I've been using Money 2005 ( quite happily ) for nearly a year now and
am trying to transfer the pgm. to another machine as I am breaking down
the machine it currently runs on.

After the initial install and when I first start 2005 I go thru the
normal .passport stuff and it identifies me and appears to be attempting
to open the sample ( or whatever ) my money.mny file it creates. I never
see the main page but get the ol' internal error message and a note
about msofd.dll. Now I'm not one to try to get help right away so I did
my research and all the msofd.dll errors I found were dealing with a
corrupt money file or portfolio. I never can get to the main opening
page !! Well I tried copying my current money file over to the new
machine and attempted going in the "back door" by clicking on the mny
file and attempted to start Money via the file association route. Money
identified my current 2005 file as a 2004 version file and wanted to
know if it should convert it. I said sure then it tells me it can't find
it or it's locked. Well it's where it found it and it's sure not locked!

So I can't go in the front door and I can't go in the back door so I am
really looking for suggestions on how to get this &%(!% thing to install
so that I can at least get to the main page. Just for info purposes
this is a fresh XPsp2 install with the basics installed .

TIA
JimBob
"Master of the Sr. Moment"
remove the "invalid" for personal response

Try navigating to where the sample.mny file is located and double click on
it. That should fire Money up and give you a chance to let the patch
download.

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Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.


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Larry wrote:
Larry,

Thanks for your response , that had crossed my mind as I remember doing
a product update download during the original install last year. The
main sticking point here is that I can't get to the main Money page to
do anything. I'm stopped both at the front and back doors. I'm gonna
keep looking ....

Jim Bob

Check your version from Help > About it should be 14.0.*.1105

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Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.


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JimBob <jimbrust@invalid.comcast.net> wrote in news:ubtFO6y2FHA.3052
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I'm pretty sure there was an update to 2005 last year that changed the
file structure of the .mny file somehow. I could be you're trying to
open a newer 2005 file than the fresh install of 2005 can recognize. Try
creating a new file with your fresh install and see if money updates
itself. If so, then try your old 2005 file. Hope that helps.

Bob Peel MVP wrote:
Thanks Bob , but that's what I meant by trying the back door. I get the
message about the file being a 2004 file and should I convert and when I
say yes Money tells me "I know what I think it is I just can't find it
now to do a conversion" ..... weird huh !!

I'm still messing with the OS so going to do a reformat and reload today
for another purpose and try it again later.

JimBob
"Master of the Sr. Moment"

But the sample.mny file "should" always be the same version as the Money
program. Try copying sample.mny from the install CD.

Alternatively can you create a new file? Don't agree to anything about
passport and see if that gets you the download.

--
Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.


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Bob Peel MVP wrote:

That's what I thought , start of the confusion !!!!

Try copying sample.mny from the install CD.

That's something I did not think about , I'll keep that in mind.
I'm going back to a fresh Win98SE install for the moment prior to an XP
upgrade. I'll take all these suggestions into account when doing the
new install. If nothing else I'm getting pretty good with various OS
install options though.

Thanks for suggestions !!!

JimBob