[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 17, 2019, at 5:58 PM, GB <galaxy-bars at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have two problems, one bigger than the other.  I am running OSX Mojave
> (10.14.3) Dark which was upgraded about half a year ago
> 
> F::Q stopped working for me, it worked last week and a couple days ago.  No
> change to OSX, just all of a sudden got this error:  "There was an unknown
> error retrieving price quotes."  I use Yahoo_Json for all my quotes.
> 
> Any ideas as to why this is all of a sudden a problem?  Is anyone else also
> experiencing problems with yahoo_json quotes?

It means that there was an error in the price retrieval that GnuCash doesn't have enough information about to report more directly. The most usual reason is a commodity (security) with mis-configured retrieval information. Did you edit or add any in the last few days?

If it's a general yahoo-json problem you can check it with gnc-fq-dump. Open Terminal and run
 /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump yahoo_json AAPL

You should get something like
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: AAPL                 <=== required
      date: 02/15/2019           <=== recommended
  currency: USD                  <=== required
      last: 170.42               <=\
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price:                      <=/
  timezone:                      <=== optional

Regards,
John Ralls