ERROR: 'There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes.'

[Deane Yamane]

Stiil 'NO JOY'. I tried every stock with checkmark  in my Tools>Security Editor screen. All passed. ... Any other ideas? 

On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, January 12, 2012 4:20 pm, Deane Yamane wrote:
>> Derek,
>> 
>> I ran gnc-fq-dump. All the sources I need (Yahoo & ?Fidelity) are on it. I
>> even tried putting 'yahoo' as a parameter. The same exact list is shown.
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Not supplying the correct parameters (source and symbol):
> 
> gnc-fq-dump yahoo CSCO
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: CSCO                 <=== required
>      date: 01/12/2012           <=== required
>  currency: USD                  <=== required
>      last: 19.15                <=\
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>     price: 19.15                <=/
>  timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> 
> -derek
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 12, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> 
>>> Deane,
>>> 
>>> Deane Yamane <deane.yamane at gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> MAC OSX V10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). IT USED TO WORK UNTIL the End  of
>>>> December. ... Oh David T. it's solid. And restaring the Mac fails.
>>> 
>>> Is it possible that the quote source changed their website such that
>>> F::Q can't scrape it anymore?  This seems to happen more often than you
>>> would think.
>>> 
>>> Try running gnc-fq-dump to see if it's providing valid data?
>>> 
>>> -derek
>>> 
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>>> -derek
>>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
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