What do we do with our Money 2002 Data?
jo...@lewqr.com
we purchased years back. We cannot find any backup disk that Dell
might have supplied for installing again.
Now, my wife ordered Money 2010, not knowing until later that her 2002
files would not be able to be imported into the new Money 2010. She is
also saying that the new 2010 program will no longer be called Money,
but will bear the Quicken name. Is this correct?
Question: If the above is true, is there any method to import these
2002 files into "Money/Quicken 2010"?
We certainly are not going to enter manually all the old records for
the past years into the 2010 version, be it called Money or Quicken.
Any suggestions besides keeping the old computer with the old Money
files on it and continue using its version of Money 2002?
teabag
I suggest you buy a second hand copy of 2002 on CD through eBay - but stay
with 2002; do NOT buy an earlier version - 2000 or 2001.
Money was also available on some versions of Microsoft Works - again don't
buy a pre 2002 version.
Money 2002 can certainly be installed on Windows 7 and future OS that can
create a 32 bit Virtual Machine should also be able to do so.
teabag
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>Money was also available on some versions of Microsoft Works - again don't
>buy a pre 2002 version.
>teabag
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My wife took for granted that it was not on here WORKS CD. It IS on
her WORKS CD! Problem solved.
Thank you so much for answering and making me check her WORKS CD.
jo...@lewqr.com
I should have added that I did install it on *my* new computer that
has all the sp3 upgrades. That probably means she will be able to
load it on her new computer, too. Importing her records from the old
comp should be no big deal, I guess.
Thanks again!
Dick Watson
version called Money+. Microsoft is existing the business because it wasn't
sufficiently profitable or large or both for their tastes. The offer that
Microsoft is advertising is for changing to their former competitor Quicken,
a software product of Intuit who also does "QuickBooks" and "TurboTax".
There are many threads here about that product and various conversion
experiences.
[Attn: J Pollard: this kind of confusion is one of the reasons that the MS
push ad for Q surprised me.]
There are some reasons you might want to consider upgrading to the last
supported version of Money, if you can find it via eBay or remaining retail
stock channels. Many here would suggest that M02 was better than M+. I
wouldn't.
M04 vs. M+ might be a push in my view. M02 was the first year of a
significant redesign to Money internals and had a number of "issues" that
got fixed by the time M04 rolled out. M05 screwed things all up again. By
the time M+ released, a lot, but by no means all, of those issues had been
fixed. In addition, the "Nuke the Bills" kludge repair tool had been added.
It shouldn't be necessary but sadly proves so over time for many users. M+
also has all of the latest API demand on OS and IE so *may* (extreme
speculation here) be supportable further into the future without resorting
to OS virtualization.
I would also suggest that M+ would better position you for using the Q
converter in the future if that appeals to you, among other things.
The M+ you might find in the marketplace will require online activation and
the capability to do so will be disabled after January 31, 2001. (In this
scenario, a reinstall on February 1, 2011, similar to what you are doing now
with M02, will not work. From the reason you are here, you can understand
why that would be A Bad Thing.) Microsoft has promised to ship an update to
M+ that removes this activation requirement. Without this promise, I would
not recommend changing from M02 to M+. Some have suggested Microsoft will
break this promise. I don't think they will but have been wrong before.
Food for thought. I suspect you will get dissenting opinions. So be it.
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Dick Watson
somewhere in your Documents folder/library. (NOT in Program Files!)
Double-click on it. All should be well.
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teabag
danr
using the MS Money 2002 since then and I just got a new Windows 7 Dell.
Still had the old CD, loaded it up and restored all my files!
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William R Wood
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> We have used Money 2002 since it came installed on the Dell computer
> we purchased years back. We cannot find any backup disk that Dell
> might have supplied for installing again.
>
> Now, my wife ordered Money 2010, not knowing until later that her 2002
> files would not be able to be imported into the new Money 2010. She is
> also saying that the new 2010 program will no longer be called Money,
> but will bear the Quicken name. Is this correct?
Not exactly. There is no such thing as Money 2010. MSFT cancelled all
Money products and has ceased all sales as of a few months ago. MSFT did
recommend that Money users switch to Quicken. There is a Quicken 2010 and
that must be what your wife ordered. Quicken is published by Intuit, a
completely different company from MSFT.
>
> Question: If the above is true, is there any method to import these
> 2002 files into "Money/Quicken 2010"?
Not directly. You would first have to covert your 2002 files into a newer
version of Money. This can be done by downloading the current Money Plus
trial version. I do not recommend that you try it because I see no reason
for you to switch to Quicken.
>
> We certainly are not going to enter manually all the old records for
> the past years into the 2010 version, be it called Money or Quicken.
>
> Any suggestions besides keeping the old computer with the old Money
> files on it and continue using its version of Money 2002?
You can continue to run M2002 on current computers and operating systems.
Some folks run M2002 on Vista or Win7. I run 2002 on XP SP3 and it works
great.
Refering to Dick Watson's post I would dissent about you trying Money Plus
(very rare since I virtually always agree with Dick). I ran M2002 since it
came out right up until this past spring when I switched to Money Plus.
After MSFT cancelled Money I switched back to M2002 because M+ requires
activation every time you install it. Since MSFT is taking down its
activation servers in Jan 2011, I could not reinstall M+ after that date.
MSFT has since promised to produce a version of M+ that does not require
activation but that has not happened yet. Probably will happen sometime
before Jan 2011.
But I found after switching back to M2002 that 2002 is better than M+ in
most ways. It is faster and I much prefer the cleaner interface. M+ has no
features lacking in M2002 except so called Nuke the Bills which allows you
to wipe out Bills/Deposits and then recreate them. From your description of
your use of Money, I doubt that you use Bills/Deposits so that is a non
issue for you. You should be able to continue to run M2002 for many many
years on current hardware and operating systems, I certainly intend to do
so. And since you do not use online updates there is certainly no
compelling reason for you to switch to Quicken.
Regards
Bill Wood
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>> We have used Money 2002 since it came installed on the Dell computer
>> we purchased years back. We cannot find any backup disk that Dell
>> might have supplied for installing again.
>>
>> Now, my wife ordered Money 2010, not knowing until later that her 2002
>> files would not be able to be imported into the new Money 2010. She is
>> also saying that the new 2010 program will no longer be called Money,
>> but will bear the Quicken name. Is this correct?
>
>Not exactly. There is no such thing as Money 2010. MSFT cancelled all
>Money products and has ceased all sales as of a few months ago. MSFT did
>recommend that Money users switch to Quicken. There is a Quicken 2010 and
>that must be what your wife ordered. Quicken is published by Intuit, a
>completely different company from MSFT.
>
Right. It was Quicken 2010 she ordered
Besides, as I said in a later post, we did find the 2002 Money disk,
so that solves a bunch of problems.
But thank you for your time in answering.
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>Regards
>
>Bill Wood
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