http://www.suburbandollar.com/2009/02/20/using-gnucash-to-manage-your-personal-finances-part-2/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-gnucash-to-manage-your-personal-finances-part-2 Where finance and reality meet Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:54:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.suburbandollar.com/2009/02/20/using-gnucash-to-manage-your-personal-finances-part-2/#comment-2640 David Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:04:44 +0000 http://www.suburbandollar.com/?p=325#comment-2640 Your post is inaccurate with regards to automatic updates; Gnucash is NOT meant to download prices on start up (although that would be nice! ;) The developers always say "Patches welcome"). If you read the Gnucash documents (http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-stockprice1.html#invest-stockprice-auto2) a little more closely, you will see that the process is "automatic" insofar as you can invoke the Get Online Quotes and it will retrieve prices without you having to enter them manually (which is what is described earlier on the page). Admittedly, the documentation is misleading, but Gnucash has never worked the way you expected it to. Your post is inaccurate with regards to automatic updates; Gnucash is NOT meant to download prices on start up (although that would be nice! The developers always say “Patches welcome”). If you read the Gnucash documents (http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-stockprice1.html#invest-stockprice-auto2) a little more closely, you will see that the process is “automatic” insofar as you can invoke the Get Online Quotes and it will retrieve prices without you having to enter them manually (which is what is described earlier on the page). Admittedly, the documentation is misleading, but Gnucash has never worked the way you expected it to.

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