Microsoft Money 2003 Password help please

I have never used Money 2003 for doing anything other than debugging my MSN
Portfolio when it refused to donwload transactions from Schwab over a year
ago when certain OFX transactions were causing Brokerage download to abort.
Support kept telling me to use Money, so I broke down and bought it (Money
2003) over a year ago. It did allow me to download brokerage data and see
the audit trail of OFX transactions, and by trial and error I determined
what was causing the problem. I couldn't get Schwab support to change what
it was sending nor could I get MSN Portfolio support to allow downloading to
continue when it encountered the "error" transaction as Money seemed to do.
My final resolution (work around) was to quit downloading data for the 3 of
my 28 portfolio accounts until after 3 or 4 months Schwab stopped sending
the data. At that point I uninstalled Money 2003 and reinstated downloading
the 3 accounts in MSN Portfolio. All was fine for over a year when the "New
Improved" (NOT) MSN Portfolio was released in July. After three or four
weeks of almost utter frustration I finally go a *.inv backup file to load
and look halfway decent. Now the .mny file is about 20MB instead of the
300KB size of the .inv file and MicroSoft insists on trying to send the data
to some server in never-never-land. I don't know if this has ever occurred
or not (nor do I care as long as the data is only the machine I use to
access it on). But it seems that if I want to get brokerage data downloaded
I must use Money to accomplish the task. So back to my archieved worthless
(to me) software bin I went and dragged out the Money 2003 disk and
installed it. Trying to open Money 2003 prompts me for a password for my
.mny file. Every password that I have ever used for a passport has been
tried as well as Schwab password, userid, old password I used on Money over
a year ago before I uninstalled it. Nothing seems to work and keeps telling
me I have entered an incorrect password. The My Portfolio.mny file I'm
using is the one created from the latest .inv backup file (7/21/2004) which
MSN Portfolio converted to the .mny file, and I don't believe I was ever
asked for any password when it created it. "Help With Lost Passwords" only
talks about .NET passwords and not .mny file passwords.

I don't care about setting up bank and credit card accounts or anything
other than getting my MSN Portfolio to reflect the download data from
Schwab.
Help what is Money 2003 looking for. Since the 1st thing it asks for is a
password and I can't get past that point.

Bud

wiredup
Sun Sep 19 08:07:59 CDT 2004

Have you tried looking at http://support.microsoft.com
knowledge base?

I think the file might be corrupt. You might be out-of-
luck from this point and have to start over.

Sorry bud--make sure you do a variety of backups with a
few "extra" using dates... so, that if you file craps out
today, you can go back 1, 2 or 3 weeks.

You should do this on all programs with important data as
anything running on a computer is subject to data
corruption.


>-----Original Message-----
>I have never used Money 2003 for doing anything other
than debugging my MSN
>Portfolio when it refused to donwload transactions from
Schwab over a year
>ago when certain OFX transactions were causing Brokerage
download to abort.
>Support kept telling me to use Money, so I broke down
and bought it (Money
>2003) over a year ago. It did allow me to download
brokerage data and see
>the audit trail of OFX transactions, and by trial and
error I determined
>what was causing the problem. I couldn't get Schwab
support to change what
>it was sending nor could I get MSN Portfolio support to
allow downloading to
>continue when it encountered the "error" transaction as
Money seemed to do.
>My final resolution (work around) was to quit
downloading data for the 3 of
>my 28 portfolio accounts until after 3 or 4 months
Schwab stopped sending
>the data. At that point I uninstalled Money 2003 and
reinstated downloading
>the 3 accounts in MSN Portfolio. All was fine for over
a year when the "New
>Improved" (NOT) MSN Portfolio was released in July.
After three or four
>weeks of almost utter frustration I finally go a *.inv
backup file to load
>and look halfway decent. Now the .mny file is about
20MB instead of the
>300KB size of the .inv file and MicroSoft insists on
trying to send the data
>to some server in never-never-land. I don't know if
this has ever occurred
>or not (nor do I care as long as the data is only the
machine I use to
>access it on). But it seems that if I want to get
brokerage data downloaded
>I must use Money to accomplish the task. So back to my
archieved worthless
>(to me) software bin I went and dragged out the Money
2003 disk and
>installed it. Trying to open Money 2003 prompts me for
a password for my
>..mny file. Every password that I have ever used for a
passport has been
>tried as well as Schwab password, userid, old password I
used on Money over
>a year ago before I uninstalled it. Nothing seems to
work and keeps telling
>me I have entered an incorrect password. The My
Portfolio.mny file I'm
>using is the one created from the latest .inv backup
file (7/21/2004) which
>MSN Portfolio converted to the .mny file, and I don't
believe I was ever
>asked for any password when it created it. "Help With
Lost Passwords" only
>talks about .NET passwords and not .mny file passwords.
>
>I don't care about setting up bank and credit card
accounts or anything
>other than getting my MSN Portfolio to reflect the
download data from
>Schwab.
>Help what is Money 2003 looking for. Since the 1st
thing it asks for is a
>password and I can't get past that point.
>
>Bud
>
>
>.
>

Scott
Sun Sep 19 16:14:16 CDT 2004

Hi Bud,

Which file are you trying to open with Money 2003?

