many thanks, at least I know what the problem is. I have to
say don't recall any dialogue boxes when I loaded the
backup can only presume not paying full attention when I
did it. Notwithstanding - the password thing is very lame
- perhaps MS ran out of time.


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If you opened your old M2K data file with M03 and went ahead and upgraded
it, the dialog boxes told you about these issues in excruciating detail. If
you'd read them, you'd know that a Money file, once upgraded to M03, can't
be opened again by M2K. The password thing is Money's lame way of telling
you that an M03 file cannot be recognized by M2K. See
http://www.bollar.org/msmoney/#Q84. Your choice now is to go back to M03
with everything else from Works2K (this is what I'd recommend) or go find
the leftover M2K upgrade backup and put in all of the transactions since you
upgraded to M03.

But if you think migrating to Quicken is easier than reading dialog boxes,
by all means here's the link for you:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...7&loc=105&sp=1

"KEVIN BARNES" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:00bd01c3bce8$20cebc80$a101280a[at]phx.gbl...
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Just bought new machine with Money 2003 loaded. Restored
backup files from MS 2000. Recently loaded my old MS Works
2000 because it had other programs on it. Since then a
problem - so removed MS Money 2003 and 2000 and re loaded
MS Money 2000. Tried to restore backup data - last saved
with MS money 2003 but it now refuses to recognise password
- which has remained the same for many years. Anyone have
any ideas or is it time to use Quicken ?, because I am
getting somewhat frustrated with the whole thing.