Re: MSN Portfolio Manager Doesn't Sync Cash Balance with Money 2004 by jpr
jpr
Thu Jan 22 17:00:35 CST 2004
Same for me. Portfolio Manager used to sync my cash balances until I
"up"graded to 2003. Now it doesn't, which makes it much less useful. Every
month or so, synchronization stops working and new transactions don't show
up in Portfolio Manager. Removing everything and disabling synchronization
and then starting all over again gets me back in sync, but what a pain in
the neck!
I upgraded to 2003 hoping that it would fix the latter problem and instead
got the new problem of cash balances not working. I guess from your message
that it would be a mistake to upgrade to 2004 in hopes of the problem being
fixed. On top of that, there's no upgrade price! Does MS think we buy new
product every year?
-jpr
"William L. Oppenheim, M.D." <woppenhe@ucla.edu> wrote in message
news:ugT4jdL4DHA.1672@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I have had the same experiences.
>
> --
> William L. Oppenheim, M.D.
> woppenhe@ucla.edu
> "Sid Joyner" <sid_joyner@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:100omgicg8rdl33@corp.supernews.com...
> > Thanks for the reply, William.
> >
> > Yes, I have had similar experience with the synchronization feature of
> > Money. Like you, I have used it for a few years and seen it get better.
I
> > have, like you, destroyed my MSN Money accounts and restarted, often
with
> > aggravating and frustrating procedures. However, now about the only
> problem
> > I have seen of late is that it still does not sync cash balances. (If I
> used
> > MSN Money more, I'd probably find other remaining issues as well.)
> >
> > It's strange that the sync procedure doesn't just transfer the cash
> balance.
> > What I find especially strange is that it will leave the investment
> account
> > cash balance alone if it hasn't changed; however, it will wipe out the
> > investment cash balance in MSN Money if it has changed since the last
> > synchronization. And, of course, why is there a "Track cash balance"
check
> > box in the account properties in the Portfolio Manager.
> >
> > Anyway, I wish that I knew Microsoft is planning on fixing this. I would
> > think so, but I would have thought this would have been a bigger
priority
> as
> > it presents an incorrect account balance. Is it possible that there's
> > something we don't know about in using this field?
> >
> > Sid
> >
> > "William L. Oppenheim, M.D." <woppenhe@ucla.edu> wrote in message
> > news:#oBfHiX3DHA.2224@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > I have used synchronization for many years at this point. It is not a
> > > perfect system. Cash balances are not traded back and forth. They
> > maintain
> > > themselves in Money pretty well, but you will need to update them
> > manually
> > > in in msn moneycentral from time to time. About every other week, I
> > remove
> > > my web access to moneycentral all together, and then set it up again.
> > This
> > > is not an easy process either. Often I have to search my computer for
> all
> > > the *.inv files and delete them prior to setting up MS Money to access
> on
> > > the web. I have accepted the frailities of the synch process; it gets
a
> > > little better with each year, but it still leaves a lot to be desired.
> > > --
> > > William L. Oppenheim, M.D.
> > > woppenhe@ucla.edu
> > > "Sid Joyner" <sid_joyner@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:10096tftoitd673@corp.supernews.com...
> > > > Hi All:
> > > >
> > > > After working hard to get my Money 2004 to synchronize with MSN
Money
> > > > (thanks Mark...), I still have the following problem.
> > > >
> > > > My investment accounts which can be displayed by the MSN Portfolio
> > Manager
> > > > do not display the correct cash balance for my investment accounts.
> > After
> > > > the initial synchronization between Money 2004 and MSN Money, when I
> go
> > to
> > > > MSN Money/My Money and display the Portfolio Manager, my accounts
were
> > > > correct except for the cash balances were not transferred. (This
> > obviously
> > > > resulted in the account balances being incorrect.) I went into the
> > > > individual investment Accounts Details and checked the "Track cash
> > balance
> > > > associated with this account" and manually updated the correct cash
> > > balance
> > > > for the account.
> > > >
> > > > The next time I synchronized Money 2004 with MSN Money, if the cash
> > > balance
> > > > for an account had not changed, it remained unchanged in the
Portfolio
> > > > Manager from the amount I manually had updated previously. However,
if
> a
> > > > cash balance in an investment account had changed since the last
> > > > synchronization, the cash balance for the investment account was
> removed
> > > in
> > > > the Portfolio Manager and the "Track cash balance associated with
this
> > > > account" had been unchecked by the process.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know what is going on here? Am I misusing this feature
or
> is
> > > > there a bug I don't know about? Bottom line is that the
> synchronization
> > > > process returns incorrect investment account balances because it
> doesn't
> > > > handle the cash balances associated with these accounts correctly.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help.
> > > >
> > > > Sid
> > > >
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