work after all. Have you upgraded that file to an
M04 file? Copy the M2K file you wrote to the CD onto the laptop's desktop.
Double click on it. Follow the prompts for how to do the upgrade. When this
is done and you exit Money, drag the newly created M04 .MNY file from your
desktop to where you really want to keep it--somewhere in My Documents is
recommended--then double click on it again. You should be set.

"Jack" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have MS Money 2000 on a desktop and need to move the
> data from that program to my laptop which has MS Money
> 2004 Deluxe. I got the .mny file from the MS Money 2000
> and burned it on CD to go in MS Money 2004 Deluxe. That
> worked fine now having a new file created by the new
> program. But I still don't have the data for checks,
> deposits,etc in the new 2004 program. Tried my backup
> floppys to restore the data from the old program to the
> new one but not having any luck extracting the data I
> need. Any help? Thanks in advance

#-1 11-19-2003, 07:21 PM

I have MS Money 2000 on a desktop and need to move the
data from that program to my laptop which has MS Money
2004 Deluxe. I got the .mny file from the MS Money 2000
and burned it on CD to go in MS Money 2004 Deluxe. That
worked fine now having a new file created by the new
program. But I still don't have the data for checks,
deposits,etc in the new 2004 program. Tried my backup
floppys to restore the data from the old program to the
new one but not having any luck extracting the data I
need. Any help? Thanks in advance

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