FYI: When you restore a Money file, an extra MBF is created.

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Cal Learner

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Feb 19, 2026, 3:26:46 PM (7 days ago) Feb 19
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You may or may not have noticed. MBF stands for Money Backup File.

Using a command or terminal window, if you do 
dir *Backup*.mbf 
in your folder with your Money files, these are probably files that came to exist when you restored a *.mbf previously. Note they will be bigger than your other *.mbf files if your normal backups are compressed.

attrib  *Backup*.mbf
will show the attributes. Expect R, which means Read-only, which indicates you cannot delete them.

attrib -R  *Backup*.mbf
will clear the Read-only attribute. Like most things in Windows, this is not case-sensitive. 

del  *Backup*.mbf
can now delete those files, if you like, to reclaim some space. Careful...

I put my scheduled backups onto a USB flash drive. That is mainly to not have my main drive failure lose all of my backups.


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