How can I get sunset version of Money for my Windows 11

Hi Don, thanks for your time.

It's frustrating ! I get your point about it might stop working at some point, but previous PC desktop lasted 12 years, so was hoping with new windows 11 PC I may get another 12 years.

But hey-ho, we have to move on eventually I guess.

Cheers - steve

yeah I tried that and got the same error message, but only after it had got my hopes up and said it was going to convert the .mny file to the latest version !

I've also tried exporting the individual accounts as .qif files and then using the Restore Account option on the new machine.

It was all looking sort of promising, but it appears to have just duplicated all the transactions when loading them, and also didn't load any of the categories, so I'm gonna have to clear down all the accounts in the new version and start again from scratch I recon. :-(

I've finally managed to get 30 years of detailed transactions out to excel using the report function (and that threw a number of errors) and probably just going to have to keep that data in excel for historical analysis.

Been on this now for 9 hours solid and just about ready to throw in the towel.

Well, I can't think of anything that you haven't tried.

I will add that in 2009 it occurred to me that Money Sunset might stop working someday so I've been running Money Sunset and Quicken, side by side, since 2009. Quicken easily imported Money data and has been a perfectly acceptable replacement for Money.

Don

yeah I tried that and got the same error message, but only after it had got my hopes up and said it was going to convert the .mny file to the latest version !

I've also tried exporting the individual accounts as .qif files and then using the Restore Account option on the new machine.

It was all looking sort of promising, but it appears to have just duplicated all the transactions when loading them, and also didn't load any of the categories, so I'm gonna have to clear down all the accounts in the new version and start again from scratch I recon. :-(

I've finally managed to get 30 years of detailed transactions out to excel using the report function (and that threw a number of errors) and probably just going to have to keep that data in excel for historical analysis.

Been on this now for 9 hours solid and just about ready to throw in the towel.

Steve Cop wrote:

Hi, looks like I'm going through the same process as a lot of people here.

I was running Microsoft Money version 14.0.120.1105 on old windows 7 pc and just purchased new win 11 pc.

I have managed to download the USMnydlxSunset version and install it and run it.

I've backup up the money on the old PC and moved file across to new.

The issue is that the sunset version will not restore the file as it says it comes from a different version of money.

Is there any method to either convert the backup file or load the original files across ? (I'm going to assume there will be some sort of schema changfe between versions so probably not as simple as just copying the original .mny files across ?)

Have you tried transferring over and opening the .MNY file instead of the backup (.MBF) file?

Don

Hi, looks like I'm going through the same process as a lot of people here.

I was running Microsoft Money version 14.0.120.1105 on old windows 7 pc and just purchased new win 11 pc.

I have managed to download the USMnydlxSunset version and install it and run it.

I've backup up the money on the old PC and moved file across to new.

The issue is that the sunset version will not restore the file as it says it comes from a different version of money.

Is there any method to either convert the backup file or load the original files across ? (I'm going to assume there will be some sort of schema changfe between versions so probably not as simple as just copying the original .mny files across ?)