Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote enters previous day's price as today's

2020-06-23 Thread Robin Chattopadhyay
Dave R. is correct to call out the timing as a source of the issue. Just to add some additional background, I work in the financial services industry and a component part of my team's work is to ingest prices from 200+ mutual fund companies, covering tens of thousands of mutual fund prices. The

Re: [GNC] Guidance request.

2020-06-23 Thread David Cousens
James For synchroniszation on Linux and Windows and MacOSX (via Macports) you might like to try the Unison File Synchronizer. I sync my files between several systems with this and find it pretty painless once it is initially setup. Requires setting up SSH certificates but that is not too hard

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote enters previous day's price as today's

2020-06-23 Thread David Reiser via gnucash-user
> On Jun 23, 2020, at 4:10 PM, David Carlson > wrote: > > I am not sure that this is your problem or not, but I have found that I > need to wait several hours after the markets have closed before downloading > mutual fund prices. It seems to take hours for some of them to get posted > at

Re: [GNC] Guidance request.

2020-06-23 Thread james via gnucash-user
Adrien, Thanks for the advice and ideas. I'll play around and get the old years into version 3.96 or 4.x. Then play around with things and get the basics working again, with distributed backups across several linux systems. I guess, from what I read, is it is pretty straightforward to get

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote enters previous day's price as today's

2020-06-23 Thread Matthew Forbis via gnucash-user
I've actually found that sometimes it's easier to retrieve quotes and import through the CSV importer instead of trying to add price quotes on a cron job.  If you have already set up and alphavantage account, I've found that with a little powershell, I can easily retrieve the historical prices

Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote enters previous day's price as today's

2020-06-23 Thread David Carlson
I am not sure that this is your problem or not, but I have found that I need to wait several hours after the markets have closed before downloading mutual fund prices. It seems to take hours for some of them to get posted at Yahoo.com. One way to check would be to see what Yahoo.com is reporting

[GNC] Finance::Quote enters previous day's price as today's

2020-06-23 Thread Colin
First off, I just installed GnuCash a couple weeks ago, after trying a few other options and finding they simply weren't mature enough or feature-complete enough for what I need. I can't say thank you enough to everyone who's developed this program, everyone who continues to develop it and

Re: [GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks?

2020-06-23 Thread Adrian Yong
Thanks Liz.. Very valid point... I don't have much problems with GNUcash... On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:33 PM Liz Dodd wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:06:05 +0800 > Adrian Yong wrote: > > > As Gnucash is still under development, > > This is a place to point out a difference in view points. > >

Re: [GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks?

2020-06-23 Thread Liz Dodd
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:06:05 +0800 Adrian Yong wrote: > As Gnucash is still under development, This is a place to point out a difference in view points. Lots of software is still under development. Most commercial software is, so that they can sell you a new version, rather than just an offer