Sounds like voodoo to me, but never discount the power of voodoo. Glad
you've got a solution.

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

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Congratulations... strange solution!

Much thanks to both Dick and Cal for your responses and
suggestions. Here's the outcome:

While scratching my head, I noticed some strange behavior
by Windows Explorer (!). Tracking that clue, I noticed
that the Money problem began around the time that I had
installed a recent Microsoft security patch for Internet
Explorer 6. On the suggestion of a troubleshooter at
work, I uninstalled that IE6 patch, rebooted, and found
that the MS Money problem went away. Being a brave soul,
I then reinstalled the IE6 patch and everything (still)
seems to be working fine: IE6, Windows Explorer, and MS
Money.

As always with Microsoft sofware, go figure!

In microsoft.public.money, Larry wrote:

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Don't overwrite your past backups.

You could turn off compression for backups; that would be a
temporary action. In the mean time, I would also copy your .mny file
to other filenames on zip and hard drives.

Then I would reinstall Money. That is not nearly as drastic as it
sounds.

And how long have you let it be "not responding" for? Not responding does
not necessarily mean the application won't complete what it's doing sooner
or later.

"Larry" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, waiting does
nothing (it's not responding) and I get he same problem
when backing up to the hard drive, so the zip is not part
of the equation. And this is one of those problems that
worked fine right up until it didn't. I can't think of
anything I've changed or installed on the machine since
the last time it backed up correctly. I'll let you know
what I find.

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In microsoft.public.money, Larry wrote:

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You could try waiting longer. I don't know how long you waited.

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I would set Money to back up to the hard drive. I would then copy
the backup file from the hard drive to the zip drive. Does that
work?

I would look into reinstalling the zip drive-- especially if you
cannot write to it separately.

Until last week, Money 2003 behaved as configured: it
compressed my backup file before writing it to my backup
floppy drive (which is actually a zip disk).

For no known reason, it has started to hang up (that is,
Windows XP Task Manager reports that it is not
responding) right after it displays the progress bar for
compressing the backup file. No progress occurs, and it
never hits the zip drive.

Any suggestions will be welcome. I didn't find anything
relevant when searching the newsgroup's archives.