That worked perfectly. Thank you. Your brief instruction should be added to the GnuCash help manual.
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 8:58 PM David H <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a perl script - basically a text file which you can open with Notepad > if you want to look at the contents. Run it in a command prompt window > using perl as follows - perl "C:\Program Files > (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-update" - you need double quotes around the file > path as it contains a space. > > On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 12:21, Steve Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ok, from searching around it appears your suggestion is indeed what I >> need to do, eg run gnc-fq-update. In the gnucash bin directory I see a file >> with that name, but how on earth do I run it? It appears to just be a text >> file. Also, when I go to the start menu, there is no longer a folder for >> gnucash, just the main program app so no program in there w that name, so >> that's not helpful. I've looked in the gnucash documentation, but that >> provides no info as to how to run/execute that file. >> >> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 6:21 PM David H <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Steve, >>> >>> Try running C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnc-fq-update, I seem to >>> recall that fixed it for me on Windows when I initially went to version 5.0. >>> >>> Cheers David H. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 10:21, Steve Miller < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> *So I'm running Windows 11, for years have used GnuCash version 4.14. >>>> It >>>> also shows I'm using Finance:Quote 1.53. When I go to prices, to "Get >>>> Quotes" and click the button, it works fine, always has, still does.* >>>> >>>> *BUT, when I install any GnuCash 5.0 version, the "Get Quotes" button is >>>> grayed out, so I can't get any quotes. If I revert to 4.14, it works >>>> great >>>> again.* >>>> >>>> *Any idea what's going on in GnuCash 5.0 and above that would cause >>>> that?* >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gnucash-user mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>>> 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 [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
