Money management software

BreamoreBoy

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Win98 & WinXP are not supported either my friend but they still work. If you read again #19 / 23 / 26 / 28 you will see that they do continue to work in Feb 2011, and probably will do for the next third or more decade.

I hope this helps your understanding

No. I've MM and use it, but telling someone to get it now strikes me as daft when supported equivalents are available.

Billy-no-Money

I second moving over to Excel - it's not that hard to learn, and Excel 2007 onwards brings the concept of 'Tables' which really helps with management of lists which grow over time.

The trouble with using any dedicated finance package is that unless its underlying data is held in a portable format, you run the risk of one day finding that you can't access it. Fair enough, most support export / import from CSV, but if your WinXP PC dies how do you do the export if the app won't run on your new Win7 PC?

If you use proprietary software you MUST stay on the vendor's support path - which might mean upgrading the software and/or PC when you really don't want to. If you don't do this the software could continue to run for years but one day you'll find you need or want to upgrade and there's no path available.

Running unsupported software and/or hardware is a big issue in the IT industry, very often businesses don't understand the risk they're exposed to. With personal computers the risk is mainly one of inconvenience, but losing access to your personal finance data could cost you real money.

I'm not recommending one package or another, just pointing out that it's sometimes best to stick to de facto standards so you stand a better chance of long-term support.

Richie-from-the-Boro

BreamoreBoy wrote: »

No. I've MM and use it, but telling someone to get it now strikes me as daft when supported equivalents are available.

Which of these are compatible, list them please, and their prices, as stated earlier MMoney is legal - free - and it works.

Supported / unsupported is irrelevant - works is fit for purpose and does what I want is relevant / doesn't work, isn't fit for purpose and does what I want is irrelevant.

List those equivalents that do what MMoney does please.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Billy-no-Money wrote: »

I second moving over to Excel - it's not that hard to learn, and Excel 2007 onwards brings the concept of 'Tables' which really helps with management of lists which grow over time.

The trouble with using any dedicated finance package is that unless its underlying data is held in a portable format, you run the risk of one day finding that you can't access it. Fair enough, most support export / import from CSV, but if your WinXP PC dies how do you do the export if the app won't run on your new Win7 PC?

If you use proprietary software you MUST stay on the vendor's support path - which might mean upgrading the software and/or PC when you really don't want to. If you don't do this the software could continue to run for years but one day you'll find you need or want to upgrade and there's no path available.

Running unsupported software and/or hardware is a big issue in the IT industry, very often businesses don't understand the risk they're exposed to. With personal computers the risk is mainly one of inconvenience, but losing access to your personal finance data could cost you real money.

I'm not recommending one package or another, just pointing out that it's sometimes best to stick to de facto standards so you stand a better chance of long-term support.

- ok your choice

- its SOHO not the IT industry, read earlier threads, 18 years and counting, no data lost

- what support, from whom / for what purpose ?

- it is a de facto standard, has been for decades and will continue for decades

BreamoreBoy

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Which of these are compatible, list them please, and their prices, as stated earlier MMoney is legal - free - and it works.

Supported / unsupported is irrelevant - works is fit for purpose and does what I want is relevant / doesn't work, isn't fit for purpose and does what I want is irrelevant.

List those equivalents that do what MMoney does please.

gnucash and kmymoney are both similar and are open source.

What you want is probably irrelevant to the OP. If for example the "There has been an error reading or writing the file '.'" bug hasn't been fixed in the later versions of the code (I have v14) I wouldn't imagine anyone being too happy having paid for the software on your recommendation.

Richie-from-the-Boro

BreamoreBoy wrote: »

gnucash and kmymoney are both similar and are open source.

What you want is probably irrelevant to the OP. If for example the "There has been an error reading or writing the file '.'" bug hasn't been fixed in the later versions of the code (I have v14) I wouldn't imagine anyone being too happy having paid for the software on your recommendation.

If you want to post your comment's and opinions to the O/P feel free that's what the forum is for.

What I want from you is very relevant. You posted your comments in my # as a personal reply to me not to the O/P, all the real world evidence that MMoney continues to work is there for all to see and read and yet you continue with the if's what's but's scenarios - they are not facts.

Then you quote it's paid software, I told you it was free.

I'll have a look at your suggested alternatives tomorrow. I'd no idea they did British banking, in fact I thought there was no bank that directly supports KMyMoney, or that KMyMoney support BBICS or IBAN's. Ditto for gnucash. However as stated I have an open mind on them and I'll have a look Tuesday.

BTW if your getting the error "" There has been an error reading or writing the file "", are you using winblows or a Linux varient ?

nick88

Have you considered using an online system? There's a number of companies that offer it, including MoneyDashboard and LoveMoney, but I've been using Yodlee MoneyCenter, which all of those websites use as their backend.

You get most of the features you do with a software package, such as automatic import from banking websites, automatic categorisation, and spending analysis, but it's all on a webpage, so you can access it from anywhere.

I've posted this in another thread, but it's not for everyone - you might not feel comfortable handing over your username and password to a third party, but this technology is used by a number of banks in the US.

Q_J_P

GSP Money Matters failed to load on my computer running Windows 7 (64 bit) but I managed to get it running under “XP Mode”. However I found this very “clunky” and decided to try it by changing the operating system to Windows 7 (32 bit) and found that GSP Money Matters ran fine. Thank goodness because it’s a great program and I can’t find a modern program which has similar functionality.