In microsoft.public.uk.money, nhill wrote:
>I have Money 95 which has been working quite satisfactorily on a desktop
>(running XP), but now wish to get Money 95 loaded onto a laptop (running
>Vista Premium).
>
>No problem, the disk with the Money 95 programme loaded then searched and
>connected to download the update onto the laptop, so now all that was needed
>is to load up the backup file (loaded onto a pendrive) to get all of my
>details - bank account transactions for the last three years.
>
>On opening the backup file on the laptop the dialog box asks to confirm the
>file path and name, which is called (by default)
>
>\My Money.mny
>
> then to click on Restore to move on. Up comes a dialog box with the
>message:
>
>"The filename is invalid. Please use a valid file name." Clicking on the
>OK button gets me back to the previous dialog box with the only other option
>is to cancel.
>
>I do not think that this is a Vista problem as I have another laptop as well
>which runs XP and the same thing happens.
>
>I have also tried solving this by saving the Backup file onto the hard drive
>on the laptop and opening it from there, but no luck.
>
>Any suggestions gratefully received.
I suggest that you not restore to the default of "\My Money.mny".
Unless you RunAsAdministrator, that would be a place you could not
normally write to. Instead, tell Money to restore to your Documents
folder.
If that does not do it, try using a filename without a space, such
as "nhill.mny".
If still no joy, right-click the Money launch icon, and try
RunAsAdministrator. Then restore, etc. If that fixes things, you can
either continue to do that, or work things thru so that you don't
have to do it.
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