[GNC] Get Quotes under Ver 4.14 v 5.0 or 5.1 or 5.2 or 5.3

[Steve Miller]

That worked perfectly. Thank you. Your brief instruction should be added to
the GnuCash help manual.

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 8:58 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a perl script - basically a text file which you can open with Notepad
> if you want to look at the contents.  Run it in a command prompt window
> using perl as follows - perl "C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-update" - you need double quotes around the file
> path as it contains a space.
>
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 12:21, Steve Miller <srmnonessential239x at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok, from searching around it appears your suggestion is indeed what I
>> need to do, eg run gnc-fq-update. In the gnucash bin directory I see a file
>> with that name, but how on earth do I run it?  It appears to just be a text
>> file.  Also, when I go to the start menu, there is no longer a folder for
>> gnucash, just the main program app so no program in there w that name, so
>> that's not helpful. I've looked in the gnucash documentation, but that
>> provides no info as to how to run/execute that file.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 6:21 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>> Try running C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-update, I seem to
>>> recall that fixed it for me on Windows when I initially went to version 5.0.
>>>
>>> Cheers David H.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 10:21, Steve Miller <
>>> srmnonessential239x at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> *So I'm running Windows 11, for years have used GnuCash version 4.14.
>>>> It
>>>> also shows I'm using Finance:Quote 1.53.  When I go to prices, to "Get
>>>> Quotes" and click the button, it works fine, always has, still does.*
>>>>
>>>> *BUT, when I install any GnuCash 5.0 version, the "Get Quotes" button is
>>>> grayed out, so I can't get any quotes.  If I revert to 4.14, it works
>>>> great
>>>> again.*
>>>>
>>>> *Any idea what's going on in GnuCash 5.0 and above that would cause
>>>> that?*
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