problems with backup files for money 98

i recently purchased a new pc, and installed my version
of money 98, and it does not recognize the backup files i
saved on a cd-rw, however, it does bring them up on my
old pc. when attempting to start up money, it displays a
message that says 'cannot locate D:Financials....., this
may be due to the file being read only. you can change
this in windows explorer by changing its properties'
i have been able to open money, but cannot retrieve the
files of my accounts.
i have saved it (the backup files) to the hard drive, and
it says the same thing.
this problem is critical as this is where i take care of
the majority of my money management, and any help would
be greatly appriciated.

thanx,
(any info can be sent to hulkster2@att.net, or just
replied to.)

Dick
Thu Dec 11 20:01:23 CST 2003

Step 1 is to copy the file to the hard disk and assure that it's not set to
read-only from Windows Explorer file properties.

Also, why not just move the .MNY file directly from the old machine to the
new? Why backup the try to restore if you can burn a CD on the old machine?
It saves the entire backup/restore process.

Also, if you reinstalled M98, did you reinstall all of the patches (Internet
Updates)??? This may be hard as I think it has been reported here that
Microsoft has pulled them off the servers.

Also see http://www.bollar.org/msmoney/#Q72.

Also, it defeats me why you'd spend ten minutes trying to make M98 work on a
new machine. It was the single buggiest version of Money ever by a long
margin. M04 is $20 or less with careful shopping.

(That having been said, all too many users are having upgrade problems for
back-level data files. I'd certainly try your data file with the
downloadable M04 trial version, available at http://www.microsoft.com/money,
first to see what you are up against. If you go this route: a) Read and Heed
the warnings about the file upgrade process and non-revertability of an
upgrade file, and b) do not upgrade from the trial to the licensed version
on-line. Go buy the CD and save yourself a ton of hassle.)

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:04e401c3c034$85819400$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> i recently purchased a new pc, and installed my version
> of money 98, and it does not recognize the backup files i
> saved on a cd-rw, however, it does bring them up on my
> old pc. when attempting to start up money, it displays a
> message that says 'cannot locate D:Financials....., this
> may be due to the file being read only. you can change
> this in windows explorer by changing its properties'
> i have been able to open money, but cannot retrieve the
> files of my accounts.
> i have saved it (the backup files) to the hard drive, and
> it says the same thing.
> this problem is critical as this is where i take care of
> the majority of my money management, and any help would
> be greatly appriciated.
>
> thanx,
> (any info can be sent to hulkster2@att.net, or just
> replied to.)