Money 2005 & Activesync 4.0/XDA Exec

[Dave Baumann]

Hi all,

I'm just wondering if anyone else has had any success running Money 2005 on the Exec and getting it to sync with their desktop Money data?

I've been running various versions of Money and more or less each of the XDA's (XDA, XDAII, XDA IIs) over the years but I've just got the Exec and it seems like Money doesn't want to play nice on this one. It strikes me that its an Activesync 4.0 issue as the Money 2005 application works fine in stand alone mode on the Exec, but if you try and sync it with the money files on the desktop PC as soon as Activesync starts up a prograa box pops up and just says "Reading device Databases" - unfortunaly it just hangs there doing that for eternity, unless you disconnect something, in which case Activesync crashes.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced any issues.

Cheers,
Dave

[CJSnet]

I didn't even know you could run Money 2005 on it! I have the PC-side program for it, do you have a link to the PPC version? Then I can play and let you know what I find.

[Dave Baumann]

Here you go. (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/downloads/money.mspx)

That particular version worked fine on the XDA IIs, but something about this new configuration its not liking (at least on my desktop and laptop) and I would suspect that its on the software side.

Thanks.

[adam_beasley]

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[Dave Baumann]

Well, I posted a similar query on an MS Activesync Newsgroup this morning, and someone have just come back with the following:

I've had similar compatibility issues with Money 2005. Apparently some changes to WM5 make it incompatible, but MS isn't addressing the issue. I run a Dell Axim x51v and struggled with the same issue, but on top of that, I'd occasionally get the today screen to just crash. The crashes only started occuring after I installed Money, so I had suspicions that the two were related. My solution was actually simple:

Go to settings: Personal tab: Today icon: Items tab: uncheck Money on the list. Syncing became much more reliable and the today crashes stopped altogether. I don't know if it was a file lock or what...but it worked.

Unfortunatly this still appears to do diddly for me - still hanging at the "Reading device databases".

I'm beginning to get a little narked at MS right now. :evil:

[155]

I've been happily using SBP Finance for a while. It's fully compatible with Activesync 4.0 and Money 2006 :)