How come my cash flow forecast refuses to display?
[Relevant to Money2002 (v.10)] A2): Usually one or more scheduled bills/deposits is, for reasons unknown, causing this problem. The offending bill/deposit can be identified by trial and error as follows: 1) make a copy of your Money data file 2) open the copy 3) delete scheduled bills/deposits one-by-one until cash flow happiness returns; the last one deleted is your suspect, though there may be more than one causing the problem 4) re-open your primary file and edit or delete/replace the problem transaction This has returned cash flow planner to its usual less-than-perfect self for many of us. Some users have reported that just editing every scheduled transaction memo–not necessarily changing anything, just “touching” them–has restored cash flow. Microsoft has also admitted this can happen, of course without so much as hinting that a problem in their code could be causing it. See the MSKB item for the odd ways they propose you resolve this issue. MSKB link courtesy of Laurence.
Other indications of corruption have included sudden radical degradation in performance, transactions that refuse to be edited or marked as reconciled/cleared (usually you’ll get the “operation cannot be performed” message), and application crashes at repeatable places and/or when doing repeatable things with the data. Reports that refuse to display and/or crash the application can be caused by corruption or can be caused by problems with, say, printer or video drivers. Problems with reports should be isolated by recreating your favorite report from the basic report and/or playing around with the customization settings to see if there are some data sets that work and others that cause the problem. Finally, there are many things that are not corruption but are occasionally blamed on corruption. Some examples follow. Reports that don’t show what you want may very well be customized incorrectly. Register views that are not in the order you want may be sorted by something you don’t recogni
