Cal thanx for your help. Appreciate it. I will try ofx checker. I guess i'm
stuck using quicken and money until firm goes to both ofx and qfx downloads.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, michelle wrote:

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Do you mean you changed "GLD & SPCL MNRLS" to "GLD SPCL MNRLS"?

Plus you removed the <INTU.BID> line including the number that
follows?

Plus you renamed the file to *.ofx.

And you still have the problem when you do File-> Import of the
modified file? There must well be a second problem in that file.
There is an OFX checker that you could try if those things were not
sufficient.

Cal thnx 4 your help.

here is the text of the file

-snip-
GLD & SPCL MNRLS
-snip-

tried removing it, but the import still fails. i also tried removing the
quicken tags from another post here but no luck

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, michelle wrote:

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Aha! Fortunately that is probably the easiest-to-find error in OFX
files.

The ampersand is a special character as it is used as a lead-in
character for certain sequences.

To make that company name appear as gold&minerals, that should be
replaced with gold&amp;minerals. The OFX specification requires
that. You could change it to gold+minerals, gold and minerals or
whatever before importing. Be consistent for next time.

If you think the company you download from cares, you could bring it
up with them. One of you will learn something in the process. If you
want a spec reference, let us know.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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starts with the ofx tag

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OFXHEADER:100

DATA:OFXSGML

VERSION:102

SECURITY:NONE

ENCODING:USASCII

CHARSET: 1252

COMPRESSION:NONE

OLDFILEUID:NONE

NEWFILEUID:NONE


<OFX-snip-
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Only amersand in docuement looks like its text of my investment
ex:gold&minerals
does this have to be removed?

In microsoft.public.money, michelle wrote:

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Perhaps the file is corrupted.

Does it start with
______________________________
OFXHEADER:100
DATA:OFXSGML
VERSION:102
SECURITY:NONE
ENCODING:USASCII
CHARSET:1252
COMPRESSION:NONE
OLDFILEUID:NONE
NEWFILEUID:NONE

<OFX______________________________________________ ____

or

================================================== =
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?
<?OFX OFXHEADER="200" VERSION="200" some_more_stuff<OFX=============================== =====================

except for perhaps lack of newlines?

Also check for the presence of any ampersand "&" characters.

has anyone figured out a way to import qfx files in 2005. renaming doesn't
work and neither does removing the file tags. i get the same error message.
'the file you are attempting to import appears to be invalid or corrupted.
download again . . or contact your financial institution" I am able to
import this file in quicken so its not corrupt. any ideas?