I hope you will read and respond to this late reply to your last week's post. I'm working on the PalOMoney Money helper application, and one of the things we had to do is find and fix a second bug (an earlier bug was fixed by Raymond Chen) that caused a
crash when importing OFX files. It looks like you have found yet another bug. If so, we may be able to investigate and fix it. Can I ask a few technical questions?
Your results suggest that deleting entries in the "Preferred Payee Names table" eliminated the crash. Did you mean that, under Account Tools, you selected "Categories and Payees" then clicked on "Preferred payee names" to display the "Set up preferred payee
name list" page? (BTW this is not an actual database table by itself, rather it is a query on the payee (PAY) table, which may be part of the problem.)
How did you get an Excel macro to delete rows in this MS Money list? Users run into this situation where they mistakenly import a ton of data to the wrong account, and could use a quick way to delete rows of data. Please let us know!
Did you save your old file (the one that crashes) and the crash-causing import file? Is there some way you would be willing to try the existing patches to your system to see if this fixes your problem? If so, see "https://www.palomoney.com/wiki/index.php/Money_Sunset_Patch_Utility".
I too am concerned about the bloating caused by Money adding every little transaction as an alias to whatever payee you ultimately select, and perhaps PalOMoney can deal with this issue intelligently. Nevertheless, Money should never crash, and I think we
need to fix these bugs. Thank you.
