ofx direct connect

Jon Hamkins hamkins at alumni.caltech.edu
Sat Nov 4 13:14:07 EST 2006


> Nope. The problem is: Money and Quicken connect first to the Yodlee  
> server, Yodlee tells the app where to connect next to get the real FI  
> profile, and the profile itself contains the real data server address.
> 
> So far, the only way around this that I know of is to connect once  
> with Quicken or Money and then dig out their ofx.log file. The real  
> address is in the log file.

For those in the same boat:

Quicken doesn't seem to offer free trial downloads of the recent Quicken 
versions.  A trial or full versions may have come with your last 
computer.  Did you save those discs you thought you'd never use or need?  :)

MS Money 2007 offers a free trial download:

http://cdn.simtel.net/pub/msmoney/mny07trl.exe

I'll give it a spin, if I can find a Windows computer somewhere.  I 
assume the log file will be buried somewhere I'll have to search for.

It would sure be nice new feature for gnucash to be able to identify the 
ofx servers, and fid and org tags on its own.  If that is not possible, 
perhaps the users that go through this painful Quicken/Money process to 
get the info could put their efforts to good use by reporting the data 
to a central location-- the gnucash ofx wiki seems like a good place to 
start.

      ----Jon



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