One money file, 2 computers

I am new to money. I want to be able to access money both from work and at
home. To facilitate this, I have a portable Hard Drive. I installed money
to it at home, installed money to it at work (stoopid registry) pointed both
instances to a single money file.

Now, when I run it at home, everything is fine. When I run it at work I get
a critical file is missing error. I reinstall at work and everything is fine
again. I go home and voila! A critical file is missing error! <grrr />

How do I skin this cat?
Is there a better way of doing this?
I won't be purchasing money until I can cleanly run it.

--
Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows
ASPInsider
http://sol3.net/blogs/starpilot

Dick
Fri Feb 17 13:23:41 CST 2006

I can't say exactly what's going on. But, from what you are trying to do, it
isn't entirely surprising that something would blow up. I don't know why you
blame the registry for this. The bottom line is that the application wasn't
designed to be installed and used this way. It's entirely possible the
different platforms actually result in the application installer installing
different stuff differently. The registry is just an enabling tool for a
design that had no requirement for an application installation to be
entirely self standing--indeed for lots of good reasons (that break in this
case) to encourage it not to be.

Install Money on the local drives of each machine, not the portable. Don't
try to move the application back and forth.

Store the Money data file on the portable machine. Move the data back and
forth.

"Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows"
<KeithStarPilotBarrows@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0CBC98EF-0585-4899-8B51-1CA63829E2D2@microsoft.com...
> I am new to money. I want to be able to access money both from work and
at
> home. To facilitate this, I have a portable Hard Drive. I installed
money
> to it at home, installed money to it at work (stoopid registry) pointed
both
> instances to a single money file.
>
> Now, when I run it at home, everything is fine. When I run it at work I
get
> a critical file is missing error. I reinstall at work and everything is
fine
> again. I go home and voila! A critical file is missing error! <grrr />
>
> How do I skin this cat?
> Is there a better way of doing this?
> I won't be purchasing money until I can cleanly run it.

Hawii
Fri Feb 17 13:13:52 CST 2006


"Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows"
> Now, when I run it at home, everything is fine. When I run it at work I
> get
> a critical file is missing error. I reinstall at work and everything is
> fine
> again. I go home and voila! A critical file is missing error! <grrr />
>
> How do I skin this cat?
> Is there a better way of doing this?
> I won't be purchasing money until I can cleanly run it.
Just install money on both computers and restore from the backup
on the portable drive when you start money.

KeithStarPilotBarrows
Fri Feb 17 13:50:32 CST 2006

Actually, the app should be able to work this way. The registry on each
machine is what enables the app to run in a windows environment. Because of
the registry requirements, it has to be *installed* on each machine. :)

What is the difference between installing on a external drive and an
internal drive? E: is the same on both machines - the first partition on the
external drive.

It appears that the web service, or whatever E:\Tools\MSMoney
2006\MNYCoreFiles.NEW.{9D6EAA4F-27B2-4407-AC72-4BBD2FCB6ED1} is (it's not a
directory like explorer reports) is getting jacked. When you run Money from
machine 1 it synchs up. Go to machine 2 and run and it's broken. Reinstall
and now machine 2 is synched up. Go back to machine 1 and it's broken.

--
Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows
ASPInsider
http://sol3.net/blogs/starpilot


"Dick Watson" wrote:

> I can't say exactly what's going on. But, from what you are trying to do, it
> isn't entirely surprising that something would blow up. I don't know why you
> blame the registry for this. The bottom line is that the application wasn't
> designed to be installed and used this way. It's entirely possible the
> different platforms actually result in the application installer installing
> different stuff differently. The registry is just an enabling tool for a
> design that had no requirement for an application installation to be
> entirely self standing--indeed for lots of good reasons (that break in this
> case) to encourage it not to be.
>
> Install Money on the local drives of each machine, not the portable. Don't
> try to move the application back and forth.
>
> Store the Money data file on the portable machine. Move the data back and
> forth.
>
> "Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows"
> <KeithStarPilotBarrows@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0CBC98EF-0585-4899-8B51-1CA63829E2D2@microsoft.com...
> > I am new to money. I want to be able to access money both from work and
> at
> > home. To facilitate this, I have a portable Hard Drive. I installed
> money
> > to it at home, installed money to it at work (stoopid registry) pointed
> both
> > instances to a single money file.
> >
> > Now, when I run it at home, everything is fine. When I run it at work I
> get
> > a critical file is missing error. I reinstall at work and everything is
> fine
> > again. I go home and voila! A critical file is missing error! <grrr />
> >
> > How do I skin this cat?
> > Is there a better way of doing this?
> > I won't be purchasing money until I can cleanly run it.
>
>
>

