[GNC] Get Quote is Not Working?

[David Carlson]

Not quite... If you have a sacrificial computer such as a Virtualbox
machine, try release 3.2 on it first, along with a test copy of your data
file.  Then, if you do not like the results you have not corrupted your
main machine.

Before installing 3.2 on a Windows machine, I would suggest making a backup
of all the configuration files including the F:Q related stuff if you use
it before migrating.  Once a computer has had GnuCash 3.2 installed on it
it is changed as well as any data file that has been opened by it.  Then to
revert you would need to completely remove release 3.2 using the Windows
uninstaller (in my conservative opinion) and install release 2.6.21 to be
able to read files that release 3.2 touched.

On a another side note, I use a free third party program to track my
portfolios in nearly real-time.  If you are interested, Google 'Takestock2'
for more info.


David C

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 3:16 PM, samsurd2 <samsurd2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm finding myself going down a similar rabbit hole. After editing my funds
> (38 in all) to reflect yahoo_json as had been suggested elsewhere, I still
> couldn't get any quotes. I removed Strawberry Perl using both Windows
> Control Panel and File Explorer and then, for good measure, did a Registry
> scrub using a utility I've used successfully for years. I then reinstalled
> Strawberry Perl via the "Install Online Price Retrieval" utility which in
> turn installed F::Q 1.47 and tried once more to get quotes. Again, no
> success. This morning, I updated all items manually.
>
> Since I've read that GNC 3.2 has the ability to import quotes from a CSV
> file, I guess I'll try that now. I've been reluctant to install any 3.x
> version because of the bugs that a new major version of any program
> exhibits
> even though I know that the Gnucash developers do a good job of sorting out
> such things. At worst, I can always go back to the 2.6.16 version for which
> everything I use (except F::Q) works fine.
>
> Megagrumpy wrote
> > I am using GnuCash 2.6.18 and I am not sure what version of F:Q I was
> > using
> > but I reinstalled it a couple of days ago to ensure it was the latest
> > version. Still not getting any quotes at all. Have updated manually but
> at
> > more than 50 stocks that is quite arduous. It appears to me that the
> > suppliers of quotes are getting a bit more savvy that there is a
> potential
> > income stream that they could use. I already have on line accounts (Bank,
> > Broker, Stockopedia and Motley Fool) where I pay and where I can get
> > quotes
> > but I do not suppose there is anyway of linking to those accounts?
> >
> > Is there a possibility of importing quotes from an external file? I could
> > download my share data into Excel say, run a macro to strip out the date,
> > Share ID and quote and then import this into GC?
> >
> >
> >
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