Re: How to find out which securities need to be switched from Yahoo to Alphavantage

Ouch!! David T, I vaguely recall that either you or someone you were discussing price retrieval with about a year or two ago developed a way to find and purge old prices from a file in a more selective way than the current purge function works. Is that documented somewhere? Parenthetically, I

Re: How to find out which securities need to be switched from Yahoo to Alphavantage

See below. On November 13, 2017, at 9:02 PM, David Carlson wrote: >I have been using GnuCash for many years and there are many securities in >my file that I no longer own, but I may or may not have discontinued >downloading their prices.  In trying to get my

Re: How to find out which securities need to be switched from Yahoo to Alphavantage

Ah, this was the problem for me as well. I found an ancient Templeton fund that hadn't been switched over. The actual bug here (and I have written it before on this mailing list) is that the error message that Gnucash provides is useless. It needs to contain more information about what failed.

How to find out which securities need to be switched from Yahoo to Alphavantage

I have been using GnuCash for many years and there are many securities in my file that I no longer own, but I may or may not have discontinued downloading their prices. In trying to get my Alphavantage source working, it appears that it does not work if there is a mix of some securities changed