Hack import

Your instructions worked fine and got my file to work with Quicken for Mac. When it does arrive, the application compares what it receives with its built-in rules to decide whether it is authorized to proceed with the download. Any conversation that goes on between the Quicken application and Intuit must follow standard OS X communications protocols and travel on the same internal hardware bus that is used by every software application that talks over a modem port So:.

It would seem that Quicken would process the message just as if it came from Intuit. I think that is definitely something that would work. However injecting something back into the running program without crashing it seems like it might be pretty difficult. As far as I can tell the easiest solution would be to setup a server that will respond to any request as if it was Intuit saying that the bank supports Macs.

Once the server was in place, users would just need to trick OS X into routing the requests to this server instead of to Intuit. This is fairly trivial and amounts to adding a line in the hosts file. Something like:. Once this type of server was in place, everyone could use it by simply adding a single line to their host file. I have the windows version and also have a problem. Do you know if the described solution will work with windows?

That is an incredibly evil, greedy business practice. So much for transparent cross-compatibility. If anyone has an investment acct strategy please post. I tried changing the ofx file as indicated, using Merrill Lynch for Vanguard. I did not change broker id which is long. I continue to get the financial institution cannot be verified message. I cannot import a qfx file, or open the qfx file, only import a webconnect file that is on my desktop, but the message seems to indicate it is going to the institution on the web.

Thanks for the info so far. But quicken is a real disadvantage. But I keep trying to get mac quicken to at least minimally work. This is great info. I just spent 1. Intuit was equally clueless. I can download qfx files from Bank of America and CitiCards just fine. I wonder if their R4 update prevents the qfx from even being downloaded.

It sounds like people are having trouble getting this method to work with investment accounts. So I changed the first line, and lo, my info imported. How can one do this on a regular basis? I use Quicken Mac and had this problem.

I have investment accounts at an unsupported institution, so I replaced the id with that in an ETrade qfx file and it works fine. I take that back — it will only work once, and afterward it is impossible to associate the account in Quicken with a new downloaded QFX.

Oh, well. Back to Windows for my finances? A curse on Intuit! Does anyone know a way around this? You might try typing in the exact error message in quotes in Google and see if anyone else has had experience with it. It requires some first-time setup and may have some quirks to be found. Much better than manually entering 20 transactions or more each month.

I think this guy has earned his shareware price from me. Many thanks — the Wash Mutual info did the trick for my checking account.

Too bad, because Quicken [and Quickbooks, which I use for business] make no attempt to serve Macs. Thanks for this information. I was able to load my checking and savings account information from my institution. However, it did not download my credit card information. Would you happen to have a solution for this? So, there is a program that can really help with this conversion.

This hack works great with Quicken and our E-Trade accounts, including checking and savings. Thank you! Stop using Quicken. Use and support Moneydance. They also just released a new update, which improves on a lot of things. There are some missing things budgetting needs some more features , but it beats the hell out of giving money to crooked Intuit. Intuit verifies the account, but then Quicken makes me create a new account and then I get an error message:. Data has been downloaded for an account that is not defined in your Quicken data file.

Contact Quicken customer service [OL]. Why not boycott Quicken? Would it not be more beneficial to find a programme that works with the Mac and not fool with Quicken — let them go soak. However I found a free download program that converts qfx files to qif…and then voila it will import and work!

Had problems making it download to the account I wanted but if anyone else is stuck like I was this may be able to help you. BID as instead of I went through that tech support nightmare four years ago — Bank of America said it was an Intuit issue. The missing piece was the extra fee the greedy buggers charge..

Now it makes sense. Works great once you set it up. There is a big setup time as you train QIFMaster on how to read and then export the transactions in the data file.

But once you do that, it makes things really quick. I tried letting it run on auto a couple of times, but I prefer to manually review each entry as QIFMaster converts it for the small things getting the date right. I appreciated the article MacWorld did showing alternatives to Quicken.

I want a viable alternative to Quicken. I need to look at iBank again and check out Moneydance…. Now, if only Intuit had not bought up ItsDeductible! Quicken advises me that the only solution is to purchase … yeah right. I can think of several other solutions that does not invlove Intuit.

I have Quicken Deluxe for Windows. The last time I was able to do this was in Nov Here is how it happens. Then a message from FI 1 really it from intuit. Please try again later. After that, whenever I navigate to and click on a QFX file for FI 1, Quicken does not connect thru the internet, and only the 2nd message appears.

Here is how I recovered from this unfair and unethical action of Intuit. I restored 5 files Q3. I download QFX files onto my computer hard drive as before. I instructed my firewall to block Quicken QW. Another way to block Quicken from connecting thru the internet is to disconnect the internet cable or the phone cable from your computer before opening Quicken for importing the QFX file. Then perhaps an uninstall and reinstall of Quicken might work.

This is speculation on my part as I have not tried it. Project links Homepage. Maintainers t Oh, let me see As you see fit. With null sweat. And that feeling of impending doom. But the most great feature is hacks. It can be nested, it can be overridden, it poisons the call stack and it cleans up after itself at the end of the block. Ain't that nice? You never know what it will be on next access. But hey, any decorator is a custom modification, what did you expect?

And how exactly is that a plugin system? Write some code. Think of a new aspect, like logging. Wrap around entire functions to add more logging. Modify classes if you want to.

Enjoy your pluggable, replaceable, separated logging without polluting the original code too much. Write more powerful and game-changing modifications without touching the main code. Stack, nest and apply multiple hacks Define their 'scopes' flexibly.

Don't break original object's contracts without a good reason. What else do you need from a plugin system? Setuptools integration for plugins autodiscovery, right. It is planned for future releases though.

Pull requests are welcome! So what is the plugin interface? Plugins need a rigid interface! How unbearable.