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Q) After I added MSN Bill Pay to online services, Money 2002 stops downloading direct bank statements. Why?
[Relevant to Money2002 (v.10)]
A) Go to Online Services setup and click the Modify Services link for the bank. Click "No, I wish to discontinue using online services for [bank]". Then setup online services for the affected bank again.
Q/A courtesy of Doug Semler.
Q) How come my cash flow forecast refuses to display?
[Relevant to Money2002 (v.10)]
A) Usually one or more scheduled bills/deposits are, for reasons unknown, causing this problem. The offending bill/deposit can be identified by trial and error as follows:
1) make a copy of your Money data file
2) open the copy
3) delete scheduled bills/deposits one-by-one until cash flow happiness returns; the last one deleted is your suspect, though there may be more than one causing the problem
4) re-open your primary file and edit or delete/replace the problem transactionThis has returned cash flow planner to its usual less-than-perfect self for many of us.
Some users have reported that just editing every scheduled transaction memo--not necessarily changing anything, just "touching" them--has restored cash flow.
Microsoft has also admitted this can happen, of course without so much as hinting that a problem in their code could be causing it. See the MSKB item for the odd ways they propose you resolve this issue. MSKB link courtesy of Laurence.
References:
MSKB: Q312814 "damaged" scheduled item
Q) Money Help keeps whining about script errors, unable to load topic, or similar nonsense. Why? What can I do about it?
A) Nobody really knows what causes this. Most people have been able to resolve this issue by going into IE Internet Options (from IE Tools or from the desktop Internet Options or from the Internet Options control panel) and deleting all temporary internet files. Go figure. MSKB link courtesy of Mark.
References:
MSKB: 812755 On-line help breaks for mysterious reasons
Q) My scheduled bill (deposit, transfer, etc.) just morphed from a normal split into a Paycheck. What's up with that?
[Relevant to Money2003 (v.11) and up]
A) Who knows? This is a little present the Money developers left behind. If you Cancel the first time you see this, it might be right the next time you edit the series or a specified occurrence. If not, you will have no choice but to delete the item and recreate it. Maybe this "feature" will be "improved" in the next version?
Derived from an answer provided by Derrick Cole.
It is not clear if this was fixed in M06. For this reason, I've referenced this answer to M06 until a we know for sure that it's been fixed. Since the half life for defects like this in Money seems to be about three or four releases, it's entirely possible it's still in there.
Q) When I go into Tax Estimator, the display is garbled. What can I do about this?
[Relevant to Money2003 (v.11), Money2004 (v.12)]
A) This problem first showed up in M03. When M04 came out with the exact same issue, it was obvious how many of the Money developers actually use the Money Tax Estimator. The workaround is to go to the previous screen then go back to the next screen. This usually resolves the problem.
Q) Why do I get a disk space error installing Money 2002? I have gigabytes of free disk space.
[Relevant to Money2002 (v.10)]
A) If you get a message like "Microsoft Money 2002 cannot be installed. Please make sure you have 4,095Mb free on drive C: and try to install again" when trying to install Money 2002, read the referenced MSKB--the error message is misleading but there is a workaround.
Reference courtesy of Glyn Simpson, Microsoft MVP - Money
References:
MSKB: Q313999 diskspace errors on install of M02
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