98 to 2005 troubles- narrowed to accounts

It was over a month ago that I started this process in the thread
started with this post;
Subject: opening Money 98 file in 2005
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:36:01 -0500
Message-ID: <dtj4p31skfp5q0nnnfkb7o9plohvl40usa@4ax.com>
Thanks again to Cal, Bob & Mark for their time and suggestions.

Well, I've got it narrowed down a bit. My 98 file has 70 accounts
that go back to 1995 & the 16 bit MSMoney 3.

Through a [long] process of elimination I can open the file if I
delete 8 accounts.
Unfortunately only 2 are closed CC accounts that I am happy to delete.

The other offenders are my Cash account, an inventory account, and 4
active Credit Card accounts.

I have exported [from 98] to QIF & imported [to 2005] one of the CC
accounts and that seems to work- but I worry that I'll be losing some
data that I assume is still there. Is that an unfounded fear?
Does the fact that this seems to correct whatever problem 2005 had
with the file suggest what the problem could be?

Also the inventory file doesn't seem to be able to be exported to QIF.
It is regarding a home improvement project from 1996 so I want to keep
the data. [If I was doing it today I'd do it differently, but I don't
relish the idea of re-entering a bunch of data- though I guess the
text file report should simplify it some.]

Any thoughts on another way to get that inventory account into
Money2005?

Thanks,
Jim

Dick
Sat Feb 23 08:55:24 CST 2008

Small consolation to your overall issue, but there may be a way to report
this to a text file--can you set the Reports Printer up to do this in M05
and your OS? Not sure--and then you would have a copy/past problem rather
than a re-typing problem.

A scanner and OCR also comes to mind.

"Jim Elbrecht" <elbrecht@email.com> wrote in message
news:foa0s35qbkguadeo4okt8sq0o2bbc95jn7@4ax.com...
> though I guess the
> text file report should simplify it some.

Jim
Sat Feb 23 09:56:43 CST 2008

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko@mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote:

>Small consolation to your overall issue, but there may be a way to report
>this to a text file--can you set the Reports Printer up to do this in M05
>and your OS? Not sure--and then you would have a copy/past problem rather
>than a re-typing problem.

Money98 has the report to text file capability. The 'inventory'
file isn't huge so it is doable. I just wish I could figure out
what it is about these 8 accounts that chokes Money2005.

They don't have any common thread that I can figure out.

thanks,
Jim