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>I have Microsoft Money 4, v12. I recently had to reformat my hard
>drive so backed everything up to an external drive. I have
>reinstalled Microsft Money from original cd, opened with sample and
>then tried to open back up file from external drive. The software
>opens and works fine, but all my data is missing, its like a new
>installation with no accounts or anything. The back up file is 3mb
>so
>the data is there, what else can I try to get this working properly.
Did you only have the one *.mbf file surviving from your previous
install? Maybe you could search your non-formatted drives for any
*.mbf or *.mny files. I suspect you are too far along after your
format for a file recovery program to recover your *.mbf file from
after the format. You normally would do a File->Restore of a *.mbf
file. In restoring, I would not restore to your "default location",
but instead Browse to your Documents/MyDocuments folder, and choose
a new name.
An empty backup file that is not compressed might be about 3 MB. An
empty compressed backup file would be smaller.
>I have taken care not to overwrite the original, but have had several
>attempts to get this going now so have deleted all the mny and mbf
>files that have been created in my c drive, but still can't get that
>data.
My mistake on the other reply.. You were clear on your version.
I wish I had a better suggestion for you.
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