Manually edit Database of Price Editor?

[Ian Lewis]

The XML file is your datafile so it's located wherever you saved it. You
will need to do gunzip it before you can open it in a text editor and read
the xml.

2008/2/23, Rolf Endres <endresr at googlemail.com>:
>
> Hi Derek,
>
>
> > hi,
> >
> > "Rolf Endres" <rendres at gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > is it possible to import a CSV file with stock price data into the
> > > database that Price Editor uses? Specifically, I am trying to build
> > > a historical price database of my portfolio, and entering the
> > > individual datapoints by means of the Price Editor is
> > > cumbersome.....
> >
> > I'm afraid that at this time there is no way to import pricedb entries
> > except by hand or the Get Quotes interface.
> >
> > > If so, which file would contain the database, and is it editable
> > > with a text editor or spreadsheet programme?
> >
> > Well, the data file is all XML (albeit gzipped).  So you could
> > TRY to format your quotes in the appropriate XML format and then
> > splice it into the file.  But no, not a spreadsheet.
>
>
> Which file would that be, and where can I locate it? I'd be keen at having
> a go...
>
> thanks,
>
> Rolf
>
>
>
> >
> > > thanks,
> > > Rolf
> >
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> > -derek
> >
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> >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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