Microsoft KB Archive/140235

Money 4: Investments Missing from Investment Portfolio

PSS ID Number: Q140235 Article last modified on 09-12-1997

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= SYMPTOMS =

The name of an investment fails to appear in the Investment Portfolio in Money; however, when you try to create a new investment with the same name as one that is missing, you receive the following error message:

The name is already being used for an existing investment. Please enter a different name.

= CAUSE =

This problem may occur only when all of the following conditions are true:

  An investment has been owned in the past, but is later sold.   An investment is deleted from the Investment Portfolio. NOTE: You can delete an investment only when zero shares of that investment are owned. -and-   That same investment is renamed to the name of another existing investment of the same type. For example, stock One is renamed to stock Two. 

NOTE: The investment missing from the Investment Portfolio may not be the same investment that was renamed.

= RESOLUTION =

To resolve this problem, upgrade to Money 5.0 for Windows 95 or use either of the following methods.

Method 1
The easiest resolution to this problem is to force Money for Windows 95 to rebuild its indexes. To do this, use the following steps:

  On the File menu, click Archive. In the text box on the Archive dialog box, type in today’s date and click OK.   In the File Name box, type in a file name for a backup file or accept the default. NOTE: This creates a backup copy of your existing file.   Click OK.   For each subsequent dialog box, click the Don’t Remove Any Transactions option, and then click OK. </li>  When Money asks you if you would you like to archive all of your price histories before <today’s date>, click No. </li></ol>

Your file should now be repaired.

-or-

Method 2
Export all the accounts, and import them to a new file. For additional information on how to do this, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q141268 TITLE : Handling Error Messages or Problems Related to Money Files

= MORE INFORMATION =

After an investment has been deleted from the Investment Portfolio, you can rename the investment only by accessing the Details for that investment from outside the Investment Portfolio. To access the Investment Details screen, right-click either of the following, and then click Details:

  A transaction for the investment in an account register -or- </li>  A line for the investment in a report. </li></ul>

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Additional reference words: w_money 4.00 4.00a 95 snake

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