1) Do NOT EVER have two machines accessing the same Money file
simultaneously, even with things like Money Express.

2) M02 is not the fastest thing in the world under the best circumstances.
Networking the data file is far from the best circumstances. See
http://www.bollar.org/msmoney/#Q104.

3) Archiving has provided a performance boost for very few people. For each
post where somebody said this was a good thing from a performance point of
view, there are probably 10 from people complaining that it didn't work like
they though tit did, had painful side effects, and didn't improve
performance besides. I do not recommend archiving.

Money is a Jet/MSISAM database--it is brutal over the network because of a
huge number of very small file accesses at random locations. This is the
worst case for the overhead and latency of the network protocols--which are
much greater than for just a local disk access--to be many times the
size/time of the underlying file access.

"John Payne" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Anyone know of a way to improve Money 2002 performance
when accessing / sharing a money file ? We have 2 PC's
and have decided to share one file. Accessed via home
network (MSMONEY running on each machine; Money data file
opened on each PC stored on one PC.

I already archived old data out. Any other ways to reduce
size of file or other tricks ?

Thanks !