Where does GC/AQ Banking store account numbers

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 13, 2015, at 12:17 AM, Lincoln A Baxter <lab at lincolnbaxter.com> wrote:
> 
> And now... answering my own question... (Hopefully this will be helpful
> to someone)
> 
> On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 02:50 -0400, Lincoln A Baxter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have been using the AQBanking functionality to download 
>> transactions
>> quite successfully from my Bank  -- until the Bank issued a new 
>> credit
>> card (new number) as a result of a mass compromise incident.
>> 
>> Now, when I go to Actions -> Online Actions -> Get Transactions ... 
>> it
>> downloads no transactions.
>> 
>> How/where can I tell GC or AQBanking what the new credit card number
>> is?
> 
> In $HOME/.aqbanking/settings/accounts/ there is a set of .conf files.
> I found the .conf file which had the old account number in it, and 
> edited this file replacing the old account number with the new account
> number.  
> 
> I then restarted GC (I'm not sure this was necessary -- I suspect not)
> 
> Then Actions -> Online Actions -> Get Transactions GC asked me to
> identify the account (or create one)... I just double clicked on the
> original account (in GC), and the transaction came in.
> 

It’s safer to use the AQBanking configuration dialog, accessed via Tools>Setup Online Banking.

Regards,
John Ralls