KeithStarPilotBarrows
Fri Feb 17 14:02:27 CST 2006

OK. Can I install to my internal drive and keep the Money File on the
external drive? If so, that will be a fix that would work for my purposes.
At least it'll bypass the step of restoring everytime I open Money. :)

--
Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows
ASPInsider
http://sol3.net/blogs/starpilot


"Hawii Mahal" wrote:

>
> "Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows"
> > Now, when I run it at home, everything is fine. When I run it at work I
> > get
> > a critical file is missing error. I reinstall at work and everything is
> > fine
> > again. I go home and voila! A critical file is missing error! <grrr />
> >
> > How do I skin this cat?
> > Is there a better way of doing this?
> > I won't be purchasing money until I can cleanly run it.
> Just install money on both computers and restore from the backup
> on the portable drive when you start money.
>
>
>

Cal
Fri Feb 17 14:25:34 CST 2006

In microsoft.public.money, Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows wrote:

>OK. Can I install to my internal drive and keep the Money File on the
>external drive? If so, that will be a fix that would work for my purposes.
>At least it'll bypass the step of restoring everytime I open Money. :)

You understand that what would be simpliest would be to install to
each C: drive and to have the data file on your portable drive?

Alternatively, you could try installing to the portable drive at
work and to the C: drive at home.

Dick
Fri Feb 17 15:19:42 CST 2006

Why should it "be able to work this way" besides because you want it to?

> What is the difference between installing on a external drive and an
> internal drive?

Likely as not, other things in the machines environments like common or
shared components used by other applications on one machine or the other.
Whatever is providing interface{9D6EAA4F-27B2-4407-AC72-4BBD2FCB6ED1}is
probably installation specific according to difference between the two
machines. I.e., it points to an interface that needs a different
implementation in one environment and other. (I'm no OLE/COM expert, but
some of these are pointers to OTHER REGISTRY stuff that are, in turn,
pointers to shared components that may well be provided by other things like
IE and the rest of the OS. Likewise if Money installs any shared components,
it will put stuff in the registry in non-obvious places so that others can
use this stuff transparently.) Have you compared the files actually
installed? Assuming one or more of them doesn't, if you are really fixated
on moving the app to and fro (this seems the hard way to me) you might be
able to coerce this to work with some kind of scripted wrapper around Money
that fakes out the installation by moving file to and fro and even mucking
with the registry on the fly. But why? Surely the disk space in your
portable is more precious than in the machines you plug it into.

> The registry on each
> machine is what enables the app to run in a windows environment

It is entirely possible to build a windows app that runs in the Windows
environment and has no dependency on the registry whatsoever. Most people
don't choose to do so. Too much pain. Too little gain. Way too hard to make
an app that will work richly in all possible Win environments if you attempt
to do so.

"Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows"
<KeithStarPilotBarrows@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:05C01DDB-55B0-48D1-9CC1-9AD892F10A35@microsoft.com...
> Actually, the app should be able to work this way. The registry on each
> machine is what enables the app to run in a windows environment. Because
of
> the registry requirements, it has to be *installed* on each machine. :)
>
> What is the difference between installing on a external drive and an
> internal drive? E: is the same on both machines - the first partition on
the
> external drive.
>
> It appears that the web service, or whatever E:\Tools\MSMoney
> 2006\MNYCoreFiles.NEW.{9D6EAA4F-27B2-4407-AC72-4BBD2FCB6ED1} is (it's not
a
> directory like explorer reports) is getting jacked. When you run Money
from
> machine 1 it synchs up. Go to machine 2 and run and it's broken.
Reinstall
> and now machine 2 is synched up. Go back to machine 1 and it's broken.

Hawii
Sun Feb 19 14:05:52 CST 2006

Yes, it will work.
However I run into problem with external drives since they may have
different drive letters for each computer.
I have just noticed that I could not remove external drive until money is
out of mix and it does not actually die
until I use CAD.

"Keith ''StarPilot'' Barrows"
<KeithStarPilotBarrows@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:60B1E801-35CA-4181-A0BE-E9D8E63F6749@microsoft.com...
> OK. Can I install to my internal drive and keep the Money File on the
> external drive? If so, that will be a fix that would work for my
> purposes.
> At least it'll bypass the step of restoring everytime I open Money. :)