MS Money 2005 Fix

[N G]

Hi everyone,

After months and months are trying I finally worked out with the help of a smarter robot (Opus 5.5) what the problem has been all along.

Money 2005-2008 has an autoupdate.dll that tries to go out and make sure Money is up to date. Don’t need that anymore! Money locks itself while it does the check, but something about wine reads the lock differently than Windows. I’m grossly over-simplifying here, the details are pretty involved.

Essentially, we (me and the robot) figured out that autoupdate could be disabled by creating a file in the Money program folder called mars.ini and putting AutoUpdate=0 inside of it. This “disables” the problem.

So no changes to wine, no changes to any Money binary program files. The only change is adding a config file that Money is designed to read.

I’m working on the Linux version of msmoneysetup now, with the MacOS version coming shortly after that. I have more work to do with the Mac version because it’s currently on wine 10 and I want to get it to wine 11. 

Stand by for more,

Nathan

[Stephen Google]

I use the UK version of Money 2005 and don't have that problem

[N G]

My mistake, my excitement to get the word out, I left Linux/MacOS out of the topic title.

[Michael Shorten (Chgowiz)]

I don't have an issue with MSMoney locking up on my Mac, but is this a file we could create on our own and place somewhere? A "just in case" kind of thing?

[N G]

Yes, it goes inside /Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Money 2005/MNYCorefiles/ .

Make a text file called mars.ini and put:

AutoUpdate=0 

inside if it.I'm doing this for all versions of Money that run on macOS or Linux because the autoupdate functionality exists on all of them. Even Sunset has the wiring for it.

But you really should upgrade to the new version of msmoneysetup. Wine 11 is a lot better/faster than wine 10.

[N G]

For anyone who wants to try the mars.ini fix without using the new msmoneysetup (although I highly recommend you do! :) ) please put this in the mars.ini :

[Money]
AutoUpdate=0

I neglected to state the [Money} part in my previous message.

Nathan