My Microsoft Money has stopped getting prices online

BentleyBoy

Money has had problems with $ for some time before the updating problem. It seemed to have stopped applying the current days exchange rate to dollar holdings.
Google finance just includes them in its lists at dollar prices and values so the total at the bottom of the list is just garbage!

Paul

MadLoopy

Does anyone really think the Microsoft Money share update will return or is it now dead?? It surely cannot cost that much to keep it going.. Really gutted

Lakeuk

MadLoopy wrote: »

Does anyone really think the Microsoft Money share update will return or is it now dead?? It surely cannot cost that much to keep it going.. Really gutted

End of the line for MS Money on the online pricing side, still useful as an offline money manager

sabretoothtigger

Cant another company update it at some price

Hippo0

Farmcotts wrote: »

Like others I have found Microsoft Money has stopped updating shares on the 1st July. I have used the java script solution using ft.com to update prices. I find the update records as a buy on the graphic which is a little distracting. Also I am finding it is doing something peculiar to $ investment values. Any ideas.

The app does not appear to be able to handle multiple currencies in one import, and it is assuming all prices are coming in as GBP (which is what I've assumed you've selected). One (cumbersome) way to deal with this is:

1. Set up a different portfolio in ft.com for each currency you have stocks in.

1a. In the java app, set up a different profile for each currency. You need a different currency and ofx account id for each currency, and the best way to deal with this is with profiles, search for "quote profile" on the following page:

http : // code.google.com/p/hle-ofx-quotes/wiki/Build_20110226_001


2. Set up different equivalent portfolios for each currency in MSMoney. You will be asked to do this the first time you run after an import (below)

3. Export a different csv from ft.com for each portfolio.

4. Before importing each csv, select the appropriate profile.

5. Import the appropriate csv.

6 . Repeat 4. and 5. for each currency.


Please also see the user comments at the end of http : // code.google.com/p/hle-ofx-quotes/wiki/UKUsers

All a bit of a hassle really, but not too bad if doing it just once a day.

GKP1

Lakeuk wrote: »

End of the line for MS Money on the online pricing side, still useful as an offline money manager

Afraid I agree. It's been said before, but I think MS Money is possibly the single most useful piece of software ever written. Microsoft's decision first of all to stop supporting it, and then to throw spanners in the works, is bizarre, incomprensible and perverse.
Despite the problems updating prices, I shall still use it because I don't think there is another program out there that truly competes with it. I shall update prices manually once a week.
There is a java program - see earlier posts on this thread - which works for some people. For reasons I don't understand, it doesn't work for me. However, I am a Sharescope subscriber - see http://www.sharescope.co.uk/index.php I have now set up an Excel spreadsheet into which I can import prices automatically by DDE. It works well. For those people happy to pay for a subscription service, I recommend having a look at Sharescope.

droopsnoot

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Cant another company update it at some price

Not without access either to the source code, or to the data file layouts. I tried looking for the latter as I wanted to get some information out of it, and all the information I found was that they did not provide any access to data layouts either directly or via ODBC driver.

My guess is that whatever site they download the updated price information from has now changed format in a way that MS Money does not like, perhaps because of security requirements, or because the site host was upgraded, or whatever - there might be many reasons other than just deliberately stuffing existing users. On that latter point - what would be the gain? It's not as if they're pushing everyone to an updated version. So I suspect there's a technical reason that just breaks access from a program that they haven't supported for more than two years, or sold for more than four years.

What I could see working, especially as someone hinted that the download location is in the registry, would be if someone created an alternate download site which pulled the information from the current MSN site, yet still provided it back to Money in the 'old' style. It wouldn't be a walk in the park as there's probably no documentation on how Money downloads this data, but once you're around that problem it could work. Users would change the registry to point to the "new" site, and that would provide the data.

jimjames

GKP1 wrote: »

Afraid I agree. It's been said before, but I think MS Money is possibly the single most useful piece of software ever written. Microsoft's decision first of all to stop supporting it, and then to throw spanners in the works, is bizarre, incomprensible and perverse.

While I completely agree that MS Money is an exceptionally useful piece of software I can understand why MS have stopped selling or supporting it. I was still using Money 2000 until recently and saw no need to upgrade. If everyone was the same then their sales must have been small each year. Maybe moving to a subscription model would have been viable but how much would people be prepared to pay for daily updates of prices as well as any patches when prices are available online for free.

I'd have been interested in that kind of subscription model but I guess MS did look at options before stopping completely.

GKP1

jimjames wrote: »

While I completely agree that MS Money is an exceptionally useful piece of software I can understand why MS have stopped selling or supporting it. I was still using Money 2000 until recently and saw no need to upgrade. If everyone was the same then their sales must have been small each year. Maybe moving to a subscription model would have been viable but how much would people be prepared to pay for daily updates of prices as well as any patches when prices are available online for free.

I'd have been interested in that kind of subscription model but I guess MS did look at options before stopping completely.

I wonder if they were really aware of the fact that people might be prepared to pay a subscription.

rannydoscoe

Well, I only stumbled across this thread after my share prices stopped updating.

In fact, I had been updating fund prices manually since last August when they "stopped updating". After reading this thread it turns out they can still be updated on-line after changing the fund code! So thanks for the info, they are now downloading as they did in the old days.

I wouldn't give up hope on this just yet, it may be just a temporary glitch or change of server etc, as with the funds. I hope so anyway!