Saturday, January 21, 2006

Poor Error Messages in Software

Yep, this really gets me.  I was helping a friend convert from Quicken to Microsoft Money.  He was trying to convert the files over, but it kept saying that it couldn't convert the file.  No reason why, just couldn't.  It should have worked.  Quicken 2005 -> Money 2006.  I finally figured out it was because the Quicken file had a password we'd forgotten about.  Actually, I figured the Money program would have said "Enter Quicken Password" or something, or at the very least, "Cannot Convert File because it has a password."  These kind of unhelpful error messages are common in software (some as cryptic as Error 514).  This really Grinds My Gears.
Ads by AdGenta.com

0 comments: