[GNC] Currencies not being converted

[John Ralls]

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If “Get Quote” returns an error it means that either you don’t have online quote retrieval setup or that there’s a problem with it. Please study https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/currency_howto1.html <https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/currency_howto1.html> for your options in getting current exchange rates.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jan 9, 2019, at 7:41 AM, Tom Delarge <alanfiske at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I did that and it worked, thank you very much. 
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> But...the prices that GNUcash gives don't reflect the real price that I see on google.
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> On the chart of accounts screen in GC I have it show me New Taiwan Dollars (for many accounts are in that currency) and have a columb showing me the USD balance. But it is using a very incorrect conversion rate and I'm not sure why it won't update. I hit "get quote" and it just tells me there is an error. 
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> Is there no way way I can keep my accounting data and have the program itself properly update the prices? 
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> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:29 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
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> > On Jan 2, 2019, at 9:43 AM, salmichaels <foma.iksov at gmail.com <mailto:foma.iksov at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > I have just returned from overseas with laptop and now gnucash does not
> > convert currencies. I have some accounts in a foreign currency, others in
> > USD. In making reports or having a Total (USD) column, GC doesn't convert
> > the accts in foreign currency to USD, but just lists the amounts as if they
> > are US dollars. If I change the report currency to the foreign currency, it
> > handles it fine; it converts the USD accounts to the foreign currency, no
> > issues. 
> > 
> > The program is set to default to local (US) currency, and was even when I
> > was overseas as far as I know. Now it is also set to local US. My local
> > settings on my computer are also set for the US. So yeah, I cannot for the
> > life of me figure this out. 
> > 
> > thanks in advance! 
> 
> Check the price database for both USD->??? and ???->USD and make sure that the most recent price is correct in both directions.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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