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Price Update Problems? Don in San Antonio 06-29-2007
Posted by John Pollard on July 4, 2007, 2:18 pm
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 Steve Blake wrote:
> Try a a free little program called "Netstock". It will
> retrieve the
> prices and export them in Quicken format to then be imported
> into
> Quicken. I have used it for years and I get my updates daily
> when the
> Quicken servers are not working (which is very often
> nowadays). It
> can be found at http://www.splitcycle.com

I tried it out today (July 4th): basically, I like it.

But by coincidence of the date, I think I uncovered a bug in
Netstock: although it displays prices dated 7/3, it creates a
Quicken comma delimited file with prices dated 7/4. A problem
that has a somewhat familiar ring to it. ;)

[I left a message with the developer; it seems like a problem
that could be easy to solve. And a workaround of having Wordpad
replace all "7/4" with "7/3" allowed the prices to be imported
into Quicken for the correct date.]

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John Pollard
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Posted by Steve Blake on July 5, 2007, 5:37 pm
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 I think it puts the current days date in the export. Did you create the
export file on the 4th with the 3rd prices?


John Pollard wrote:
> Steve Blake wrote:
>> Try a a free little program called "Netstock". It will
>> retrieve the
>> prices and export them in Quicken format to then be imported
>> into
>> Quicken. I have used it for years and I get my updates daily
>> when the
>> Quicken servers are not working (which is very often
>> nowadays). It
>> can be found at http://www.splitcycle.com
>
> I tried it out today (July 4th): basically, I like it.
>
> But by coincidence of the date, I think I uncovered a bug in
> Netstock: although it displays prices dated 7/3, it creates a
> Quicken comma delimited file with prices dated 7/4. A problem
> that has a somewhat familiar ring to it. ;)
>
> [I left a message with the developer; it seems like a problem
> that could be easy to solve. And a workaround of having Wordpad
> replace all "7/4" with "7/3" allowed the prices to be imported
> into Quicken for the correct date.]
>

Posted by John Pollard on July 5, 2007, 6:32 pm
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Steve Blake wrote:
> I think it puts the current days date in the export.

I agree ... for the Quicken export.

But it used the correct date (July 3 - the actual date of the
prices) when it did a "Full Export".

> Did you create the export file on the 4th with the 3rd prices?

Yes.

That's exactly what the problem was. Netstock had prices
clearly displayed as dated July 3 (even though they were
acquired on July 4); but when Netstock exported to a file for
Quicken, it elected to use the current date instead of the date
of the prices it had.

My guess is that it is a simple oversight that Netstock did not
put the date of the prices in its "Quicken export" ... since it
did put the date of those prices in its "Full export".

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John Pollard
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Posted by Ken Blake on July 4, 2007, 2:46 pm
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wrote:

> Try a a free little program called "Netstock". It will retrieve the
> prices and export them in Quicken format to then be imported into
> Quicken. I have used it for years and I get my updates daily when the
> Quicken servers are not working (which is very often nowadays). It can
> be found at http://www.splitcycle.com


I just downloaded it and tried installing it, but the installation
failed with the message

FindFirstFile() failed with error #21.

Perhaps it's a Vista issue. Do you know whether it will run under
Vista?

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Posted by Steve Blake on July 5, 2007, 6:24 pm
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Do not know about Vista. Still on XP Pro.

Ken Blake wrote:
> wrote:
>
>> Try a a free little program called "Netstock". It will retrieve the
>> prices and export them in Quicken format to then be imported into
>> Quicken. I have used it for years and I get my updates daily when the
>> Quicken servers are not working (which is very often nowadays). It can
>> be found at http://www.splitcycle.com
>
>
> I just downloaded it and tried installing it, but the installation
> failed with the message
>
> FindFirstFile() failed with error #21.
>
> Perhaps it's a Vista issue. Do you know whether it will run under
> Vista?
>

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