In microsoft.public.money, Pretorien wrote:

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A handy way to find symbols that are no longer good is to configure
in the LastUpdated column with
ChangePortfolioView-> CustomizeCurrentView-> PortfolioColumns.

Group by No Headers. Click on the LastUpdated column header to sort
by that column.

Note securities that have a symbol but do not have a recent update.
Now the reason could be the
Portfolio-> UpdatePrices-> PickQuotesToDownload is not set for that
stock. But it may well be an obsolete symbol. Correct or blank such
symbols.

Another way to troubleshoot is to clear most of the
Portfolio-> UpdatePrices-> PickQuotesToDownload items. If the few
remaining ones (which you should be sure of) work, set more until
you find you have a problem. That way is less good in that things
may work fine with one or more bad symbols sometimes, but work much
more reliably if there are not bad symbols.

I am so happy I FINALLY found to someplace where I could talk to somebody
about my problem.
Money 2004 stopped downloading quotes for the largest file I have of three
on the computer.
The big file is REALLY big so I'll go back to check the symbols because I
have a ton in there for expired and no lomger active options.

If this dousn't do the trick I will be at my wits end.

Pretorien
"Jeff C" wrote:

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It is frustrating--I am having the same problem--three of
my mny files will update stock prices online, the 4th (and
biggest file) will not. I think Dick may be right because
I have a lot of 'old' stock symbols in my transaction history.

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My educated **guess** is that you have a bad symbol defined for an
investment. I'd one-by-one check the symbols for all of the
investments--including watch investments--defined in that file from the
msn.com web site to confirm it can get quotes for them.

"Mike" <mloy[at]bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:utQSc.234$Ji.2[at]bignews4.bellsouth.net...
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Thanks Dick, I have more info now. I run 5 separate *.mny files. Only one
of these has stopped downloading price updates. I tried file salvage,
followed by level 1 and 2 salv.exe folowed by another file salvage on the
misbehaving file with no success. It still won't download price updates and
the other four files will. What now?
Appreciate your help,
Mike

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
message news:OMuO7P8fEHA.3632[at]TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
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I'll assume you meant you purchased M04 in Sep03 and only got quotes with
this version until Nov03.

There is probably something else going on with networking or firewall setup
or what not. M quotes have been less than 100% available/reliable for some
time now. See http://umpmfaq.info/faqdb.php?q=75 for some (maybe irrelevant)
info from a prior time when quotes were being flakey.

"Mike" <mloy[at]bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:P1rSc.78$8I2.13[at]bignews6.bellsouth.net...
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My price updates stopped in Nov03. I upgraded to M2004 Deluxe [purchased
the CD] in Sep04. I've been running M since 1998 with frequent upgrades.
I understand from previous posts on this forum that Microsoft now time
limits the price updates. But -- why did I only get 3 month's worth?
--
Mike
mloy[at]citadelenterprises.com