multiple empty accounts showed up

I have three accounts with Broker X, which I've tracked for some time with
Money (2006 Premium). Only one of them was set up for automatic updates. As
soon as I enabled the other two for automatic updates, Money created SEVEN
new empty accounts ("Broker X Cash Account", "Broker X Cash Account #2", ...
"Broker X Margin Account", etc.) separate from the two I wanted to connect.

Next thing I know, I have NINE pending statements for these seven imaginary
and empty accounts, displaying "bank balance" totalling somewhere in the
range of $200,000! Good grief!

To quote Slim Pickens, What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on
here?

Cal
Fri Apr 14 14:45:42 CDT 2006

In microsoft.public.money, Paul Pedersen wrote:

>I have three accounts with Broker X, which I've tracked for some time with
>Money (2006 Premium). Only one of them was set up for automatic updates. As
>soon as I enabled the other two for automatic updates, Money created SEVEN
>new empty accounts ("Broker X Cash Account", "Broker X Cash Account #2", ...
>"Broker X Margin Account", etc.) separate from the two I wanted to connect.
>
>Next thing I know, I have NINE pending statements for these seven imaginary
>and empty accounts, displaying "bank balance" totalling somewhere in the
>range of $200,000! Good grief!
>
>To quote Slim Pickens, What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on
>here?
>

You might want to increase the number of backups that you keep, in
case you want to undo things back to an earlier point. In M06:
Tools->Settings->BackupOptions
I suggest checking
x Automatically backup my Money file every time I close Money
Save in [a place on your hard drive ]
x Ask me before backing up each time
x Compress Backup Files
Keep only the _20_most recent backup files [adjust to taste]


Without addressing all of your details, go as far as you can with
AccountList->MergeDuplicateAccounts.

If you don't understand why you would want to have a cash account to
go with an investment account, let us know.