Getting prices and quotes:

[John Ralls]

On Sep 12, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Andy Lavarre <alavarre at gmail.com> wrote:

> Getting prices and quotes:
> 
> I am on GnuCash 2.6.3 under Windows 7
> 
> I installed it only a few days ago.
> 
> The *Edit Exchange Rates > Fetch Rates *button is greyed out.
> 
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows
> 
> says
> 
> 
>          GnuCash 2.5 and more recent
> 
> Everything is done for you by running the "Install Online Price 
> Retrieval" command. You can find this in the Windows start menu under 
> the GnuCash group.
> 
> There is a GnuCash group, but it is empty except for shortcuts to the 
> account files (xxx.gnucash).
> 
> I also tried the v2.5 and under solution (installing ActiveState perl) 
> but Install *Online Price Retrieval* didn't appear there either.
> 
> Ideas?

Andy,

Open up Windows Exploder and navigate to c:/Program Files (X86)/Gnucash/bin and look for it there. Win7 messed with the start menu in a way that sometimes confuses the FOSS installer we use.

Regards,
John Ralls