The file generated by the new Investment "If it worked, break it!" Toolbox
is likely a Money 2005 file, which Money 2003 would not be able to open
under any circumstances. As the Deluxe Portfolio Manager is long-gone,
you're probably out-of-luck for working with your old *.inv files, which no
version of Money would be able to open. Even if you used to do this with
Money 2003, I'm pretty sure it was invoking the old Deluxe Portfolio Manager
to do this.

The Money 2005 Trial will hopefully be out shortly. It may be possible with
Money 2005 to open the *.mny file from Investment Toolbox.

If you're trying to open an old Money 2003 file from your OFX auditing days,
you could start off with "File > New", then skip the setup interview, just
to get Money 2003 open, then do an online update to download the latest
Money updates. If Money 2003 ever had a major update, you will then be
prompted to close and restart Money 2003. You will hopefully then be able
to open your old Money 2003 file from "File > Open" or double-clicking it in
Windows Explorer.

--
Scott Tyler
agent_scotty-at-hotmail-dot-com


"Bud Anderson" <hhanderson-at-hotmail-dot-com> wrote in message
news:ufbu%23hfnEHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I have never used Money 2003 for doing anything other than debugging my MSN
> Portfolio when it refused to donwload transactions from Schwab over a year
> ago when certain OFX transactions were causing Brokerage download to
> abort.
> Support kept telling me to use Money, so I broke down and bought it (Money
> 2003) over a year ago. It did allow me to download brokerage data and see
> the audit trail of OFX transactions, and by trial and error I determined
> what was causing the problem. I couldn't get Schwab support to change
> what
> it was sending nor could I get MSN Portfolio support to allow downloading
> to
> continue when it encountered the "error" transaction as Money seemed to
> do.
> My final resolution (work around) was to quit downloading data for the 3
> of
> my 28 portfolio accounts until after 3 or 4 months Schwab stopped sending
> the data. At that point I uninstalled Money 2003 and reinstated
> downloading
> the 3 accounts in MSN Portfolio. All was fine for over a year when the
> "New
> Improved" (NOT) MSN Portfolio was released in July. After three or four
> weeks of almost utter frustration I finally go a *.inv backup file to load
> and look halfway decent. Now the .mny file is about 20MB instead of the
> 300KB size of the .inv file and MicroSoft insists on trying to send the
> data
> to some server in never-never-land. I don't know if this has ever
> occurred
> or not (nor do I care as long as the data is only the machine I use to
> access it on). But it seems that if I want to get brokerage data
> downloaded
> I must use Money to accomplish the task. So back to my archieved
> worthless
> (to me) software bin I went and dragged out the Money 2003 disk and
> installed it. Trying to open Money 2003 prompts me for a password for my
> .mny file. Every password that I have ever used for a passport has been
> tried as well as Schwab password, userid, old password I used on Money
> over
> a year ago before I uninstalled it. Nothing seems to work and keeps
> telling
> me I have entered an incorrect password. The My Portfolio.mny file I'm
> using is the one created from the latest .inv backup file (7/21/2004)
> which
> MSN Portfolio converted to the .mny file, and I don't believe I was ever
> asked for any password when it created it. "Help With Lost Passwords"
> only
> talks about .NET passwords and not .mny file passwords.
>
> I don't care about setting up bank and credit card accounts or anything
> other than getting my MSN Portfolio to reflect the download data from
> Schwab.
> Help what is Money 2003 looking for. Since the 1st thing it asks for is a
> password and I can't get past that point.
>
> Bud
>
>

John
Tue Nov 30 20:49:01 CST 2004



"Bud Anderson" wrote:

