Had to get a new box last week since old one got toasted in local power
surge. Oh well. I used to back up my Money 2002 info to a floppy. Lo and
behold, didn't notice that new box didn't have floppy drive. I assume if I
transfer that old info from floppy onto a CD I'll be able to update the
newest version of Money on the new box? It is Money 2005.
From the help file in Money 2005 it sounds like I have to insert
the CD and go to File,
Restore backup then browse for location?
Again I assume it will transfer all the old accounts and relevant
info to those accounts into the new version?

For old times sake you might want to explore a USB floppy drive. Many
Notebooks these days come without a floppy and it can be useful for
transferring small files.

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Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

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"the Staring Frogs of Southern Iberia" <noaddress@noaddress.com> wrote in
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That's how it should work and what it's supposed to do.

"the Staring Frogs of Southern Iberia" <noaddress@noaddress.com> wrote in
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That's what my other option was considering the money files I
backup tend to be on the small side. Hate to have to back up to CD's since
from prior experience it seems to take forever compared to the speed of the
floppy disk.
Other option is to remove old floppy from old box and try to install
it into the new box. I've looked inside to see if the mobo had an IDE
connector and extra power supply. As far as I can tell it looks like I
should be able to slide it right in.
In poking around on the new box though, I noticed in the Users Guides
it made note this system will not support an Internal floppy so I may have
to look at USB externals as mentioned. Thanks for the suggestions.