restore problems

I just opened my checkbook in Money 2004 and find my balance and last
check is the last check I wrote in 2003. I do have the first 6 months
of 2004 on a floppy but am unable to put that information into my
checkbook on my hard drive!! I would appreciate some advice. Thank
you!

via_newsgroup
Mon Sep 06 14:47:41 CDT 2004

In microsoft.public.money, David Davidson wrote:

>I just opened my checkbook in Money 2004 and find my balance and last
>check is the last check I wrote in 2003. I do have the first 6 months
>of 2004 on a floppy but am unable to put that information into my
>checkbook on my hard drive!! I would appreciate some advice. Thank
>you!

One floppy was enough?

I would copy the file from the backup floppy to a
directory/folder on the hard drive.. This will give you an extra
backup and will separate any problems of reading the floppy media
from some other potential problem. This is not the common way, and
it is not usually necessary. But especially if it is my only
backup, I would consider the copy to hard disk step.

The file will be named *d1.mbf.

In WE, double-click the *d1.mbf file. That should launch Money and
start the restore. When Money prompts for the next diskette, click
OK.

If you are restoring directly from floppy diskette, you can insert
the first floppy and double click the *d1.mbf file. Change
diskettes when prompted.

You will have a chance to change the location or filename for where
the restored data will go. It is good to browse to a location. I
would restore to a different file name than you currently use so
that you do not overwrite that file, in case it turns out to be
useful in the future.

Michael
Tue Sep 07 06:29:07 CDT 2004

Are you sure you are opening the correct Money file? If you could locate
the correct file using the Windows Explorer, you should be able to double
click the file and open it. Money will always open the last file you worked
with, so if you accidentally opened an older file, that will become your
default work file.

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regards,
Michael Abbaticchio
MVP for Exchange Server
http://exchange.mvps.org


"David Davidson" <ddavidson@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:cde48647.0409061130.7988c646@posting.google.com...
>I just opened my checkbook in Money 2004 and find my balance and last
> check is the last check I wrote in 2003. I do have the first 6 months
> of 2004 on a floppy but am unable to put that information into my
> checkbook on my hard drive!! I would appreciate some advice. Thank
> you!