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 also found a note in this haystack from Erik Colson indicating that as of this time vanguard, nasdaq and nyse prices are not retrieved by the alphavantage module, and a lot of my currently owned securities are traded on nasdaq, so that is another gotcha to watch out for. David C On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:20 AM, D <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > See below. > > On November 13, 2017, at 9:02 PM, David Carlson < > david.carlson....@gmail.com> 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 Alphavantage source > working, > >it appears that it does not work if there is a mix of some securities > >changed and many not changed. > >1. Do I have to find all of them and change all before it will work? > > Unfortunately, yes. > > >2. If so, is there an easy way to find them all? > > Not really. I tried using the sql back end to change things (through > direct manipulation in the tables, which is NOT recommended), but the > result was not successful. The sources were changed, but retrieval failed. > I didn't feel like exploring further, so I went back to my original file > and changed them manually. > > >3. If not,what troubleshooting steps will help figure out why it is not > >working yet? > > I went through all my securities and changed them all. Then I ran get > quotes, and checked the errors, which were inevitably omissions on my part. > Rinse and repeat until you don't get errors. > > Perhaps it would be advisable to take this opportunity to clean out the > older securities and turn off retrieval for them. Those lookups take time, > the prices take space, and it doesn't really serve your accounting any real > purpose to keep retrieving them. > > David T. > > >David C > >_______________________________________________ > >gnucash-user mailing list > >gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >----- > >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.