Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money

So, for the last week and a half, I’ve been spending about 4 hours of every day helping a customer rebuild his money file. Financial records going back to while I was in high school, horribly corrupted by who knows what kind of gremlins. During this process I’ve spoken quite a bit with Microsoft’s support for Money 2004, and while I was googling for the some information on why, after we exported every single account this guy ever had in Money to QIF files, and then recreate all the accounts in a new Money file and then import every single one of these QIF files… Why were the reports of your net worth that Money generates not counting his house as an asset?

Do you want to know why this was happening? because at some point in the god forsaken exportation and re-importation process, there is a Y-effin’-2-K bug. His house was purchased, and recorded in money as an asset, at some point in the 50′s. When this account was imported again, Money assumed we meant this asset was recorded as 2050. Once we changed that back to 1950, everything was golden.

Anyway, while trying to find an answer to this question, I found a blog post from some guy at microsoft about why MS Money sucks so hard.

It was of mild comfort. At least I know some of the reason for my suffering the last few days. Now I have to call back someone else who’s have the exact same problem.

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