categories absent

I recently installed Money 2005, upgrading from a much earlier version 3.0,
and have trouble with categories. When I try to assign a category the only
category shown under expenses in the drop-down box is taxes! The help file
says "To categorise your transactions, you can use the standard categories
that come with Money or create your own custom categories." When I click on
Show Full Category List in Money Settings I get the message "Money could not
write to your Money file. The operation cannot be performed or another
application finished this task before you." Then when I click OK I get the
message "The standard categories have been added to your list of categories".
But they're not there! Where are they? I'd appreciate any help anyone can
give. Thanks.

Cal
Tue Oct 10 09:10:21 CDT 2006

In microsoft.public.money, Adelaide wrote:

>I recently installed Money 2005, upgrading from a much earlier version 3.0,
>and have trouble with categories. When I try to assign a category the only
>category shown under expenses in the drop-down box is taxes! The help file
>says "To categorise your transactions, you can use the standard categories
>that come with Money or create your own custom categories." When I click on
>Show Full Category List in Money Settings I get the message "Money could not
>write to your Money file. The operation cannot be performed or another
>application finished this task before you." Then when I click OK I get the
>message "The standard categories have been added to your list of categories".
>But they're not there! Where are they? I'd appreciate any help anyone can
>give. Thanks.

Ensure that Help->About shows version 14.0.*.1105. If it does not,
open Sample.mny from the install folder, connect to the internet,
and let the update proceed.

If it already was that version, I would try \txt\MF_FIX.TXT:If not
File->RepairMoneyFile->StandardFileRepair level 2.