Old FM .dat Files Appear at Random?

[WhiteFox]

Mark,

I know this behavior sounds weird, but I am occasionally seeing an older version of a FM file popping up in unexpected places. I've recently upgraded to version 9.5, running on Windows XP Pro. Everything seems to be operating normally. FM is installed in C:\Program Files\Fund Manager\. The data files are stored in the suggested place of \Desktop\Fund Manager\. I have recently migrated everything to a different hard drive and motherboard, BTW.

Today, I installed a small program called "My Cash" for evaluation. I then ran the uninstall progam, which left some My Cash data files in C:\Program Files\My Cash. Amazingly, a file with the FM logo appears in this folder (created just today), called Account.dat. When I open this file in FM, I'm informed that this file is from an earlier version and needs to be converted for use in version 9.5. About a week ago, I noticed the same FM logo file included in an attachment to one of my recently received emails (sorry, I deleted that, thinking it was a fluke). The other part of the attachment (correctly) contained some photos.

I did not proceed with the conversion process, which of course I already did when installing version 9.5 over my earlier version 8 program. Any ideas on what might be going on? Broken registry?

Thanks!
WhiteFox

Ooops!
I just had the bright idea of looking at the file in question on a hex disk viewer. This file "Account.dat" actually belongs to the My Cash program, but is being marked with the FM logo - probably by my file association options in Windows File Manager (explorer). That would also explain the email attachment, which is also a file created in Outlook Express with attachments as a .dat file. What threw me was that FM identified that file as belonging to a previous version of FM. -WF

[Mark]

Hi WhiteFox,

Glad you figured it out, yes FM can set itself to be associated with .DAT files. This doesn't happen as the default, but maybe it got set somehow. You can un-check this if you want in Fund Manager under "Options / General Preferences... / Other". Just un-selecting FM as your association will not assign a new association, so you may need to go set that through Windows.