In microsoft.public.money, Greycats2 wrote:

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Not that I know of. My suspicion would be that ... ok... let's not
say that right now.

If you do a Start-> Search for "*.mn7, *.mn8, *.mn9, *.m10, *.m11"
without the quotes, what do you find? From the search results,
View-> Detailed will let you see the dates. Clicking the Date header
will sort by date? Which one is newest?

Cal,
I got my computer in 99 so I do not have a CD burner.
When I used Money in the past, I automatically backed up
to hard drive and to floppy once a day, with the prompt me
first.I thought that I was safe by having 3 backup files
on floppy, but I wasn't. The first thing that I did when
2004 restored my files was to print out a years worth of
info from my account so that I would have it on paper to
refer to in case something else went wrong in the future.
My husband is going to get Money 2004 for his computer
that has XP. That way if one computer crashes like this
one did, we will have the other one to use. I will print
out you suggestions for use with his system.
Why is it that 2004 would restore from my floppy and no
other version of Money would with out the corrupt,
password or invalid file path errors? What does 2004 have
that made this possible over other versions?

Thanks again
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In microsoft.public.money, Greycats2 wrote:

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I am glad you are back in business.

This would be a good time to review your backup strategy.


In Tools-> Options-> Backup I suggest checking
x Automatically backup to hard disk on exit
x Prompt me before backing up each time*
x Make my file small ...

Then periodically, perhaps once per month or more, copy your
latest backup (named differently from your earlier backups) to a
CDR. With XP, this can be a copy and paste operation. Otherwise
use the burning software that came with your CDR drive.

I suggest use of a USB Flash drive also. They typically act like a
big floppy.

* This has two advantages. You can change the file name
occasionally. I like to pick a name something like money030828.
Then it is easy to change the name to have multiple backups. The
..mbf extension is automatic. The other advantage is that you can
choose "Don't Back Up, or you change your mind about exiting by
simply clicking the X in the upper right of the pop-up box.

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backup file from floppy loaded instantly without a hitch.
Thank you very much for helping me.

In microsoft.public.money, <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.comwrote:

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It makes it easier to refer back to what has gone before.

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that was what I was supposed to do. I sure will post to
the same thread from now on.

In microsoft.public.money, Greycats2 wrote:

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On the one that complains about the folder, Browse to your My
Documents folder rather than taking the default destination.


I don't know when the ability to have an earlier version of Money
started, but I don't think you can have 99 and 2000 together. And if
Money 2000 says there is a password when there is not, I am pretty
sure Money 99 will not read the file either.

I would try Money 2004 if I were you. Install the trial to a
different folder. That can coexist with Money 2000.

In microsoft.public.money, Greycats2 wrote:

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Try to keep your story to the same thread.

Dal I hope that you get this message you have given me
advice before. I had tired to restore an account from
Floppy to money 2000. I was told that i needed a passpord,
whick a password cracker confirmed taht I did not ever
have a password before, and on another floppy an Invalid
file path error message.I tried to restore the backup file
to my documents and that ididn't work. I have tried to
open the floppy on Money 2002 to no avail. I was just sure
that i had created this account in Money 2000, but my
husband says that maybe we did create the account in the
Money 99 from Works Suite 99. If that is the case, the
file transfered the first time, but I know that i did
download update for Money and Works suite 99 before I
transfered the Money files to 2000. Is it possible to
install the money 99 on my computer and not have a
conflict with 2000 to see if 99 will open the saved file?
any other thoughts that you have will be appreciated as
always. as you can see I haven't given up on problem
yet.......