Money 2006 - Balance Problems

I am running Money 2006 - Canadian Edition. It read my old files from Money
2002 with no problems.

I am trying to balance my credit card account. When I enter my new balance
owing in the balance this account window, I get a figure that has no
relation to what I have entered. In this case, I own $550.00 and my
previous balance is $35.00. The total should be $585. Instead, it gives me
a figure of $2500.00. I have no idea where that comes from. Worse, when I
check off my debts, its final figure does not agree with my EXEL results,
to say nothing of my own addition and subtraction.

I have run the repair tool and it reports back that nothing was found out
of order. I have run the simple repair and the level 2 repair.
My only recourse appears to be to check off all of my debts (and payments)
in the usual way, and then to enter the left over sum as a balance.

I have a second Money file (on an laptop) with some of this material on it
and it balances the
account with no problems. What is causing this problem and what can I do to
eliminate it?

Thanks,

John Reid

Cal
Sun May 04 13:52:27 CDT 2008

In microsoft.public.money, John Reid wrote:

>I am running Money 2006 - Canadian Edition. It read my old files from Money
>2002 with no problems.
>
>I am trying to balance my credit card account. When I enter my new balance
>owing in the balance this account window, I get a figure that has no
>relation to what I have entered. In this case, I own $550.00 and my
>previous balance is $35.00. The total should be $585. Instead, it gives me
>a figure of $2500.00. I have no idea where that comes from. Worse, when I
>check off my debts, its final figure does not agree with my EXEL results,
>to say nothing of my own addition and subtraction.
>
>I have run the repair tool and it reports back that nothing was found out
>of order. I have run the simple repair and the level 2 repair.
>My only recourse appears to be to check off all of my debts (and payments)
>in the usual way, and then to enter the left over sum as a balance.
>
>I have a second Money file (on an laptop) with some of this material on it
>and it balances the
>account with no problems. What is causing this problem and what can I do to
>eliminate it?

First, change the View. If the view is changed to show only
unreconciled transactions or in some other way, the You Owe amount
should not change. If it does, check back.

Otherwise, I would put the laptop and the desktop side by side. Sort
the register from oldest to newest. Find the earliest spot where the
Balance column differs, and add or correct the entry on the desktop.
That should make that balance agree.