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Conversion of Money Files to QUicken

I am locked out of one of my MS MOney Essentials (2007+) files which no longe recognizes my sign in ID.

I also have QUicken 2006 on another computer.

I see that there is a Money to QUicken data converter available and have a few questions:

1) Can I convert Money Essentials files to QUicken 2006 Deluxe (this is backward in time)?

2) The converter download site has an invalid certificate that expired 4 days ago. Is it possible that Intuit would let that happen? The URL appears valid and McAfee advisor claims it is safe.

3) If I convert this file, will I be able to open it without my Windows Live ID and password, which MS Money had required for online access (and for all access for this particular file)?

TIA Jim

Reply to
kaplan3jiim
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I found this help page on the Quicken support site. It is the page that I used when I converted a client's MS money file to Quicken.

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I get the expired certificate but that is the same program that I used last fall. Read the steps of the support site carefully. You are basically creating reports that are imported into Quicken so the year difference should not be an issue. The only problem that I see with your plan is the Quicken 2006 won't be supported much longer (Spring?) and you will need to upgrade to a newer version if you want to be able to download from your bank.

Quicken does not use the Windows Live ID so not knowing your ID & password are not an issue. You will need to activate access to your bank accounts again so you'll need to know your id, passwords and any security questions your bank account has.

Reply to
Laura

The problem I see is that any means of converting Money data to Quicken data requires you to be able to open your Money file.

There is no straight conversion of the Money data; you either create Money reports and let the Data Converter work on those, or you export from Money to QIF files and import them into Quicken.

Reply to
John Pollard

Good catch. I missed that part of the problem. I do recall that there is an option to log into the MS money file without logging into the Live ID account. Certain features are disabled such as account updates, etc, but I think basic reporting is still available.

If the OP is locked out because he can not remember his Live ID password there is an option to have the password reset. Using Internet Explorer go to this site:

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enter your Live ID and click on the "forgot password" link to reset the password. Another thought is to clear your PC of cookies. I know that I have had problems logging into my LiveID webspace and deleting the cookies has cured the problem.

Reply to
Laura

Thanks for the responses and I will keep them in mind. As it turns out I was able to solve the issue by opening the most recent backup. Something in the current file regarding the login ID had somehow gotten corrupted.

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kaplan3jiim

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