Has Quicken update finally died??

AndyRat

I have been using Quicken98 for ages, it was updated to a 2000 version in the dark distant days of the millenium bug.

All was well until last week when the update for shares etc failed with the following message: Online Quotes 10606: Quote server error

Has anyone else experienced this or even better have a solution please.

Many thanks

Marty999

Quicken is no longer supported in the UK, so perhaps that's why?

AndyRat

Al_Mac wrote:

Not been supported for a while. I added a new share last week and it worked, just tried it now and it didn't work

Is it time to switch?

Anyone ot any tips with switching to MS Money or anything else?

I have thousands of transactions over many accounts to migrate, don't want to lose the history as it includes my stoozing etc.

Would be a real pain to rekey.

shabani

You can actually get Quickbooks and you can convert your Quicken dataset to QB and you will keep all the transactions in your Quicken dataset.
Conversion is quite simple and should take no more than 5 minutes

Marty999

AndyRat wrote:

Anyone ot any tips with switching to MS Money or anything else?

I have thousands of transactions over many accounts to migrate, don't want to lose the history as it includes my stoozing etc.

Would be a real pain to rekey.

I switched to MoneyDance a few months ago. It's not quite as functional or pretty as Quicken but it does all I ask of it and imported all my accounts not problem. It's shareware (about £10) and has a good support network and I am told they issue updates free of charge as they get released. Recommended.

MisterE_4

I'm in the UK and use Quicken 2004 on a Vista machine. I know support has been discontinued but until a few weeks ago I could update stock prices.

I have been getting 'quote server error' for about a week now.

Does anyone have any ideas about whether there is a fix or workaround for this?

Thx

LardyCake

AndyRat wrote: »

Anyone ot any tips with switching to MS Money or anything else?

I have thousands of transactions over many accounts to migrate, don't want to lose the history as it includes my stoozing etc.

Would be a real pain to rekey.

Why not give GnuCash a try? http://www.gnucash.org/index.phtml
It is opensource and won't cost you anything (unless you choose to donate!). I've been using it for a couple of years and find it very good.

This link tells how to import Quicken data:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Which_is_the_best_way_to_import_data_from_Quicken.28TM.29.3F

steve3742

OK, I had the same problem and there's a workaround, but it's a bit tedious. I've just imported all my stuff over from MS Money 2000 into Quicken 2002, mainly because Quicken 2002 works out of WINE in Ubuntu Linux, and so have downloaded and imported all my old prices for the last 4 years wholesale. Doing this every week, though, I'm not sure that'd be a good idea.

1. OK. Step one. Go to Yahoo's finance home page. It seems I can't post the link as I'm a new user. Enter the name of the company or share ticker you want to download where it says "enter company or symbol" You may get a page with a choice of stocks on, make sure you click on the right one. As an example, if I want Tescos share prices, I enter Tesco and click on "Get quote" Of the options that come up next, it's the London one with the symbol TSCO.L that I want, so I click that.
2. Having done this, you should be on a page with all the stock details on it. On the left hand side under the header "Quotes" should be the link "Historical Prices". Click this.
3. This should give you a page with historical share prices on. The default is set to Year to date, I think, but feel free to change it to whatever you want in the boxes at the top. For example, if I wanted all Tesco share prices since 2005, I set the start date to 1 Jan 2005, make sure the radio button on the right is set to "Daily" and click "Get Prices".
4. The prices are split over a number of different webpages. Rather than copy and paste each page, scroll down to the bottom and click "Download to Spreadsheet" It will then open a new spreadsheet (Open Office Calc, in my case, but Excel should work fine also) with all the data in it.
5. OK, this is the tricky bit. You only want the symbol, the date and the final price, in that order. Delete all the columns apart from Date and final price (Delete the actual columns, not just the data in them.) Insert a column to the left of the date column and type the symbol into the first cell of that column. MAKE SURE IT'S THE SYMBOL QUICKEN USES - it won't necessarily be the same one Yahoo uses. Fill down the column until all the rows have this symbol in.
6. Save as a csv file on the C drive - this makes it easy to find. For example, I'd save the file as Tesco.csv on the C drive
7. Finally, go to Quicken, go to Portfolio view and then go to File>Import>Import Prices. Where it says "File (full name or full path)", type your file name and path - C:\Tesco.csv, using the example above. Click OK and that should be it.

The FTSE 100 and similar have direct links to them from the yahoo finance home page and can be updated this way also.

This is OK for importing 4 years of data, as in the example above. But I don't know that I'd like to do it every week, or even every month.