[moneydance] Release 2008 problem

[Gordon Alley]

I've got build 606 running on an iMac G4 800 with OS X 10.5.2 (I used
LeopardAssist to install Leopard on this old hardware). The Stock Quote
Synchronizer extension seems to be working fine. I didn't need to touch it
during any of the upgrades.
-Gordon

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:24 PM, William Morton <wjmwjm at asisna.com> wrote:

>
> I seem to have encountered a problem with the latest
> Moneydance.
>
> I am running Mondance 2008 (606), using Apple Java 1.50-13.
>
> All this is on a PowerMac G5 running OSX 10.5.2
>
> Updating stock prices fails.  It shows the first stock it is
> trying to retrieve for and then the status line at the bottom
> just goes blank.  Update does not occur.
>
> Suggestions?  I've already gotten onto Yahoo Finance to make
> sure I can still get to it and that works fine from a browser.
>
> Also, accessing the stock price updates has changed from earlier
> versions of MD.  It used to be there was an icon in the top left
> which had as one of the drop-down items Stock Update.  This is
> gone; now you have to use the Extensions and get to it that way.
> This change seems to me to be arbitrary; it just makes things
> different for those of us used to the "old way" and if there's an
> advantage to that I don't see it.
>
> Another minor bitch--the fonts used throughout MD are now smaller
> than they used to be.  This is a strong negative for me; 70-year old
> eyes and cataracts do NOT like smaller fonts!
>
>
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Gordon B. Alley
http://www.gordonalley.com