online banking - aqbanking setup problems

[Clayton Ginsburg]

On 1/18/13 12:24 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I am currently trying to setup gnucash(2.4.11 running on MacOS X 10.6)
> for online banking on etrade.com.  I am receiving the error message
> "HTTP-Status: 400 (Unsupported OFX message set BANK)" when I try to
> retrieve transactions.  Any suggestions are much appreciated.  I've
> tried to include all of the steps I've taken.
> [snip]
>
> This may be a problem because AqBanking does not understand investment
> accounts.  The only way to import investments is a direct download of
> OFX or QIF and using the file-based OFX or QIF importers.
>
> Good Luck,
For the benefit of others on the list, I finally resolved the issue by 
specifying the account was an investment account.  After that, 
downloading transactions worked perfectly :)

Thanks for all of the help!