quotes - 1/18/08 ?

fix what ? you mean not having news, alerts, quotes, etc working correctly since last June 2007 ? ask Intuit/Quicken forum.... no answer

BTW - I thought I saw an "update software" come thru today or yesterday ? Wonder if there is a log to see what modules were updated, and see if that has anything to do with broken downloads ? ie - the downloads are correctly happening, but the local parser is broken or expecting a different format..

I fired up my local software protocol analyzer, and ran it while I did the usual One Step Update. yup - we sent all the symbols to our server.... qw2006.quicken.com and it replied with it's binary formatted data stream. What happened after that I don't know. BUT - the server for my QW2006 is working, replying, and sending data. SO - it must be some "disconnect" between the formatted data being sent, and the local parser... maybe recently updated incorrectly ????

It's still down. One Step Update acts as if it is working, but no prices are updated. Typical Intuit; you never can rely on them for accurate securities prices. You can be sure that several times a year this type of problem will occur and you will get bad data.

Another even simpler way is to download a program called "Netstock" from

. Load the symbols you want, get thequotes anytime, do an "Update Quicken" from the File menu,which will write the CSV file to your disk, and use File/Importto import them to quicken. Jim

The Quicken.com data is old, too. I got some updates, but only about half. This time it's not alphabet related as it is sometimes. My Quicken now says that "the server is not responding properly." Wait until tomorrow. They are probably loaded with Turbotax stuff.

On a second look, one account updated. All others not. Not sure which attempt got the data.

Just be careful of Netstock's little quirk: it always dates the Quicken prices with "today's" date ... even if that isn't the date in the price it has.

John makes a very good point. A work around you can use is:

Open the exported file "prices.txt" by double clicking on it. The file opens with notepad. Now go to EDIT, Replace, then in the find field type the date you want to change and in the replace field type the date you want to use.

For example...I got and exported the prices today, 1/19/2008. The prices were actually for yesterday, 1/18/2008

So in the "Find What" field i typed 1/19/2008 and in the Replace With field I typed 1/18/2008 then clicked OK and all the dates were changed to

1/18/2008.

I then >

"MedRxMan" wrote in news:d8-dnZ9DJI-BAg_anZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Yes I tried this also, but figured that I could replace /19/ with /18/ (nowhere but in the date would there be 2 forward slashes with the number between for the date). It worked. But in my tries I forgot the replace routine once, so now I have whole bunch of stock prices for Saturday the

19th. Is there a way to delete "en masse" a bunch of stock prices for a single date?

My advise is to suck it up and forget it. unless you want to delete the

1/19/2008 individually from each stock. I have the duplicate prices also for the 19th but have 142 prices..too long a process. Even in Quicken if you download on a Saturday, the program would use 1/19/2008 unless you remembered to change the date where indicated. I would wager a STARBUCKS that at some point n time you have duplicate prices as a result of forgetting to change the date.

Have a nice weekend and let it RIP

I have no complaint with the workaround, but I suggest a much better long term solution.

Ask the Netstock developer to provide the option to use the known date of the prices in the "Quicken" price file export.

I believe the change would be trivial - the program already uses the "known" date for its other - non Quicken - price file export.

When I suggested this to the developer, he replied that it was necessary to use "today's date" because he thought it was possible that some prices his program acquired could have dates that were "invalid" dates. This is not a legitmate reason for the treatment given ... though his other reason - that the product was "free" could be close to such a reason.

My guess is that the change would be trivial ... but I do not have enough information to be sure that this is so.

I think that if the developer knew that many Quicken users wanted the "known" date of the prices exported ... he might relent.

[In fact, it should also be a trivial matter to determine if a date is a "valid" date ... in which case the application could then substitute today's date, or - better yet - refrain from exporting any price record for that invalid date.]

"MedRxMan" wrote in news:3c-dnfG3aYXTLw_anZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

I'm not laying awake because of that (I don't have that many stocks that I am tracking), and I am having a nice weekend in spite of everything. Thanks for the help.

Anyone know how to translate the netstock stock index symbols into Quicken ones? For instance, netstock calls the S&P 500 ^GSPC, whilke in Quicken it seems to be INX.

"John Pollard" wrote in news:fmud5i$55p$ snipped-for-privacy@aioe.org:

The other "problem" is that Quicken (at least my 2008) during import has a date field that defaults to today's date. That might have to be changed possibly too, although it says "if not specified".

(I'm waiting with my donation to Netstock until these things are fixed - hint, hint!)

I found another good use for the "Netstock" program. All its files reside in one folder, therefore you can copy the entire folder to a flash drive and run the program from the flash drive itself. Handy if you are traveling. All you need is access to a PC with access to the inernet.