[moneydance] Child of?

[Elana Shenton]

Your information is saved in a .md file on your computer.  Just install
Moneydance and port the file itself over and open it up.  When you move
back, put the changed file back on your machine.

Elana


On 6/28/07, Yehudit Winiarz <ym.design1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone for the explanations. I'm beginning to see how useful this
> tool can be for structuring! Too bad my Laptop seemed to have hit the
> bullet
> (thinking it's a power/battery issue - will get it checked out on the
> weekend.) If I use the program on another computer, do I just export the
> info after and import it into my laptops when it is fixed? How will it
> know
> not to duplicate anything I've already imported, or to override it, since
> it
> is more current info I am importing?
>
> Thanks,
> Yehudit
>
>
> On 6/28/07, Stan <stanf76180-mdnc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/27/2007 at 11:01 PM Stan wrote:
> >
> > >I have our savings account as a parent.  I created a child account
> called
> > >"Emergency Fund" and another child account called "Christmas Fund."
> >
> > Oh, I almost forgot this...
> >
> > I created an account called "Major CC," and one called "Gas CC" and one
> > called "Department Stores" or something like that.  None of these has
> any
> > funds in it or any transactions whatsoever, but all of our credit card
> > accounts are children of whichever is appropriate.
> >
> > What I get from this is something like a tree/folder structure when I
> look
> > at them on the home page.  I just find it easier to find what I'm
> looking
> > for with a little organization applied to them.  Without this structure,
> > they're all just listed alphabetically.
> >
> > As far as lumping the funds goes, the only thing I get out of it is that
> > on
> > the home page, the balance for "Gas CC" shows the total of the balances
> of
> > all gas credit card accounts.  I forgot to mention in my earlier example
> > that the home page shows the combined total for the savings account,
> > although in the register for it, the emergency fund and Christmas fund
> > monies (and transactions) don't show up.
> >
> > It's easy enough to try this out to see what I'm talking about.  Create
> > the
> > parent, then check the box on accounts to become the children.  You can
> > easily uncheck the boxes and go back to a "flat" structure, with no loss
> > of
> > data.
> >
> > Stan
> >
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