ofx direct connect

[David Reiser]

On Nov 4, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jon Hamkins wrote:

> Jon Hamkins wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Here's a followup on using MS Money to determine the URL of an ofx  
> server.
>
> I ran the trial of MS Money, connected to Bank of America (California)
> and was able to download my transactions into Money.  Extensive
> searching revealed no log file, however.  There was no file by the  
> name
> of ofx.log.  I also looked at all the files with creation dates of
> today, and with "ofx," "qfx," or "America" anywhere in the file, and I
> still came up empty.  Does anyone have experience with where logging
> information may be stored by Money?  Maybe MS Money doesn't have a  
> log file?
>
>       ----Jon

see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911941/ for instructions on  
telling Money to create a log.
Dave

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David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net