Ms money backup
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brucine Posted messages 24389 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention -
brucine Posted messages 24389 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention -
Hello
I recently changed computers and since I have been used to managing my accounts with MS Money (2005) for a long time, I transferred it from the old one (on Windows 10) to the new PC (also on Windows 10).
As far as general functioning is concerned, everything is going well.
My problem is with the backups: whether on a hard drive or a USB stick, Money creates backups in a format that it cannot reopen afterwards.
When I try to reopen it, it offers to open them with Windows Media Player, which of course is unable to read this format. In case of problems, it would be impossible for me to recover my backups.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Thank you in advance.
First of all, I have to thank you for this advice, because now, Money can read the files it saves.
I still have one last small problem, which is that I can no longer save directly to a USB stick. Money keeps telling me that the stick is full. I have tried several sticks, I have tried formatting before saving, nothing works. However, since the backup goes smoothly to the hard drive, I can copy and paste it onto the stick, and there, it works fine.
Maybe you also have a solution for this, although I could settle for this kind of operation.
Thank you in advance.
I won't be of much help; I use Money 2001 (the functionality is the same), but I'm quite resistant to proprietary backup formats for the reason you mentioned: I back up the working mny file like all my other data onto an external drive through a scheduled daily task, and once a year (more to reduce the critical size of the file than for backup) I perform a purge-archiving which I also back up in the same way.
Both to facilitate this backup scheduling and to avoid what would be the corruption of the only system partition, I created an additional one that hosts all the data, including those.