Re: Setting up Mac IE for Web Connect?

[Eric Trepanier]

No, but I did deleted some "empty entries" in the file helper settings.
(See the attached screenshot.)
They keep coming back though.  Could this be what is causing my problems
with the QT plug-in not working anymore?

Is there a file-helper list preference file I can delete that would be
automatically recreated and would fix the QT problem?

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As for Quicken Web Connect, the downloaded qfx files end up on the desktop
but they don't sport a Quicken icon.  When double-clicked, they open into
TextEdit and look like XML files without an actual <xml> header.

Using Get Info to set the file to open with Quicken changes the file's icon
to a Quicken data file icon, but when I double-click the file, Quicken
launches and displays the following message:

"This is an auxiliary file for Quicken. The best way to open your finances
in Quicken is to double-click on the Quicken application or on your Quicken
data file."

The only way to import the qfx file inside Quicken is to manually launch
Quicken and use the Import Web Connect command from the file menu.  However,
under Classic, IE would automatically invoke Quicken and Quicken would then
instantly import the file, requiring no user intervention.  I just can't get
this behavior to reproduce under X...

On 09/10/01 19:15, "Jimmy Grewal" whose email address shall remain anonymous
wrote:

> Have you tried using the Get Info function in the OS X Finder to make sure
> that file type is associated with Quicken?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Trepanier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:03 AM
> To: Mac Internet Explorer Talk
> Subject: Setting up Mac IE for Web Connect?
> 
> I don't know if anyone else is doing this, but under OS 9, I was using Mac IE
> to connect to my financial institution and retrieve my account statement
> information.  The information was download as a file of type "Quicken Web
> Connect" and after the download, Quicken would automatically open and import
> the statement information, where I could proceed to reconcile.  This was
> working fine under Mac OS 9 / Quicken 2000 / Mac IE 5.
> 
> However, I have been unable to get this to work properly under Mac OS X 10.1 /
> Quicken 2002 / Mac IE 5.1
> 
> The User Guide provides the following info for setting up Mac IE to recognize
> Web Connect files:
> 
> Setting up your browser for Web Connect
> Some browsers do not use Mac OS file mapping database when downloading data
> files from the Internet. Before you begin downloading Web Connect data into
> Quicken you must set your browser for the following values:
> * the file extension is ".qfx"
> * the MIME type is "application/vnd.intu.qfx"
> * the file is "Binary data"
> * the Mac OS "File Type" is "WBCN"
> * the Mac OS "File Creator" is "INTU"
> * the file is "Post Processed" with Quicken
> 
> I have tried to do the above.  The result looks like this:
> 
> 
> Some comments here:
> * There are three apparently blank file helpers that always appear at the top
> of the list.  I can delete them, but they always return when reopening the IE
> preferences/file helper settings.
> * The file type drop down menu above does not replace the text in the file
> type text box.  You can click it and see the file types supported by the app,
> but if you select a type from the drop down menu, it does not replace the
> current value in the text box.  This, I believe, is different from the Mac IE
> 5.0 classic behavior.
> 
> That said, even after I have defined a file helper as seen above, clicking the
> "download" link on my financial institution's statement summary page still
> results in dropping a "pcbanking.qfx" file on my desktop.  Quicken is not
> launched to automatically post-process it.  I must manually launch Quicken and
> chose import Web Connect from the File menu.  Am I forgetting anything?

-- 
Éric Trépanier
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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