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Auto Share price dowload causes Quicken to close (crash?)

Hi, wonder if anyone has come accross this? Running XP Pro and Quicken Personal Plus 2008 (Australain version). Yestrday while using auto update to update the share prices in my portfolio quicken decided to spit the dummy and just close without updating the prices. No error messages or warnings etc, it just closed down? I tried switching of virus scan and firewall but did it did nothing, Quicken continued to just close down whenever I tried to download share prices. Tried re-setting the download settings but no go, it continued to close! Has anyone come accross this and fixed it?

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Rick
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Started quicken tonight clicked update and it worked? It seels to have fixed itself? A very worrying thing as it is just as likely to unfix itself! Anyway maybe giving it a rest overnight reset something? Rick

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Rick

Rick, I have had the same proiblem a number of times . . last Friday was the most reccent though tonight was fine. FWIW Dave

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vwq47

These kind of problems are usually caused by some data coming in that is outside of the range of values that the program expects, along with some sloppy programming that is not prepared for the bad data. For example, if the program expected to receive 3 number values, but only got 2 numbers, then it might crash when it tried to use the third value that was missing.

It was probably fixed by someone correcting the invalid data that was being downloaded. Now, the program no longer receives the bad data, and avoids the crash. The problem will always be there in the program unless it is corrected by an update, as it probably always has been there, but as long as the data is OK, it will work just fine.

Jim

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JimH

About 1/3 of the times I do a on-line download of share prices from Quicken/Intuit my Quicken 2002 simply freezes. When I do a control-alt-delete the indication is that 100% of the processor cycles are being used. I have to delete Quicken from the active list and then re-start quicken. My OS is Win XP, SP2 with all the updates.

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sharx35

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