[GNC] Problems with getting European share prices

[Eric Coates]

Hi

This is so weird it must be me ??? otherwise pandemonium would have 
reigned here!

About two weeks ago I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 18.10 and a few days 
later to 19.04 (ironically, I was trying to get around some problems) 
and installed GnuCash from the standard repository; so I am running 
GnuCash 3.4 with Finance::Quote 1.47 on Ubuntu 19.04.

As part of my usual work process, on 30^th April I updated my share 
prices as in the past I was using Alphavantage to get UK share prices 
and Yahoo-JSON to retrieve European prices. Then, as usual, went to 
check that everything was OK.

Although there were no error messages and all the names of my European 
shares were shown in the Price Database window there were no prices 
against any of them ??? and I mean NO prices. I know that there were some 
there at the end of March but everything had gone. Even the little 
triangular thingies were missing. As there are only half a dozen shares 
in this group I thought to add the prices ???by hand??? but I couldn???t do 
it, although I could fill I the fields and clicking Apply gave no 
messages nothing appeared in the database.

A further oddity is that in the table of accounts there is a Present 
value against each of the European shares ??? to get that GnuCash must be 
picking up some price from somewhere. I???ve done some checking around and 
I can???t find a reasonable explanation of how the price is determined.

I take an archive copy of the data file at the end of each month. I have 
opened several of them (using the standard GnuCash 3.4) and get the same 
behaviour with each of them.

As I said, it must be me but - any ideas of what I???m doing wrong.

Or failing that, would I be able to open the 3.5 data file with GnuCash 
2.6.21?

Eric

PS: For completeness:

I had not changed the Symbol for any share since the successful update 
at the end of March. The Yahoo site shows Deutsche Post as DPW.DE (not 
the DPW.F I had been using). Changing the symbol to DPW.DE gave no 
different result (again, not even no error message)