Cash flow forecast punts all of a sudden

[Dick Watson]

Cash flow forecast worked yesterday, more or less.

Today the accounts and bills home page cash flow forecast just draws one
flat line. Nothing I do gets into the cash flow forecast page. It just
hourglasses for a while, and does nothing.

It gets MUCH WEIRDER.

I ran msmoney -s. Same story. (I have not tried salv -3 or similar. Yet.)

I opened last weekend's backup copy. Same story.

I rolled the computer date back to Thursday. Same story.

I opened a three week old backup file. Same story.

I opened a four week old backup file. Same story.

I opened the current file on my old desktop machine (which has not been
updated since 11-26-02, it tells me). Same story.

I opened a three month old backup copy on my old desktop machine. It has a
functioning cash flow forecast.

Does anybody have any thoughts? I **really** don't want to try to re-enter
three months worth of data and bills/deposit changes and so forth.

[bartley]

My cash flow forecast has done the same thing. None of
the cash flow management tools appear in the left pane as
directed by the online help. Perhaps we have the same
issue.
If you find resolution, please post it.

Bartley

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[Sandra W]

It sounds like a known bug.

It had to do with recurring payments that were scheduled.
The suggested solution was to start deleting recurring
payments until the problem went away. You can later add
them back.

I didn't like that solution a whole lot. I found, for me,
it was my paycheck -- I still didn't want to delete that
and re-add it as I put in all the detail.

I found that by setting the paycheck or recurrence to end
with the next payment, it would revive the cash flow
forecast, then I could reset my paycheck to recur beyond
the next occurance and the cash flow would still work.

I had it happen a few times when I started using 2002, but
I haven't had it happen in a long while.

-s

[Dick Watson]

I've been going down roads like that. I've found that deleting one specific
account (unfortunately it's one with LOTS of transactions) causes the cash
flow projection to return. Worse, this account can't just be deleted--doing
so crashes Money every time. (I've sent in literally dozens of those crash
reports today--ha ha, serves 'em right.)

Deleting some so far totally unrepeatable set of things related to this
account and recent transactions enables the account to be deleted. I've been
at this all day and have not yet identified what item or combination of
items is magic.

Re. your reticence to delete a complicated scheduled transaction: The Trick
in these cases is this: enter one occurrence temporarily in the register
exactly as it's scheduled, not necessarily as you'd enter it. (My paycheck,
for instance, has quite a number of optional entries that I occasionally
see, all setup in advance in the splits at $0; I delete them when entering.)
Then delete the scheduled transaction. Go to the account where you entered
the temporary transaction, r-click, Add to Bills and Deposits. Delete the
temporary transaction. Declare victory!

"Sandra W" <nob...@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
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[Dick Watson]

Based on your input I went back and concentrated a little more methodically
on the scheduled transactions. Sure enough, there was one, a very benign
nothing obvious about it stupid one, magic transaction that, once deleted,
made all cash flow projection happy again. Go figure?!? Since we all know
Money NEVER corrupts itself, it MUST have been something I did.

Thanks for refocusing my easter egg hunt.

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[Bartley Cox]

Mr. Watson... you are a genius!

You've saved me countless hours, which I regret that you
had to endure. Thanks for your solution.

Bartley

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