updating financial institutions

The frequency of "scheduled updates" can be specified (which days of the week): they only run when you're not using Quicken and they won't upload anything (like bill payments), just download.

Online > Schedule Updates.

hi - I thought there was a sub-dir that had the old "banklist" info, and that list was updated on a frequent basis - needed or not - But, that was back a long time ago (Q2000/Q2004) according to my email archive with respect to a sub-dir /inet/banklist.txt

Sorry, I misunderstood your original post.

I know of no way to schedule the frequency of the update of the financial institution info; now (Q2005 & Q2006) found in "fidir.txt" in:

\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Quicken\Inet\Common\Localweb\Banklist

I think that file is normally updated (during One Step Update) at least every two days, possibly every day. If you feel it is not up to date, you can force an update. In the Online Center, hold down the CTRL key and click "Contact into", select your financial institution, check "Financial Institution Branding and Profile", click Refresh. Then initiate a One Step Update with nothing checked.

tnx again John - I was thinking in the other direction - less frequent. I found it - it's in the index.ini file. Doing a search of the C: originally didn't find the Banklist sub-dir - because it was tagged as hidden.

-- [UpdateDir] UpdateType=fidir06 UpdateName=Update Financial Institution Information FrequencyÚily Banking=1 SourceURL=