[GNC] Old Line Bank

[Thomas Moffett]

Thanks David. I was hoping to make the first option work but apparently it
will not. I will keep working on the second option.

Tom

sent from my Note 5

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 6:30 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Tom,
>
> There are two types of approach for you to consider and either will not
> require Quicken once you have it working.
>
> 1.  GnuCash does have a feature similar to the Quicken One Step Update
> through the Online Actions menu, but it is tricky to set up and you need to
> set up credentials which are easiest to obtain by reading the Logs from
> previous Quicken activity.   Some of us make this work and others give up
> and switch  to:
>
> 2.  Your bank probably allows you to download transaction histories in
> several different formats from your Internet online banking page, possibly
> including CSV, QIF, and OFX.  Sometimes they use different names.  Of the
> three, the OFX gives the best experience when importing into GnuCash.  The
> bank may call the OFX format the Quicken format.  With this method you
> download the data file, save it somewhere in a temporary folder, then
> import it into GnuCash.
>
> Since I have not made number 1 work for me, I cannot help you try that.
>
> David Carlson
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:05 PM Kenneth Schneider <
> kschneider at bout-tyme.net> wrote:
>
>> Download you transactions from the bank in CSV format for import directly
>> to GNUcash. I’ve found this works very well. You will need to go through
>> the process of bayeshen (?) matching but with time it works. There is going
>> to be a learning curve but it’s not that steep.
>>
>> Ken Schneider
>>
>> > On Feb 28, 2019, at 5:37 PM, Thomas Moffett <tlmoffettii at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm not sure I follow you. The point of switching to gnucash is so that
>> I
>> > no longer need to download into Quicken because they're cutting off my
>> > online access unless I upgrade.
>> >
>> > It sounds like you're suggesting that I download into Quicken and then
>> > import from Quicken into gnucash. Or am I completely misunderstanding
>> your
>> > suggestion?
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> > sent from my Note 5
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 5:20 PM <stdenis0 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I would use the the import function of gnu cash after downloading the
>> >> quicken information from your bank website using your username and
>> >> password. I use this method for all my online banking services that
>> are not
>> >> gnucash friendly.
>> >>
>> >> Joseph St Denis
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 4:29 PM -0500, "Tom Moffett" <
>> >> tlmoffettii at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Has anyone had success connecting to Old Line Bank?  It is listed in
>> the
>> >>> database, but when I setup a user and attempt to retrieve a list of
>> accounts
>> >>> I get an error message that I have entered and incorrect username or
>> >>> password.  I questioned the bank's tech support folks and they had
>> never
>> >>> heard of GnuCash.  They said they support Quicken (which I have been
>> using
>> >>> successfully).  If I can't connect to this bank GnuCash won't work
>> for me at
>> >>> all.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Tom Moffett
>> >>>
>> >>> I hope to become the man my dog thinks I am.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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