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[duitsmaj]

I'm currently a Microsoft Money user who stores my inventory in Money. With Microsoft abandoning Money, I'm looking for a replacement solution. Quicken Home Inventory won't even run on WIndows 7-64bit as I discovered, plus Quicken has a terrible track record for it according to posts on the Internet.

I like CYA, but it's missing a HUGE feature that other products like HomeManage 2009 have:
- The ability to attach files that aren't images. I'd say about 20% of my invoices, notes, etc are now email's these days. It seems silly that I should have to waste paper to print them out and then turn around and scan them in again just so I can add them to CYA. This would also allow attaching PDF's, which HomeMange 2009 also does, but HomeMange 2009 already considers PDF's as images.

Attachments are a show stopper preventing me from purchasing CYA and I imagine many others. Include the ability to have other attachements besides images and I would purchase CYA.

Another nice feature if you want to entice disgruntled Money users from other products would be to add an import for Money inventory (as Money doesn't have an export feature for the inventory, just the banking side).

Also, when you first start CYA up, how come you decided not to have the listing child window come up as maximized? As a programmer myself I know this is VERY simple for windows. I see that I'm not the only one with this comment also. You might want to consider changing it for the next release.

[SysAdmin]

I'm currently a Microsoft Money user who stores my inventory in Money. With Microsoft abandoning Money, I'm looking for a replacement solution. Quicken Home Inventory won't even run on WIndows 7-64bit as I discovered, plus Quicken has a terrible track record for it according to posts on the Internet.

Agreed

I like CYA, but it's missing a HUGE feature that other products like HomeManage 2009 have: - The ability to attach files that aren't images. I'd say about 20% of my invoices, notes, etc are now email's these days. It seems silly that I should have to waste paper to print them out and then turn around and scan them in again just so I can add them to CYA.

Your point is well taken here and a wonderful suggestion. This has been forwarded to the technical group. Hopefully they will find a workable solution.

This would also allow attaching PDF's, which HomeMange 2009 also does, but HomeMange 2009 already considers PDF's as images.

PDF files tend to pose a bit of a problem. Each PDF document can, and usually does contain multiple pages. One single document could potentially contain an image (or several for that matter) for every item in the catalog. CYA could not distinguish between them or single them out to attach to an item. We choose not leave any doubt or provide gray areas where our users can end up with problems. The PDF document has its place but we don't feel it should be used to contain the images for your personal assets in the catalog.

Another nice feature if you want to entice disgruntled Money users from other products would be to add an import for Money inventory (as Money doesn't have an export feature for the inventory, just the banking side).

The fact an "Export" feature does not exist does present certain obstacles when it comes to retrieving data from the files. Microsoft Money uses a proprietary file structure which is not publicly available.

Also, when you first start CYA up, how come you decided not to have the listing child window come up as maximized? As a programmer myself I know this is VERY simple for windows. I see that I'm not the only one with this comment also. You might want to consider changing it for the next release.

This has been address and corrected for the next update.

Thank you for taking the time to post your comments and suggestions regarding Computerize Your Assets. This is one channel we use in our continued effort to add features and usefulness to CYA.