Replace Microsoft Money?

Doc_N

FWIW, I'm using V12.0 (2004) and after an initial glitch recently (resolved by a restart) everything's now working fine.

matt38

That's good to know, thanks Doc N.

John_Gray

matt38 wrote: »

That problem wouldn't exist when I re-install Money 2000, would it?

No - you didn't mention reinstalling MM 2000, just renaming the folder. A reinstall would lose any settings you had for the originak installation (if any), but would otherwise be fine.

Chickereeeee

I have been running Money 2005 for many years - probably since 2005 actually. Works fine on latest Windows 10.


I also have the patch allowing download of fund and stock prices, which also works very well.


K

matt38

Thanks for the info, Chickereeeee.

Peter_Lanky

I too have been using Money 2004 on various operating systems with no issues. However it has certainly got 'clunky' to use a previous term, which I have found to be due to the data rather than the software.


So about every 5 years, after I have archived old data, I completely renew my database by exporting accounts to Excel and then reimporting into a new clean data file. The process is very laborious as things such as 'Bills & Deposits' and some reports have to be redone manually, but for half a day of pain, you end up with a clean fast data file.


I think the data files accumulate a lot of crap, particularly fund data, and retain it even after being cleaned, archived, repaired. Not having any technical knowledge of the software I can't explain this, but it is quite satisfying to do the conversion despite the tedium of it.

Terry98

Chickereeeee wrote: »

I have been running Money 2005 for many years - probably since 2005 actually. Works fine on latest Windows 10.


I also have the patch allowing download of fund and stock prices, which also works very well.


K

Is anyone using this http://moneymvps.org/faq/article/651.aspx to download the prices from the FT?

I have got as far creating a mapper file (under the heading Fund Prices) for all fund prices and need a bit of help setting it up.

Linton

Terry98 wrote: »

Is anyone using this http://moneymvps.org/faq/article/651.aspx to download the prices from the FT?

I have got as far creating a mapper file (under the heading Fund Prices) for all fund prices and need a bit of help setting it up.

I used it many years ago but for a much neater solution see: http://gaiersoftware.com/Money. This was created by an ex-MsMoney developer and interfaces directly with the MSMoney database. The one you refer to is rather messy in that (IIRC) it creates dummy buys/sells and requires an external portfolio.

Doshwaster

I have been using MS Money since about 2001 so I have a *lot* of data in there. It's a shame that Microsoft decided to continue it - it may be long in the tooth and missing some modern features (sync to my mobile would be nice!) but I haven't yet been able to find a better replacement especially one which will import my historic data.

Uxb

...and in a nutshell that is why Intuit/Quicken and MS abandoned the UK personal finance market.
The market was too small and users had the annoying habit of buying the software once for £35 and then using it for the next 10 years and not buying any new editions.

So it was just not economically viable to continue.