Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Fred Bone]

On 30 June 2014 at 3:42, Richard Lindgren said:

> Fred,
> In my frustrations in trying to make this work, I re-installed Windows 7
> (again) to make sure I didn't mess anything up. - I then downloaded and
> installed GnuCash 2.63 - I then Installed Activeperl 5.16.3.1603. This was
> installed in my Strawberry folder. - I then went into the Perl Package
> Manager and it went through a database sync operation. - I then opened up
> the command prompt and entered "perl -V". That worked ok. - I then
> entered: perl -MFinance::Quote -e"print ""$Finance::Quote::VERSION\n""".
> That worked ok. - I then went in as the Administrator to start the utility
> to Retrieve Online Price Retrieval. That worked ok. - I then opened up up
> GnuCash and went to the Advanced Portfolio to get my download of the
> prices. STILL, no luck. It comes back and says unable to retrieve qoutes
> for these items.

We now know that you have Finance-Quote 1.18, which was the point of the 
::VERSION stuff.

For one selected quote that fails, please report exactly what you have in 
the "Edit Security" dialog box ("Edit" from the Security Editor). Maybe 
someone can spot what you have wrong.