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How to do things in Money: Data/File Management

Q) What is this .LRD file with the same name as my Money data file? Should I worry about it?

A) It's a record-locking file used for internal purposes by the database engine Money uses. It opens when you open a Money file and disappears when you close it normally. You may see one left around if Money "abnormally ends" or ABENDs. (That's IBM talk for "crashes.") It means nothing to the user. You can safely ignore it.

It will also be there when Money Express is open in the background.

If you sign-in to Money with "Use Money's online features that require .NET Passport," then 2 or 3 (depending upon version) Money background processes are spawned. These background processes, mis.exe, misuser.exe (Money 2003-4 only) and mnyschdl.exe, are spawned and continue to run even after closing your Money file and exiting Money itself (msmoney.exe), whether or not Money Express is enabled. If you have enabled Background Banking as well, one or more of these background processes will be periodically locking your primary Money file. The list changes slightly for M05, but the basic issue is still the same: depending on what you enable in Money, your Money data file may still be in use, and the .LRD file still relevant, when you are not actually using Money.

Additional information about situations that will create the lock file borrowed from an answer by Brent Neville who has also provided updates.

Please see this disclaimer if you are using Money 2005 or this comment if you are using Money 2006.

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