[GNC] OFX connect/AQbanking problem

D. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 13 11:22:38 EST 2021


Sure, I understand. No problem! I am pretty sure the problem is on the Quicken side, rather than AQbanking. Others who have reported these problems over the last year or so have also noted that their attempts to negotiate with their financial institutions have been met with resistance from the banks. The successes that have been reported have resulted from users who downloaded a recent copy of Quicken and sniffed the packets that come and go during a session with their bank under Quicken. I long ago abandoned downloading transactions from banks, for these reasons, but you could always try that approach. 

David


-------- Original Message --------
From: Elmar <etschme at gmail.com>
Sent: Sat Mar 13 11:04:12 EST 2021
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>, sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [GNC] OFX connect/AQbanking problem

Thank you for the explanation, David.  My "pique" if you will, was the 
lack of response following the last reply.  What I was hoping for was a 
pointer to what changed between version 2 and version 4 of GC in 
aqbanking, since the older version did downloads fine, but the new 
version doesn't, or failing that, some way to diagnose the problem based 
on the error message, or lastly a person I could contact that knows the 
internals of the module, especially since Quicken is supported by the 
bank (I don't have Quicken, btw).  In any case, I don't "blame" anyone, 
especially not for a volunteer maintained and developed program. Such an 
attitude is imho simply wrong.  I apologize if I came off too strong. - 
Elmar

On 3/13/21 10:51 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> Message: 12
> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:51:39 -0500
> From: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> To: Elmar <etschme at gmail.com>
> Cc: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>, Rainer Dorsch via gnucash-user
> 	<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] OFX connect/AQbanking problem.
> Message-ID: <f80b6293-2ef7-4dde-bc07-5ba6711caa1d at yahoo.com>
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> Elmar,
>
> The AQbanking connection is a commercially-maintained black box protocol that was previously reverse engineered by the diligent volunteer maintainer of the AQbanking package. The fact that it failed when the commercial vendor altered the innards inside the box is not surprising. The ongoing challenges of figuring out the workarounds demonstrates the skill with which that commercial vendor has created their new system. There have been numerous discussions on these lists regarding different attempts. That they haven't worked for you is lamentable, to be sure, but not a reason to blame the group for not providing you a solution.
>
> David T.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Elmar <etschme at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sat Mar 13 09:33:50 EST 2021
> To: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>
> Cc: GNU Cash User <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] OFX connect/AQbanking problem.
>
> Alas, it seems as if the assembled knowledge base cannot solve this.? It
> bothers me that this used to work fine in the older version, but now
> fails, despite having the bank in the database.? No help at all?? The
> bank will not "expose" its OFX files for download - only CSV, and that's
> a royal pain. - Elmar




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