MS Money replacement.

Organist

Malchester said:

Currently use Jiosoft and find it good. Does everything MS Money does. Not free though. One off payment includes all updates and phone call / email customer service (which I have found excellent)

Is Jiosoft still being maintained and updated?

Malchester

Organist said:

Malchester said:

Currently use Jiosoft and find it good. Does everything MS Money does. Not free though. One off payment includes all updates and phone call / email customer service (which I have found excellent)

Is Jiosoft still being maintained and updated?

As far as I am aware it is

Webbrj

I too have been a long time user of MS Money, and whilst it does what I need it to, I don't know whether it is supported on Mac Laptops. I don't really want to have two laptops, with one being solely used for MS Money

sausage_time

Webbrj said:

I too have been a long time user of MS Money, and whilst it does what I need it to, I don't know whether it is supported on Mac Laptops. I don't really want to have two laptops, with one being solely used for MS Money

See my earlier reply on this thread.  MS Money is apparently supported on Wine.  I was talking about Linux, but Wine is also supported on MacOS.  Wine is a system that allows Windows programs to be run on non-Windows systems, see https://www.winehq.org/ for more info.

BikingBud

I have it running on a very old Win 97 Asus notebook which I am concerned is going to expire very shortly, the case is swelling and the battery retains no charge.

I downloaded a newer version onto a Win11 machine and took both the original data and then a back up across to the newer machine in both cases it requested a password! I have never used a password for MS Money. I read on limited support available this might be a problem with later downloaded sunset versions but not sure.

I found the original disk and loaded the MS Money 2001 Standard that came as part of the Worksuite 2001 package but again even after being an apparently good install I cannot import data (.mny) or backup (.mbf) without this unknown password. Great! Anybody been able to overcome this?

Ideally I just want something that works, it currently does but the hardware will expire sooner rather than later. I actually prefer Mac to MS as I do find that they "bork" older yet perfectly adequate SW. My Office for Mac package was often locking and crashing as it was trying to force updates and tell me it was out of date. I turned off auto update which keeps turning back on and it seems capability to conditionally format in excel and perform other basic functions is now not available leading to system crashes.

Anyway there are programs such as Money Manager for Mac: questions.php that might be the step forward, has anybody used this or such like? Don't need internet connectivity, the Asus was last connected around 2012!

Or perhaps even a windows capability that isn't an emulator (WINE - https://www.winehq.org/)

It is not the expense that is the problem as I appreciate the effort that goes into dev but it is the continual grinding of cash as part of a subscription that galls, see Black Mirror - Common People how far away are we?

someone

Use to be a big MS Money user, switched to GnuCash but then didn't keep it updated. Anyone know if any options have good Open Banking support for bank feeds?

NotRichAtAll

I use both moneydance and gnucash i like to have options if one breaks i have it covered

wmb194

BikingBud said:

I have it running on a very old Win 97 Asus notebook which I am concerned is going to expire very shortly, the case is swelling and the battery retains no charge.

I downloaded a newer version onto a Win11 machine and took both the original data and then a back up across to the newer machine in both cases it requested a password! I have never used a password for MS Money. I read on limited support available this might be a problem with later downloaded sunset versions but not sure.

I found the original disk and loaded the MS Money 2001 Standard that came as part of the Worksuite 2001 package but again even after being an apparently good install I cannot import data (.mny) or backup (.mbf) without this unknown password. Great! Anybody been able to overcome this?

Ideally I just want something that works, it currently does but the hardware will expire sooner rather than later. I actually prefer Mac to MS as I do find that they "bork" older yet perfectly adequate SW. My Office for Mac package was often locking and crashing as it was trying to force updates and tell me it was out of date. I turned off auto update which keeps turning back on and it seems capability to conditionally format in excel and perform other basic functions is now not available leading to system crashes.

Anyway there are programs such as Money Manager for Mac: questions.php that might be the step forward, has anybody used this or such like? Don't need internet connectivity, the Asus was last connected around 2012!

Or perhaps even a windows capability that isn't an emulator (WINE - https://www.winehq.org/)

It is not the expense that is the problem as I appreciate the effort that goes into dev but it is the continual grinding of cash as part of a subscription that galls, see Black Mirror - Common People how far away are we?

MS Money files have strict compatibility with the version they were created with. So a UK file won't work with e.g., the French or US versions of the software (there were lots of different localised versions). You should be able to find the final UK 2005 version easily enough online. Your 2001 UK (I'm guessing) should be upgradable to 2005 - IIRC the software will notice the version mis-match and ask of you want to upgrade.

You could try: make a backup/copy of your current file, put a password on it and then see whether that will work on your W11 machine with Money 2001 (assuming this is the same version as on your W97 machine).