I thought Money files were supposed to be upward compatible. How come Money[new] crashes when upgrading my Money[old] data file?
[Relevant to Money2003 (v.11) and up] A) Most users find the file upgrade process painless. Beginning with M03, a significant number of users don’t. For these users, a range of outcomes from Money just crashing to misleading error messages about the file being read-only to missing data in the upgrade file result instead. The exact reasons for this are unclear, but it would appear that the upgrade code has become much less tolerant to “damaged” files. (Here a “damaged” file means a file that has somehow become inconsistent with itself or not conforming to the “normal” structure. Here “somehow” generally seems to be by Money itself, though things like End Task when the CPU shows 100% use by Money and the application is reported as not responding “just because” Money is slow and non-responsive may also be factors.) The workarounds identified include: – Many users have found success by running the msmoney -s repair technique on the original data file from the original version then upgradin
