Can Money Essentials read my Money 2003 files?

pamela

Re: Money 2003 to Money Essentials by Cal

Cal
Sat Mar 29 17:23:06 CDT 2008

In microsoft.public.money, Buckhorn Gal <Buckhorn
Gal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Can Money Essentials read my Money 2003 files?
>

No.

Re: Money 2003 to Money Essentials by Chris

Chris
Sat Mar 29 19:35:32 CDT 2008

"Buckhorn Gal" <Buckhorn Gal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message =
news:F59C189E-987E-4E2B-AFD8-3DB879B591AF@microsoft.com...

> Can Money Essentials read my Money 2003 files?

No and, in the view of many users posting here, it's a considerable =
downgrade.
--=20
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

Re: Money 2003 to Money Essentials by BuckhornGal

BuckhornGal
Sun Mar 30 15:14:00 CDT 2008

Hi Chris,

Essentials has all the features that I need. Will Money 2003 work in Vista?
I don't really understand the Money migration path. Backward compatibility
is the most important feature in any new version to me.

The only reason I am considering a new version of Money is to protect my
data in Vista. What do you suggest?


"Chris Cowles" wrote:

> "Buckhorn Gal" <Buckhorn Gal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F59C189E-987E-4E2B-AFD8-3DB879B591AF@microsoft.com...
>
> > Can Money Essentials read my Money 2003 files?
>
> No and, in the view of many users posting here, it's a considerable downgrade.
> --
> Chris Cowles
> Gainesville, FL
>

Re: Money 2003 to Money Essentials by BuckhornGal

BuckhornGal
Sun Mar 30 15:27:00 CDT 2008

Can you explain the logic behind newer versions of Money not being able to
read older versions' data? I lost everything in a house fire in 2003 and had
my data in an off-site Money 99 backup file. Money 2003 was never able to
read that backup file and I lost 5 years of data. Is there some sort of
export and import process I can go through to move data from an older version
to a newer version?

pamea

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

> In microsoft.public.money, Buckhorn Gal <Buckhorn
> Gal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Can Money Essentials read my Money 2003 files?
> >
>
> No.
>

Re: Money 2003 to Money Essentials by Cal

Cal
Sun Mar 30 15:40:25 CDT 2008

In microsoft.public.money, Buckhorn Gal wrote:

>Can you explain the logic behind newer versions of Money not being able to
>read older versions' data? I lost everything in a house fire in 2003 and had
>my data in an off-site Money 99 backup file. Money 2003 was never able to
>read that backup file and I lost 5 years of data. Is there some sort of
>export and import process I can go through to move data from an older version
>to a newer version?
>
>pamea
>
>"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:
>
>> In microsoft.public.money, Buckhorn Gal <Buckhorn
>> Gal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Can Money Essentials read my Money 2003 files?
>> >
>>
>> No.
>>

Re: Money 2003 to Money Essentials by Cal

Cal
Sun Mar 30 15:58:02 CDT 2008

In microsoft.public.money, Buckhorn Gal wrote:

>Can you explain the logic behind newer versions of Money not being able to
>read older versions' data?

I won't try.

Is there more to this story? For example, did you buy Essentials
without trying the 60-day free trial first?

> I lost everything in a house fire in 2003 and had
>my data in an off-site Money 99 backup file. Money 2003 was never able to
>read that backup file and I lost 5 years of data.

Money 2003 should have had no problem restoring a Money 99 backup
file if they were from the same country.


> Is there some sort of
>export and import process I can go through to move data from an older version
>to a newer version?
>
You want Money Plus Deluxe if you are in the US.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913108/en-us would be needed if you
were upgrading from Money 98.


>pamea
>
>"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:
>
>> In microsoft.public.money, Buckhorn Gal <Buckhorn
>> Gal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Can Money Essentials read my Money 2003 files?
>> >
>>
>> No.
>>

Re: Money 2003 to Money Essentials by Marilyn

Marilyn
Sun Mar 30 17:29:27 CDT 2008

Money is 100% backwards compatible. The problem is the Money Essentials *is
NOT MSMoney*. Essentials is not a replacement for Money Standard but a
minimum product like Quicken Starter Edition. You can't go forward because
it is not the same product. Go with Plus Deluxe and you can use your 2003
Standard/Deluxe/Premium data.
--
Peace,
BobJ

"Buckhorn Gal" <BuckhornGal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9ACC7C87-2F54-474C-A780-69393FB63DF7@microsoft.com...
> Hi Chris,
>
> Essentials has all the features that I need. Will Money 2003 work in
> Vista?
> I don't really understand the Money migration path. Backward
> compatibility
> is the most important feature in any new version to me.
>
> The only reason I am considering a new version of Money is to protect my
> data in Vista. What do you suggest?
>
>
> "Chris Cowles" wrote:
>
>> "Buckhorn Gal" <Buckhorn Gal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F59C189E-987E-4E2B-AFD8-3DB879B591AF@microsoft.com...
>>
>> > Can Money Essentials read my Money 2003 files?
>>
>> No and, in the view of many users posting here, it's a considerable
>> downgrade.
>> --
>> Chris Cowles
>> Gainesville, FL
>>



Re: Money 2003 to Money Essentials by Chris

Chris
Sun Mar 30 21:47:22 CDT 2008

"Buckhorn Gal" <BuckhornGal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message =
news:9ACC7C87-2F54-474C-A780-69393FB63DF7@microsoft.com...

> Essentials has all the features that I need. Will Money 2003 work in =
Vista? =20
> I don't really understand the Money migration path. Backward =
compatibility=20
> is the most important feature in any new version to me.
>=20
> The only reason I am considering a new version of Money is to protect =
my=20
> data in Vista. What do you suggest?

I have no experience with 2003 in Vista but I believe it should work =
fine. If you don't need stock prices, online updates of any kind, or =
customer support, stick with what you have. Be sure to put your data in =
a subfolder of users\documents, not the default program files location =
of older money versions.
--=20
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL