Comments on: Free Microsoft Money Download Now Available

By: Bob Williamson

Bob Williamson — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:40:19 +0000

Gordon:

Did you ever get a response to your query? I too have been using Money 2000 Deluxe for many years and wonder if Sunset would accept the 2000 files.

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By: Noel

Noel — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:57:12 +0000

I recently had a problem with MS Money crashing when adding a new transaction… Before starting, make copies of your .mny file in case anything goes wrong.

Open MS Money and immediately select:
File > Repair Money File > Quick File Repair…

If that does not work, then try:

Open MS Money and immediately select:
File > Repair Money File > Standard File Repair…

This creates a new repaired file.

Seems I had to try the repair a few times before I got a working .mny file. A log file eventually reported that I had some corrupted transactions that were deleted and had to be re-entered.

You can also try archiving old transactions if you have a lot of history and then try the above file repair on just the more recent (troublesome) data:

File > Archive…

Good luck.

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:25:40 +0000

I have tried to run the money sunset, but it constantly crashes on my xp. ‘encountered a problem and must close’ every time I try to add my 1st transaction. I set up 5 accounts and can’t use one. Any thoughts? TIA!

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By: faley

faley — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:44:15 +0000

Your bank may have discontinued the use of the ofx format and now uses csv. If so, you’ll need to convert the file from csv to ofx. A converter is offered in one of the above links.

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By: RobL

RobL — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:58:57 +0000

Hi, Ive been using MS Money home and small business 2002 for a small sports club. Just recently got online banking for the club and tried to download the statement, it went in but there didnt seem to be a way of assigning the payment to new invoices. Might be a dumb question but is this feature just to check what you have put in already, i.e. i put the invoices in and pay them and then download the statements to verify or can i download, see whats gone through the bank and assign invoices, Ive tried this in the business purchases section but cant find them through the bank.

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By: Gordon Ray

Gordon Ray — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:19:56 +0000

I am using Money 2000. Works fine. Connects to the bank, etc. Just read this and now I’m rather concerned, of course. Will either the free download or Quicken convert my Money 2000 files?

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By: Piet Mulder

Piet Mulder — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:06:59 +0000

I used MS Money since 1999 in 2001 I graded up to 2001 and is still using it. Problem: I getting a new pc and want to transfer al my data and program to the new pc. I changed my pc in 2006 and away from windows 98 to windows xp professional. The person who did the transferring of the hard drive did had any problems doing so. But know I’m getting Window 7 pro. and is worried that I may loose my data especially MS Money 2001. I can’t find my 2001 disc. Could I install on my old PC MS money 2003. Convert my 2001 data to 2003. Install 2003 0n the PC and transfer data from old PC to new PC. Please help I’m desperate.

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By: Kay Lynn

Kay Lynn — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:31:25 +0000

I’ve been using Microsoft Money for many years and was bummed when they sunset the product.

Since I never used the removed features, this is a wonderful solution. Thanks for sharing!

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By: Patrick J.

Patrick J. — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:36:36 +0000

I’ve been using MS Money Sunset edition for a few months now. I enjoy it. I was never up to date on the latest version of MS Money before and so I never ‘enjoyed’ the benefit of automatic statement downloads, so in reality, to me it feels like a free upgrade to the latest version. I still log on to my bank accounts and download my statements manually and then head back to MS Money to categorize my spending and tracking my goals and budget.
In summary, MS Money Sunset is the latest and last edition of MS Money, just without your automatic online syncing.
It keeps me happy, at least for a few more years I can prolong the search for something different!

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By: Nepa

Nepa — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:28:15 +0000

Good news that Money is back in the fold, and free at that. I had grown so used to Money that the “alternatives” proved in-adequate. The lack of online services is not enough to dissuade me from installing the Sunset version next year since I have already “discovered” iCreateOFX Basic from http://icreateofx.co.uk/Convert-CSV-to-OFX to convert my bank and creditcard CSV files to OFX.
VIVA Microsoft! (I never thought I’d say that!)

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By: Maggie

Maggie — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:13:18 +0000

I agree with Dina – Moneydance is excellent, I’ve been using it for two and a half years now and it is so good. Deals efficiently with funds and investments, upgrades are free and there’s good support. Worth far more than the price.

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By: Peter Isaksen

Peter Isaksen — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:52:04 +0000

I use gnucash, it takes a while to figure out, but it is worth the time – and it will be free forever.

It does all my accounting

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By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:51:02 +0000

@elitie: referring to your question about stock trade performance; you could try building your own personal stock portfolios for free on Morningstar.com. Don’t know if this will give you what you are looking for, but the stock/mutual fund information that is available from them for free is pretty impressive and updated daily.

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By: pdxdayhiker

pdxdayhiker — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:19:39 +0000

I’ve been using Microsoft money for years. I am fully a fan. I don’t use any of the canceled features, so I’m happy.

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By: Ozzie from EGYPT

Ozzie from EGYPT — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:51:00 +0000

@ Wojo I am also having trouble downloading either versions……….

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By: elitie

elitie — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:34:03 +0000

does anyone know of any free program or spreadsheets that evaluate stock trades performances? particularly i’m looking for something that i can only input the individual trades and maybe the mark-to-market prices and it’d tell me how my portfolio has performed. nothing too complicated but i can’t seem to find anything like that. i do trades about once or twice a month and i’m finding myself spending a lot of time calculating how much money i’ve put in and how much i’ve earned.

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By: Wojo

Wojo — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:26:53 +0000

Interesting move, but I guess it’s the least they could do after abandoning the software. It’s kind of sad, since I always enjoyed the friendly competition between Intuit and Microsoft.

By the way, I’ve had trouble installing both “free” versions with errors every time. I’m curious if I’m not the only one…

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By: Dina

Dina — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:42:25 +0000

I got annoyed with Quicken’s forced upgrades — after being with Quicken since the 90s, I finally dropped them. I love the online features of Quicken, but wasn’t willing to upgrade.

I switched to MoneyDance, which runs on all platforms (including iPhones and Linux). I still haven’t paid for it — the trial version is good for 100 manually entered transactions, with the imported or downloaded ones not counting towards the 100. I had some issues with the import of my Quicken files, but nothing that was more than mild annoyance.

It’s not free, but at $40 with a promise of no forced upgrades plus the multiplatform support, it was (or will be, once I hit the 100 free transactions) limit.

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By: Edward Bear

Edward Bear — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:41:13 +0000

I’ve stayed with Quicken98 for years, moving the registration info from machine to machine. This looks worth checking out, since Microsoft has finally priced *something* at about what their products are usually worth.

OTOH, what I’d really love to see is a *portable* (as in the portableapps.com) money/checkbook management program.

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