Doomed to duplicates?

Money is getting to be beyond useless.

I opened two new citibank accounts and all I wanted to do was add them,
and the internet login information, to money 2006.

First of all, it appears to be IMPOSSIBLE to do this without using
MSN's service, which I don't really want to do. I might be able to live
with that, however, in doing its little synchronization, money
duplicates hundreds of transactions across half a dozen accounts,
rendering my file completely useless.

I have restored from a backup and tried to get around this problem at
least a dozen times, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas how I might
avoid this?

I considered just jumping ship to Quicken but their traslation tool
doesn't appear to migrate money files to the newest version of quicken.

Cal
Fri Sep 01 16:51:39 CDT 2006

In microsoft.public.money, shmnky wrote:

>I opened two new citibank accounts and all I wanted to do was add them,
>and the internet login information, to money 2006.
>
>First of all, it appears to be IMPOSSIBLE to do this without using
>MSN's service, which I don't really want to do. I might be able to live
>with that, however, in doing its little synchronization, money
>duplicates hundreds of transactions across half a dozen accounts,
>rendering my file completely useless.
>
>I have restored from a backup and tried to get around this problem at
>least a dozen times, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas how I might
>avoid this?

Sure. Either download the OFX file from the Citibank website into
Money, or choose a different bank which provides direct OFX
downloads.

Cal
Fri Sep 01 17:21:34 CDT 2006

In microsoft.public.money, Cal Learner-- MVP wrote:

>In microsoft.public.money, shmnky wrote:
>
>>I opened two new citibank accounts and all I wanted to do was add them,
>>and the internet login information, to money 2006.
>>
>>First of all, it appears to be IMPOSSIBLE to do this without using
>>MSN's service, which I don't really want to do. I might be able to live
>>with that, however, in doing its little synchronization, money
>>duplicates hundreds of transactions across half a dozen accounts,
>>rendering my file completely useless.
>>
>>I have restored from a backup and tried to get around this problem at
>>least a dozen times, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas how I might
>>avoid this?
>
>Sure. Either download the OFX file from the Citibank website into
>Money, or choose a different bank which provides direct OFX
>downloads.

... assuming "this" is to avoid using MSN's service to access your
bank.


If this "this" is avoiding duplicates and keeping your other
accounts off of MSN while still downloading from Citibank via MSN, I
think Money 2007 is supposed to be better at that. You could try the
trial.

Michael
Sat Sep 02 07:42:57 CDT 2006

Do it directly with Citibank and decline the MSN service.

--
Michael Gordon
MVP


"shmnky" <shmnky@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Money is getting to be beyond useless.
>
> I opened two new citibank accounts and all I wanted to do was add them,
> and the internet login information, to money 2006.
>
> First of all, it appears to be IMPOSSIBLE to do this without using
> MSN's service, which I don't really want to do. I might be able to live
> with that, however, in doing its little synchronization, money
> duplicates hundreds of transactions across half a dozen accounts,
> rendering my file completely useless.
>
> I have restored from a backup and tried to get around this problem at
> least a dozen times, to no avail. Anyone have any ideas how I might
> avoid this?
>
> I considered just jumping ship to Quicken but their traslation tool
> doesn't appear to migrate money files to the newest version of quicken.
>