Help Needed !!!

I was using the trial version of Money 2005 in the past few weeks. Today I
purchased and installed Money 2005 Standard version. After installation, I
could not open the previous money file. When I tried to open the file, it
prompted that it would convert the file to the new version. However, the
conversion failed with message 'can not open the file ... due to either no
permission or file is being opened ...' I am using Windows ME on my personal
computer. No other application is using the file. The file is not read only
either. Anybody would share his / her experience if the same thing happened
to you before?

Thanks a lot!

via_newsgroup
Wed Feb 23 01:41:15 CST 2005

In microsoft.public.money, Joseph wrote:

>I was using the trial version of Money 2005 in the past few weeks. Today I
>purchased and installed Money 2005 Standard version. After installation, I
>could not open the previous money file. When I tried to open the file, it
>prompted that it would convert the file to the new version. However, the
>conversion failed with message 'can not open the file ... due to either no
>permission or file is being opened ...' I am using Windows ME on my personal
>computer. No other application is using the file. The file is not read only
>either. Anybody would share his / her experience if the same thing happened
>to you before?

Let Money 2005 create a new Money file without a Passport, clicking
Decline in the process. It will do an update so that Help->About...
says you then have version 14.0.*.1105.

Then you should be able to open or restore your existing files.