> I have never used Money 2003 for doing anything other than debugging my MSN
> Portfolio when it refused to donwload transactions from Schwab over a year
> ago when certain OFX transactions were causing Brokerage download to abort.
> Support kept telling me to use Money, so I broke down and bought it (Money
> 2003) over a year ago. It did allow me to download brokerage data and see
> the audit trail of OFX transactions, and by trial and error I determined
> what was causing the problem. I couldn't get Schwab support to change what
> it was sending nor could I get MSN Portfolio support to allow downloading to
> continue when it encountered the "error" transaction as Money seemed to do.
> My final resolution (work around) was to quit downloading data for the 3 of
> my 28 portfolio accounts until after 3 or 4 months Schwab stopped sending
> the data. At that point I uninstalled Money 2003 and reinstated downloading
> the 3 accounts in MSN Portfolio. All was fine for over a year when the "New
> Improved" (NOT) MSN Portfolio was released in July. After three or four
> weeks of almost utter frustration I finally go a *.inv backup file to load
> and look halfway decent. Now the .mny file is about 20MB instead of the
> 300KB size of the .inv file and MicroSoft insists on trying to send the data
> to some server in never-never-land. I don't know if this has ever occurred
> or not (nor do I care as long as the data is only the machine I use to
> access it on). But it seems that if I want to get brokerage data downloaded
> I must use Money to accomplish the task. So back to my archieved worthless
> (to me) software bin I went and dragged out the Money 2003 disk and
> installed it. Trying to open Money 2003 prompts me for a password for my
> ..mny file. Every password that I have ever used for a passport has been
> tried as well as Schwab password, userid, old password I used on Money over
> a year ago before I uninstalled it. Nothing seems to work and keeps telling
> me I have entered an incorrect password. The My Portfolio.mny file I'm
> using is the one created from the latest .inv backup file (7/21/2004) which
> MSN Portfolio converted to the .mny file, and I don't believe I was ever
> asked for any password when it created it. "Help With Lost Passwords" only
> talks about .NET passwords and not .mny file passwords.
>
> I don't care about setting up bank and credit card accounts or anything
> other than getting my MSN Portfolio to reflect the download data from
> Schwab.
> Help what is Money 2003 looking for. Since the 1st thing it asks for is a
> password and I can't get past that point.
>
> Bud
>
>
>

JV
Tue Nov 30 20:55:04 CST 2004

Bud:

I have not had any problems with Money 2003 until I upgraded Windows XP Pro
to SP 2. Most of my programs run very well but I am having a problem with
Money 2203 when I try to sign in. It will not except my password that I have
used for the past 4 years. I did notice that Print Shop ver 20 has something
to do with Money. The Print Shop 20 will not let me execute the program. I
get an error messeage that states " The executable is unavailable. Try
unlocking the file again." I have no idea what this means but I tried to
unistall and reinstall the print shop 20 again and the same thing happened. I
then uninstalled the print shop 20 and tried to log into Money 2003 and my
password would not let me in. I reinstalled the print shop ver 20 and Money
2003 accepts my password as normal. Can you assist me with this problem?

Thanks
JV

"Bud Anderson" wrote:

> I have never used Money 2003 for doing anything other than debugging my MSN
> Portfolio when it refused to donwload transactions from Schwab over a year
> ago when certain OFX transactions were causing Brokerage download to abort.
> Support kept telling me to use Money, so I broke down and bought it (Money
> 2003) over a year ago. It did allow me to download brokerage data and see
> the audit trail of OFX transactions, and by trial and error I determined
> what was causing the problem. I couldn't get Schwab support to change what
> it was sending nor could I get MSN Portfolio support to allow downloading to
> continue when it encountered the "error" transaction as Money seemed to do.
> My final resolution (work around) was to quit downloading data for the 3 of
> my 28 portfolio accounts until after 3 or 4 months Schwab stopped sending
> the data. At that point I uninstalled Money 2003 and reinstated downloading
> the 3 accounts in MSN Portfolio. All was fine for over a year when the "New
> Improved" (NOT) MSN Portfolio was released in July. After three or four
> weeks of almost utter frustration I finally go a *.inv backup file to load
> and look halfway decent. Now the .mny file is about 20MB instead of the
> 300KB size of the .inv file and MicroSoft insists on trying to send the data
> to some server in never-never-land. I don't know if this has ever occurred
> or not (nor do I care as long as the data is only the machine I use to
> access it on). But it seems that if I want to get brokerage data downloaded
> I must use Money to accomplish the task. So back to my archieved worthless
> (to me) software bin I went and dragged out the Money 2003 disk and
> installed it. Trying to open Money 2003 prompts me for a password for my
> ..mny file. Every password that I have ever used for a passport has been
> tried as well as Schwab password, userid, old password I used on Money over
> a year ago before I uninstalled it. Nothing seems to work and keeps telling
> me I have entered an incorrect password. The My Portfolio.mny file I'm
> using is the one created from the latest .inv backup file (7/21/2004) which
> MSN Portfolio converted to the .mny file, and I don't believe I was ever
> asked for any password when it created it. "Help With Lost Passwords" only
> talks about .NET passwords and not .mny file passwords.
>
> I don't care about setting up bank and credit card accounts or anything
> other than getting my MSN Portfolio to reflect the download data from
> Schwab.
> Help what is Money 2003 looking for. Since the 1st thing it asks for is a
> password and I can't get past that point.
>
> Bud
>
>
>