GC 2.2.9 Crash Importing .qfx Files.

[Jeff Kletsky]

On 2/4/2010 8:21 AM, Doc Kinne wrote:
> As far as Quicken is concerned, Cambridge Trust uses "Web Connect" not
> "Direct Connect. Should I be looking at setting up a DirectConnect 
> through
> AqBanking?
>

In my limited experience, if you can get OFX to work, it runs pretty 
smoothly. Unfortunately, that Quicken uses "Web Connect" often means 
that Intuit (or one of its partners) "scrapes" the web pages for the 
data, so that OFX may not be available.

That warning taken in stride, there seems to be some notes on Cambridge 
Trust at http://ofxblog.wordpress.com/?s=cambridge

I have found that getting OFX to work on 2.2.9 on MacOS X 10.5 resulted 
in crashes each time I tried to launch the AQBanking portion of the 
wizard. I have had better luck under Ubuntu. I have not tried on 
Windows. Even on Ubuntu, setup seems a little flaky and not reproducible 
(things like being able to retrieve accounts depending apparently on the 
phase of the moon). The two "tricks" that have helped me for my banks is 
trying to forceSsl3 if the connection did not go through successfully 
without it, as well as finding out that some banks (USAA, in my case) 
require leading zeros on the account numbers.

Well worth the effort though, to just be able to go to a register and 
say "Download transactions" rather than having to log into a site.

As with any program and machine, you need to decide if your passwords 
should be "saved" -- I haven't looked into the security of how GNUCash 
and/or its libraries "save" passwords/PINs, or even for how long they 
are saved, based on my own risk-adverse approach to password security.