ofx direct connect

[David Reiser]

On Nov 4, 2006, at 7:08 PM, David Reiser wrote:

>
> 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
>
Bad news with respect to MSMoney ofx logs. Once set up (and it takes  
a registry modifier every time you  open MSMoney >2006, and it takes  
the 5/16/2006 version of the modifier for the Money 2007 trial  
version...) you only get the ofx data stream, not any address info. I  
guess for MSMoney, one needs to run something like ethereal and mess  
with those logs. Not for the faint of heart.

I got a free version of Quicken Basic last January for buying  
TurboTax from Staples. Gotta file taxes, might as well get something  
for it.

There is one advantage to the Money route to logs -- they're kind of  
atomic (one connection, two logs). The Quicken log is a continuous  
log internal to the program.

Dave
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David Reiser
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