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danbrown wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

How do you get the OSU to run automatically & unattended? (BTW I download transactions from 12 accounts at 6 institutions. Don't know how I would do this without OSU)

Well, dontcha know that he simply faces Mecca, then clicks his heels together a la Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz?

Just a comment about this; when I last tried to do this automatically at night, either the WAKE UP FROM SLEEP function or (and this I seem to remember is the more likely reason) is that I had to re-enter the password vault to allow the 'automatic' D/L to occur.

So I turned it off since I wasn't at the keyboard when it automatically got kicked off.

So, is this still an issue, or perhaps you don't use the vault password?

danbrown wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Thanks. You learn something new every day.

Set your password vault to be input at Windows start-up ... not at Q start-up. And since only my wife and I live here, I'm not worried about snooping.

Hmm, I had that option checked off, but I still need to enter the PW at Quicken startup, not at Windows start up. But I changed the options to actually do the updates, so we'll see what happens tomorrow morning at 6 AM. Thanks for the pointer.

It'll never work if the password is at Q startup ... because you'd need to be there to input the Q password for the "Scheduled Update" ... which is actually an automated running of Q to collect your info.

OK....thanks.

So where exactly is the option to specify to enter password at Window's startup (As opposed to at Quicken startup, or when one initiates a manual update.) I don't see such an option (I'm on Q 2017 D).

The option should appear on the "Scheduled Updates" window.

TOOLS, Schedule Updates ... there's a radio button to specify either "At Windows Startup" or "Before each scheduled update"

danbrown wrote: .....

Thanks danbrown; I'll give it another shot.

So again, doesn't work for me. Even though it says 'Windows startup', I have my PC's POWER settings to go to sleep in 30 minutes of inactivity. Nothing happens at the scheduled time for Quicken. When I come back in the morning to jiggle the mouse, at THAT time Quicken wakes up when it asks me for the Password...so I have to be at the keyboard anyway.

Just might as well go back to a manual update when I wake the machine up as I'm used to doing.

Not a big deal to wait for the few minutes it takes for the OSU.

After you set "Window's startup", did you re-boot the computer so that the setting was implemented?

And, I simply don't know if the Scheduled Update program can awake a computer from sleep. But, that might indeed be the final stumbling block.

Actually, I didn't since last reboot was at least 5 days ago and I've had the vault open and closed many times since (I shut down Q after I use it). But it is true perhaps that might make a difference, so I will reboot after this AM (and changing the setting again!) and report back in the next few days.

Thanks danbrown.

"Andrew" wrote: Actually, I didn't since last reboot was at least 5 days ago and I've had the vault open and closed many times since (I shut down Q after I use it). But it is true perhaps that might make a difference, so I will reboot after this AM (and changing the setting again!) and report back in the next few days.

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Oh, ok John. Thank you for the pointer. Will check that out....I forgot to reboot yesterday anyway.