[moneydance] Crash and Burn

[Mr. Mark Mecum]

I have just begun using MD in earnest, and becoming quite upset.  My  
first attempt to bring in my data resulted in a complete mess.  After  
spending a month or so on and off I decided I had learned enough of  
some of the limitations to start over and hopefully get better results.

I began a new file with minimal category setup.  Changed main checking  
to my Checking account and imported all of my data from my bank site  
in QIF.  After spending about 12 hours categorizing and recording  
transactions (with a couple of saves along the way) MD hung and after  
a couple of hours had to be forced quit.

Now it claims none of the file is readable, as well as the backup  
file, and goes back and starts up with the original attempt file.

I am very frustrated and at a loss as how to continue, or if for all  
of it's promise if MD is worth spending all of the hours to convert  
to.  With minimal documentation and numerous bugs I can see in the  
overall display and operation, I think I am on the verge of being  
forced back to Quicken for the Mac  (not great at doing all of what I  
want, but it has never crashed and lost ALL of my data).

Does anyone know a way to recover the data file.

Thanks.