Transactions Can't Be Entered

I spend half my workweek on the road and have MS Money installed on both a
desktop machine and a laptop, in order to work on the same Money file on both
machines.

When "backing up" my desktop's primary Money file to a USB stick drive and
then "restoring" it on my laptop, I find I can open the Money file on my
laptop but cannot enter any new data to that file. When I fill in the boxes
for a new transaction on the laptop and hit "enter," the program responds,
"This transaction cannot be entered."

Why?
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Frugl

Dick
Mon Dec 05 13:04:51 CST 2005

See http://umpmfaq.info/faqdb.php?q=104 for one set of possibilities and
solutions..

"Frugl" <Frugl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:162FA055-1580-4EF1-9610-D111DFA69642@microsoft.com...
> I spend half my workweek on the road and have MS Money installed on both a
> desktop machine and a laptop, in order to work on the same Money file on
both
> machines.
>
> When "backing up" my desktop's primary Money file to a USB stick drive and
> then "restoring" it on my laptop, I find I can open the Money file on my
> laptop but cannot enter any new data to that file. When I fill in the
boxes
> for a new transaction on the laptop and hit "enter," the program responds,
> "This transaction cannot be entered."
>
> Why?

via_newsgroup
Mon Dec 05 13:18:49 CST 2005

In microsoft.public.money, Frugl wrote:

>I spend half my workweek on the road and have MS Money installed on both a
>desktop machine and a laptop, in order to work on the same Money file on both
>machines.
>
>When "backing up" my desktop's primary Money file to a USB stick drive and
>then "restoring" it on my laptop, I find I can open the Money file on my
>laptop but cannot enter any new data to that file. When I fill in the boxes
>for a new transaction on the laptop and hit "enter," the program responds,
>"This transaction cannot be entered."
>
>Why?

That's odd.

I would start by trying to restore that backup to the desktop
machine, but do not restore to the 'default' place. Instead restore
to a different name and/or folder. The purpose of this is to try to
figure out if the problem is with the Money install on the laptop,
or something else.

You can return to working with the original file by using the MRU
list at the bottom of the File menu.