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Adriana,

The new Watch List lacks all the functionality that made the old Portfolio Manager worth using.  It's sad to say but every modification of the PM over the last five years has removed functionality and limited capability.  The new version might be of value to someone new to, or considering, investing but not to anyone who has been a long term investor {I was a MSN beta tester in 1995 and have used PM since 1997 to track my investments}.

If PM will not be resurrected is there any way we could get a csv file of all of our stored transactions?

Happy Holidays!

PS. Would you be willing/able to provide the code/db structure for the old PM so individuals could run it themselves for their personal investments?

Adriana, The Retry Import does not work.  The kb3004532 and all of its steps do not work.  Clearing browser, restarting, removing all add-ons, signing in and going to New Watchlist to be sure there is only on empty Watchlist -- none of this works.

Regarding the 250 limit -- I am sure I had more than 250 stocks listed in my old protfolio because it was almost 15 years of data which I hate to lose.  Now I can not even get into my Old portfolio to delete stocks because I can't open the Old Portfolio. I have the old link but when I go to it I get a warning box that says there is problem. Clicking on cancel in that box takes me to the New Watchlist with my one empty Watchlist.

Using the troubleshooting suggestions that are avasilable from the link on the new Watchlist does not work either.

I know you said that MSN is working on a solution but housands of us with the problem are losing faith and the Dec 22 deadine for improt is just days away.

I am using MS Vista with IE 9.0

At the bottom of kb3004532 I clicked NO and went to chat support. They said they could not help with this issue. They gave me phone  800 386 5550  who would not help because I do not have a Paid membership with MSN.   This is a free portfolio service and MSN decided to change it so I believe they should be willing to help the many thousands of people who have used the Portfolio for many years with very important data for all of us.

HELP

Just discovered this problem after not visiting my portfolio for a few days.

I go to  http://moneycentral.msn.com/stock_portfolio where I've tracked my investments for years, and now get a pop-up with the message "There was a problem with the online service. Click OK to refresh and see the last known data." Clicking OK just brings the same pop-up up again and again and I am unable to view my portfolio or use any of the options to export data.

Going to the recommended http://www.msn.com/en-us/money page only gets me to an empty Watchlist with no data in it. Deleting this empty watchlist and retrying the import just creates a new, also empty, watchlist.

I appear to be unable to either access the old portfolio or perform an import to the new site. If this is not fixed in a few days, I will lose years of data like everyone else here and will certainly leave msn for good.

Adriana - Tell the brilliant Development Team that Price, Change, % Change, Day Gain, Total Gain, Total % Return all need to be on one page, not scattered in several different places. Very hard to use the Watchlist as it is. Have them look at Portfolio Manager to see what a useful site would be!

Check out the Google finance portfolio manager if you havent already.  I think better than Morningstar and with no transaction limits.  Howerver, you can only view one portfolio at a time.