If you want to skip the manual steps of saving the file and changing the file extension, you will have to do a few tweaks to make the computer open the. After these tweaks the download will go directly from your browser into Microsoft Money. First you have to make the computer understand the. You need to add a few registry entries. Following the manual edits in the comments from James Pelham Burn worked.
If you log in as an administrator account only to install software and you log in as a regular account for routine use, make sure you do the registry edits in both accounts. Delete the NoOpenWith entry. Please choose another program. Now download a transaction file in Quicken Web Connect format and save it somewhere. Right click on it and select Open With. Check the box to always open this type of file with this program.
It takes some work up front but after you are all done, you can just download transactions from the websites of your banks and brokers in the Quicken Web Connect format. The download will go directly into Microsoft Money. If you are paying an advisor a percentage of your assets, you are paying x too much.
Learn how to find an independent advisor, pay for advice, and only the advice. Find Advice-Only. Has anyone had success with something like that? Perhaps it will work if I tweak the QIF format? I did not. I have Quicken Premier for Windows and was able to transfer Quicken data only after following the registry edits that Harry lists above. I had to replace the hard drive on my laptop. Try running the install as administrator. Right click the executable to do that.
Also, you may need to run it in compatibility mode, i. Considering the age of Money, that might be XP. Thanks so much for your help, and for your prompt response! Everything looks good, however when I double click on an qfx file nothing happens. I changed the extension of the file to ofx and it imports correctly. Any ideas what I am doing work?
I used to use Money all the time and then switched to Quicken when they discontinued it. I saw your article and have been looking to find something other than quicken. Can I import my current quicken file into the Money Sunset file? I doubt it. While Money was frozen Quicken moved forward. That said, because Money is a free download, nothing stops you from trying to import a copy of your current Quicken file. Super easy fix. I downloaded the file as quicken.
Using the Money sunset version on Win7. Works fine with. OFX from a bank that still provides them. However, Wells Fargo only does.
Thanks for the reply and tip! I did download a. I imagine quicken would import the Wells files, since they are a pretty large institution and if it were a bug it would be quickly noticed. Crazy that quicken even allows files without delimiters- must be a ton of extra coding to support that….
Since you have to open the file manually anyway, just insert CRLFs in the appropriate locations, and save? They are also missing between every element in the data itself, too, not just the header. Seems like some code will be in order. A rainy-day python project.
If only quicken weren't so awful. MS Money was and still is superior in so many ways…. Did you try opening it in Word? You could then copy it from Word back into a new text file. I have updated a utility program in Python that fixes various QFX formatting issues including the WF ones but leave well formatted extracts alone. Thanks SiGNV! American Express recently updated their website and Money is now telling me the file is invalid or contains corrupt data. I tried using Quicken, but absolutely hated it and would like to continue using Money.
Does anyone have any work-arounds to importing this new qfx format? There are several steps you have to follow to install the utility but once complete, double clicking on e. Hey James. I'm running MS Money Plus yes, still using it - and wish it hadn't gone away. BofA had one business line where they still offered the Money download OFX file option but that goes away Jun 9th this year.
Also - using Windows XP. I can successfully import the QFX version into Money but only using the manual file import. Would like to automate the process. I observed only one or two changes but not everything in the above. You might try launching regedit as Administator. If your windows system folder is named something else, find regedit there.
Consider creating a restore point in case you want to undo regedit changes. Administrator" not an option; apparently the primary user me has admin rights. I'm using rstrui. After running your script the above file , I can see new entries for the file type ". See below:. Windows Registry Editor Version 5. QFX files. Here's exactly what I did:. REG" without the quotes. If you do, this worked.
Click "yes". After running your "script", my registry entry is note the incorrect entry in the Data field :. I manually made the other changes using RegEdit, including correcting the problem noted in 'A' above - now in the process of testing and initial results are encouraging on both machines.
I have been following this thread because I have also not been able to get your script to make the registry changes. After I run the script, I see the expected Keys but the values are not added. From what I know which isn't much your script is obeying all the rules but it just doesn't work. Moreover, when I add the values using regedit.
As expected, focus shifts to MSMoney but nothing is imported. From a novice, but noticed you are selecting ". If I understand the script correctly, we're solving for an auto-download of the ". Am I missing something? As far as I can see the reg file has the wrong type of "quotes". Regedit doesn't like "funny" quotes.
If you swap them all out it works as expected. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums.
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