> > On 3 Aug 2004 at 15:27, graywolf wrote: > > > Actually, I figure the problem was MS Money. It could not read the .mny files > > off the CD-R, for no known reason. The cheap no-name backup software on the > > other hand had no problem reading its files from the CD-R. Lucky for me because > > I had 3 separate CD-r's with the MS Money files on them, none which MS Money > > could read, and only 1 with the total backup with the no-name software on it. > > Oh that's a very different problem. Don't expect data from different versions > of secondary MS products to be at all compatible between versions, MS pub is > exactly the same. I do however expect to be able to read TIFF, JPG and BMP > files on most non-specific systems for many years to come.
Personally I'd be inclined to suspect that MS Money has problems with files located on read-only file systems; it probably tries to create a lock file.
