Microsoft Money investment transactions

Argyt

Hi, I have been using MS Money for many years but have suddenly hit a problem entering investment buy and sell transactions. If I enter one, Money stops working. If I delete an existing transaction, I can enter one new one, but if I enter another one, Money stops working. I can enter other (e.g. bank) transactions without problems. It is as if there is a limit to the number of investment transactions but I don't think there is supposed to be such a limit. I am using the 2005 release. Any help very welcome.

le_loup

I have not met this problem and I have a lot of investment transactions.
I'm using the same release on Windows 10.
If I were you I'd delete the program and reload it.

cloud_dog

When was the last time you archived? If you haven't, how many years have you been running MS Money?

Not sure if there are limits due to MS Money being a 32-bit application and whether it is possibly using SQL-Lite (or whatever it was called back in the day) as the database and it has hit some limit? (just guessing here)

Perhaps make a copy of your file in another folder, open up the copy, either archive data for a period of time or delete a number of investment entries and see how many more fictitious entries you can re-add. If you delete 10 and can only re-add 10 in this copied file then it appears you may have hit some limit.

EDIT: According to MS Money support page there aren't any limits.

wmb194

If you haven’t already tried it make a backup and try the ‘Repair Money File’ options - quick and standard - in the file menu. Sometimes this fixes whatever issues it’s having.

Argyt

I ran CHKDSK which appears to have fixed the problem. Thanks for your replies everyone.