Converting to Money 2004 from Quicken2002

I am trying to decide whether to stick with Quicken or move to Money.
TaxCut and MS are offering a good rebate but I cannot convert my data
with the trial edition of Money. It provides the very useful
message,"Your Quicken file could not be converted." I sometimes wonder
if they pay people to think these up.

Checking this group suggests that this is not an isolated incident.

If I cannot convert, I cannot switch. There is too much to enter.

Is there a log file somewhere that might tell me more?

Thanks

via_newsgroup
Mon Jan 05 19:28:54 CST 2004

In microsoft.public.money, Otis Bricker wrote:

>I am trying to decide whether to stick with Quicken or move to Money.
>TaxCut and MS are offering a good rebate but I cannot convert my data
>with the trial edition of Money. It provides the very useful
>message,"Your Quicken file could not be converted." I sometimes wonder
>if they pay people to think these up.

That is a pretty clear error message. Wait until you see what people
get when they try to open a Money 2004 file from Money 2003.

>
>Checking this group suggests that this is not an isolated incident.

Did you try validate, super validate, and clean boot?

>
>If I cannot convert, I cannot switch. There is too much to enter.
>
>Is there a log file somewhere that might tell me more?

Otis
Tue Jan 06 08:26:51 CST 2004

via_newsgroup@please.tnx(Cal Learner-- MVP) wrote in
news:9n3kvvslbmgcf80hi7qjtj4hejtde29hsn@4ax.com:

> In microsoft.public.money, Otis Bricker wrote:
>
>>I am trying to decide whether to stick with Quicken or move to Money.
>>TaxCut and MS are offering a good rebate but I cannot convert my data
>>with the trial edition of Money. It provides the very useful
>>message,"Your Quicken file could not be converted." I sometimes wonder
>>if they pay people to think these up.
>
> That is a pretty clear error message. Wait until you see what people
> get when they try to open a Money 2004 file from Money 2003.
>
>>
>>Checking this group suggests that this is not an isolated incident.
>
> Did you try validate, super validate, and clean boot?
>

Yes, except for clean boot. If it cannot convert on a W2K machine with 2G
of mem with nothing else running, I wouldn't trust it to run normally
either. (actually, I just don't know how I would 'clean boot' W2K)

I also tried 'unhiding' all my unused accounts as suggested in another
post. Sorry, I should have said that originally. SO I am still out of luck.

Thanks for the suggestions. I guess I stick with Quicken.

Otis

sgrand
Wed Jan 07 00:15:56 CST 2004


>-----Original Message-----
>I am trying to decide whether to stick with Quicken or
move to Money.
>TaxCut and MS are offering a good rebate but I cannot
convert my data
>with the trial edition of Money. It provides the very
useful
>message,"Your Quicken file could not be converted." I
sometimes wonder
>if they pay people to think these up.
>
>Checking this group suggests that this is not an isolated
incident.
>
>If I cannot convert, I cannot switch. There is too much
to enter.
>
>Is there a log file somewhere that might tell me more?
>
>Thanks
>.
>

I've had similar problem - very frustrating.