My Money 2 Beta install doesn't work

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My Money 2 Beta install doesn't work

Postby ras » Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:38 pm

Today I downloaded the My Money 2 Beta (mymoney-setup-nojre.exe) and, in administrator mode, installed it to my XP Home / SP3 desktop. I then switched to limited user mode and looked for the application, for it failed to create either a clickable desktop icon or a start menu entry. I then went to the \Program Files\MTH\My Money folder where the application was installed and tried to directly execute the mymoney.exe file. The following error message popped up:

"Unable to open file: C:\Program Files\MTH\My Money\mymoney.boot parseConfigFile failed with error 5: Access is denied. Please reinstall the application."

I wasn't any more successful using a java -jar command on the jar file -- my java is rusty and the usual "Class Not Found" messages came up.

What to do? How about making available a non-beta trial that really works?

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Re: My Money 2 Beta install doesn't work

Postby ras » Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:47 pm

Whoever packaged the install doesn't seem familiar with MS Windows. The app was installed as though to run in administrative mode -- not a proper approach for what is clearly a user app. Thus, the desktop icon and start menu entry were attached to the administrator rather than put in All Users, which is where they should have gone. I suspect the security error I got on attempted startup reflects a similar erroneous orientaton toward the administrator.

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Re: My Money 2 Beta install doesn't work

Postby ras » Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:56 pm

I went back into administrative mode and ran the application onetime there. That apparently did the initializations that limited user mode wouldn't allow. After that, I was able to run My Money 2 in limited user mode without further problem.

Hat tip to user ras for solving user ras's queries.

Yuk, yuk.

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Re: My Money 2 Beta install doesn't work

Postby mthadm » Sun Jul 06, 2008 5:28 pm

-ras,

thanks for troubleshooting the issue, we will update the manual,
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