"Corrupt" and the symptoms Clark described are not one in the same.

"13hockey" <michael.kelly[at]on.aibn.com> wrote in message
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"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in message news:<uIUEyFuSEHA.3812[at]TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl> ...
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No problem, but when I search corrupt, I only get 2170 hits. It is a
serious problem and Microsoft doesn't support Money enough.

I have no problems with Budget because I do not use Budget.
I have read of others with this problem especially Mny automatically
making decisions for users without their knowledge. The MS arrogance
thing.

Perhaps Quicken will do what Clark expects from this type of
application. I hope he will report back here if he decides to give
that a test run. They offer a 60-day money back deal.

I am retired from the DP/IP business so have some understanding of the
processes. An example: Marketing says that sales will increase 25%
if a certain feature is added. The programmers know that the new
feature was not anticipated and not built into the design. There is
no budget for a rewrite of the software. The programmers can add the
new feature using methods similar to virus writers, ie force it to
fit. Over the years of adding new features the software becomes more
and more convoluted and management gasps at how much they are spending
on maintenance. The cost of every line of code ( programming ) is
known and measured against some profit goals. There is no room in the
budget to right the wrongs created over the years. This is not unique
to MS but rather to the software engineering process.

Perfection is non-existent which means that creation is imperfection.

arthur
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On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 03:43:00 -0600, "Dick Watson" wrote:
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It's probably little consolation, but since **very few** users report
problems like yours, have you considered the possibility that it's your
installation/system that has problems, not the Money software?

"Clark" <cur[at]sw.net> wrote in message
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I have tried all I can. Reinstalled 3 times and did everything I could to
make sure I did not corrupt the Database so I could get some reliable
numbers, but I just can't. No matter what, some numbers are changed, on
what seems to be to me a random way, so as to make this program unusable.
Most of my problems seem to run in with the budgeting and reports area, but
when the budget for my mortgage is doubled (I did not reallocate) all the
other data is suspect.

Microsoft, you folks have some very large problems with this software.

Clark