Re: Backup Restore Password Not Accepted by DrReid
DrReid
Mon Oct 10 07:37:15 CDT 2005
[sigh] Yes, you are correct. It was late when I posted, and I didn't realize
I had installed M04 instead of M05. Installing the latter solved my problem,
and I could restore with no problem.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. <sheepish grin> I read many posts
about this issue and thought mistakenly they didn't pertain to me.
DrReid
"Dick Watson" wrote:
> Are you sure you never took Microsoft up on one of their offers to download
> M05/6? This is a surprisingly frequent source of this issue. (Of course, M05
> and M06 look different enough that you might notice.)
>
> One way to find out is to download/install the M06 trial, let it upgrade a
> COPY of your old file and see what it renames the restored file to. If it's
> ..M12, then who knows. If .M14 or .M15 then there's you answer.
>
> "DrReid" <DrReid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:268790D7-A3AA-47D4-8800-08F21ACE898B@microsoft.com...
> >I reformatted my hard disk drive, saving only my backup file for Money 2004
> > (Version 12.0, Update 1), which I installed with no problem. I use
> > passport
> > to login. However, after doing so, when I tried to restore from my
> > earlier
> > backup file, I was prompted for a password: nothing worked! I didn't
> > realize
> > my backup file was password protected. I tried identified directories
> > other
> > than the default to create the .mny file, but that didn't work either.
> > Next, I disabled the Passport feature, logging in using my previous
> > password, then tried restoring the backup again. It didn't work: just
> > kept
> > prompting me for a password to restore the backup.
> > What is happening and how can I access my backup?
> >
> > Please help. Obviously, I have lots of financial info to recover.
> >
> > DrReid
> >
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