MS Money in MacOS - 24Apr2026

[N G]

Hi Everyone.

msmoneysetup_MacOS_FullInstall_24Apr2026.zip
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sfs3hPKa9LO8IQS9n3SqP7ENB0bSXixI/view?usp=drive_link

New in this release:

Discovered that wine-stable 11.0 for MacOS is causing a problem that makes Money crash; I haven't been able to figure it out or work around it. I tried to pin my previous installer to wine-stable 10.0 but it isn't available anymore in the Macports or homebrew repositories that I can see. So a new solution was needed.

I discovered https://com.github/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir and I'm now using it as the basis/method to install wine; this was a major rewrite. As a result, we're back to using homebrew instead of Macports because Sikarugir is installed via homebrew. Side benefit: a fresh installation takes around twenty minutes, probably less. Much better than the one hour marathons of the past!

Sikarugir is the successor to something called Wineskin Winery (this is how I had some of my early success running Money in MacOS). It still uses wine builds from the main MacOS wine developer. (https://github.com/Gcenx/wine-on-mac)

The benefit of all of this is that I can select which wine "engine" we're using, and it doesn't have to change as new versions of wine are released. This is huge for longterm stability. We won't change wine builds unless there's a compellig reason.

Homebrew components get installed to /opt/homebrew (wget, cabextract, gdown). The whole MSMoney.app "bottle' (Wineskin/Sikarugir terminology, means the same as prefix) is in your home folder in the MSMoney.app bundle. Everything needed to run Money lives in this app bundle; wine too, it's all self-contained now.

The two Guides have been updated as well. Since the Sikarugir wine portion was a major rewrite, the Guides have been updated to reflect. Please let me know if anyone sees any conflicts/mistakes/confusing parts. I've been working on this steady over the last week or so; details that are obvious to me might not make sense to you.

Just like the previous version of msmoneysetup, double-clicking on ofx/qfx files should import into Money via MNYIMPRT.app. I recommend opening Money first before doing so. Please ask if this part isn't straight forward on your system.

Something that has changed - the Extras folder and the four commands have been removed. If you want to configure things with DPI and resolution, you double-click on MSMoney.app in your home folder now. A Configuration window will popup, giving access to winecfg, regedit, cmd prompt, winetricks, etc.

My experience so far is that Money seems faster. Using Sikarugir and this wine engine seem better tuned and able to take advantage of Mac hardware. Please let me know about your experience with this, especially if you previously ran Money will the prior version of msmoneysetup.

Non-Sunset versions still have the same limitations with "Balance this account" and importing transactions.
David discovered that processing imported transactions from the Account List page is more reliable than from the Downloaded Statements page, might be helpful.
https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft-money/c/bb_yDFUg2RM/m/Ap0O6pvsDQAJ


Thanks to Michael for pointing out his issue here:
https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft-money/c/GD4WUHBs7e0/m/C8H9YftUBwAJ

Michael is running Tahoe and I'm still on Sequoia, so these are tested as good. Neither of these are Intel Macs so we're still not confirmed on those yet.

[N G]

For Ameridan:

Maybe we can update the MacOS page on your website please? I think there are people who find and follow your website instead of the guides. 

Thanks!
Nathan

[Dan Adkins]

I think I got it all.

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[N G]

Thanks Ameridan! Much appreciated. 

[J Hoban]

Nice work!   Installation went smoothly on Tahoe 26.4.1 - Money Sunset - M4 MacMini  

  

1) Money runs, although the console window displays a few ole error and a bunch of "fixm" messages about apparently benign stubbed out calls.  Log file attached.   None of this get in the way of runny Money.

2) MSMoneyQuotes starts up syncing a long list of currency rates from MSN.  Takes forever.  

[N G]

Yeah, MSMoneyquotes has always been like that for me. Just for comparison, how many seconds? It’s about 40 seconds for me, and I use the -m csv file option.

How long does it take in Windows?

[N G]

If you go into msmoneysetup/desktop/MSMoney.sh and edit:

    wineconsole "$MSMONEYQUOTES" -b -c -v -m 2>&1 | tee -a "$LOGS/wine-quotes.error.log" 

to 

    wineconsole "$MSMONEYQUOTES" -b -c -v -m 2>&1 | tee -a "$LOGS/wine-quotes.error.log" &

that will background the msmoneyquotes and let Money load right away. I'll make this change going forward.

Thanks for the push!
Nathan

[J Hoban]

Hello Nathan,

On Mac/Linux you start Money Quotes with:

MSMoneyQuotes.exe -b  -v -m -c

On windows I use:

:: MSMonyQuotes.exe -o -a -m -v -b
:: -o      Open Money if not already open.
:: -a      Automatically update quotes every 15 minutes as long as Money is open.
:: -m      Use SymbolMap.csv file to resolve symbols.
:: -v      Verbose output.
:: -b      Batch file mode. Suppress "Press any key..." prompts to allow running unattended from a batch file.
::

 You are include - c Update Currency Exchange Rates, which is taking all of the time.   I only use US Dollars, so currencies are not needed for me.  

On windows running:

                 MSMoneyQuotes.exe -b  -v -m -c        takes 27 seconds.  

                 MSMoneyQuotes.exe -b  -v -m            takes 1 seconds.

Adding the currencies symbols to the SymbolMap.csv will likely speed things up, if I needed currencies. 

[N G]

I only have one other currency selected in Money for updating but msmoneyquotes grabs them all every time. Does anyone remember Dan Gaier saying he knew about this and maybe it would be fixed in a future version? I want to say it was discussed in this group that adding the ticker for each currency isn't the same, that Money doesn't process them the same way.

[Tom Roberts]

I for one would like to be able to select which currencies download and which ones don't.

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