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Suddenly can't download Amex Calab 03-29-2008
Posted by Calab on March 29, 2008, 8:30 pm
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A couple days ago, the download for my Amex card stopped working. It has
been working fine for months. I waited a few days with no improvement. I
logged into the Amex website and all my accounts look normal.

I've deleted the Onestep update in Quicken for this account, but when I try
to recreate it I'm told "Quicken could not complete your request. Please try
again later."

Any ideas what's happening here?



Posted by Han on March 29, 2008, 8:56 pm
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> A couple days ago, the download for my Amex card stopped working. It
> has been working fine for months. I waited a few days with no
> improvement. I logged into the Amex website and all my accounts look
> normal.
>
> I've deleted the Onestep update in Quicken for this account, but when
> I try to recreate it I'm told "Quicken could not complete your
> request. Please try again later."
>
> Any ideas what's happening here?
>
I've not had any persistent resent problems (sometimes servers are out of
action for "scheduled maintenance". However, not too long ago I had a
meltdown of my password vault, and had to restore a prior backup to get
going again. Made me reconstrcut a couple of days of downloads &
entries, but otherwise proved that "Backups are your friends".

I suggest restoring a backup of a a day or more before the problem
occurred (of course rename or relocate the file set to prevent
overwriting your latest files).

YMMV!
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Best regards
Han
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Posted by Calab on March 29, 2008, 10:43 pm
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|
| > A couple days ago, the download for my Amex card stopped working. It
| > has been working fine for months. I waited a few days with no
| > improvement. I logged into the Amex website and all my accounts look
| > normal.

| I've not had any persistent resent problems (sometimes servers are out of
| action for "scheduled maintenance". However, not too long ago I had a
| meltdown of my password vault, and had to restore a prior backup to get
| going again. Made me reconstrcut a couple of days of downloads &
| entries, but otherwise proved that "Backups are your friends".

I'll try deleting the password vault and recreating it.

One other thing I'm sure I've read, but can't find it now, is that you can
do an extended file validation by holding down a key combination when you
click File->File Operations->Validate. Anyone know what that key combo is?



Posted by Han on March 30, 2008, 8:06 am
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>
>|
>| > A couple days ago, the download for my Amex card stopped working.
>| > It has been working fine for months. I waited a few days with no
>| > improvement. I logged into the Amex website and all my accounts
>| > look normal.
>
>| I've not had any persistent resent problems (sometimes servers are
>| out of action for "scheduled maintenance". However, not too long ago
>| I had a meltdown of my password vault, and had to restore a prior
>| backup to get going again. Made me reconstrcut a couple of days of
>| downloads & entries, but otherwise proved that "Backups are your
>| friends".
>
> I'll try deleting the password vault and recreating it.
>
> One other thing I'm sure I've read, but can't find it now, is that you
> can do an extended file validation by holding down a key combination
> when you click File->File Operations->Validate. Anyone know what that
> key combo is?
>
>
See http://web.intuit.com/support/quicken/2003/win/6148.html

But using a recent backup might be better. Remember to fool ONLY with
copies of files that may or may not be damaged. Especially Super
validate has been known to cause more damage than it fixes.

Do you have a BACKUP directory in your Quicken data directory? Then find
the backup you would use, copy it and rename it (all of the files in the
file set - I have *.qdf, *.idx, *.qel, *.qph, and *.qtx).

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Best regards
Han
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Posted by John Pollard on March 30, 2008, 9:48 am
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Calab wrote:
>>
>>> A couple days ago, the download for my Amex card stopped
>>> working. It
>>> has been working fine for months. I waited a few days with
>>> no
>>> improvement. I logged into the Amex website and all my
>>> accounts look
>>> normal.
>
>> I've not had any persistent resent problems (sometimes
>> servers are
>> out of action for "scheduled maintenance". However, not too
>> long
>> ago I had a meltdown of my password vault, and had to restore
>> a
>> prior backup to get going again. Made me reconstrcut a
>> couple of
>> days of downloads & entries, but otherwise proved that
>> "Backups are
>> your friends".
>
> I'll try deleting the password vault and recreating it.
>
> One other thing I'm sure I've read, but can't find it now, is
> that
> you can do an extended file validation by holding down a key
> combination when you click File->File Operations->Validate.
> Anyone
> know what that key combo is?

When validating with the hope of fixing downloading problems,
Intuit says to deactivate ALL Quicken accounts for downloading
before doing the Validate (validate does not do a complete
validate when there are accounts activated for downloading). I
think that recommendation was made for US versions of Quicken,
but has a good chance of being true for non-US versions as well.

[Make a backup before doing this. The validate may not help,
but deactivating, then reactivating, may end up giving you many
downloaded transactions that you had already downloaded. If the
validate doesn't help and you get lots of duplicate downloads,
you can just switch to the backup.]

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