Money 04 Archive won't shed old data

I have tried to archive to create a new file with only
this year's data. I have selected all files, some files
and single files but it fails to remove data prior to the
date inserted. What's up with that?
Thanks for any reply.
(:

Dick
Sat Aug 30 07:34:08 CDT 2003

If you are expecting the archive target file to be a reduced set of the data
in the file you were in when you went to File|Archive, you clearly don't
understand how archiving works. The "archive" file produced by File|Archive
is a **complete copy, just like File|Backup** of the source file you just
archived. After this copy is made, Money goes through the original file and
deletes ***some*** of the transactions prior to the date you specified. Not
all are deleted due to limitations in Money design and concerns over things
like cap gains recordkeeping.

Archiving is very limited; many of us do not use it. It creates lots more
problems than it solves. It solves, ear as many of us can tell,
approximately nothing.

"dainw" <dain.cw@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:016101c36ec5$9bdbc5b0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I have tried to archive to create a new file with only
> this year's data. I have selected all files, some files
> and single files but it fails to remove data prior to the
> date inserted. What's up with that?
> Thanks for any reply.
> (: