Online Quote Updates stopped working

[David T.]

Hi Matthew,

The ONLY way you can have GnuCash automatically update your quotes on startup is to write a wraparound script that does this. GnuCash does not have a “update price database on startup” option, and never has. Perhaps in the course of your new setup, you were updating the prices on a regular basis, which masked the fact that GnuCash was NOT updating on startup, as you thought.

For what it’s worth, you can create a two-line shell script to update prices and then load GnuCash:

/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --add-price-quotes /path/to/your/accounts.gnucash
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash &

Change “/path/to/your/accounts.gnucash” to refer to your own file, of course. And then, make the file executable, and you can run this instead of double-clicking GnuCash.app
It’s a little slower, since you invoke GnuCash twice (once to update the prices, the second to reload your file), but it works.

HTH,
David

> On Mar 21, 2017, at 1:08 PM, Mathew Paret <mathewparet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am having a weird issue with GnuCash. I have added my Mutual Fund to GnuCash a few weeks back and the automatic quote update was working fine until a few days back. Now the quotes are not updated automatically at startup. When open GnuCash and go to Tools > Price Editor and click on Get Quotes then it fetches the latest quote from the internet and updates properly. So that means the source and my configuration for the Mutual Fund is correct. Only thing is it doesn’t automatically update when I start GnuCash.
> 
> When I start GnuCash it still shows Checking Finance::Quote… so it seems like it is running, but not updating somehow.
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> Is there anyway to debug it?
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> I am using Mac OS. I am using the below version: 2.6.15 built from rev 1ef17e6+ on 2016-12-17
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