[moneydance] Moneydance application reopens when downloading OFX

[Jan-Erik Aardalsbakke]

Sean & Rinaldi,

I have reinstalled Moneydance using the installer as well as tried
adding the application link to OFX file in Firefox. It was set to always
ask what to do. Having the OFX file associated with Moneydance forces a
new session to open up and the only options in the download window in
Firefox is either save or open with.The drag and drop does not work
either. The solution that works so far is to save the file and then
import it. 

Jan-Erik


 Sat, 2008-05-31 at 13:18 -0400, Sean Reilly wrote:
> On May 31, 2008, at 2:24 , Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> 
> > Jan-Erik Aardalsbakke wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am running Moneydance on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. When I have Moneydance
> >> open, and go to my bank to download the OFX file, Moneydance wants to
> >> re-open another sessions. How do I prevent this from happening so I  
> >> can
> >> continue working in the session I have open. Unfortunately my bank  
> >> does
> >> not support direct connection, so I have to go the long way of
> >> downloading the file from by bank's web access.
> >
> > Have you at some point associated mime type application/x-ofx (or
> > x-qif?) in your browser's helper applications with your moneydance  
> > shell
> > script?  Moneydance will (annoyingly) open another instance of the
> > application without first checking to see if it is already running.
> 
> 
> Hi Jan-Erik, another thing that might have an effect is whether you  
> used the linux "installer" or just the bundle/tar.gz download of  
> Moneydance.  If the latter then Moneydance doesn't have a way to know  
> if it is already running.  However if Moneydance was installed using  
> the installer program then the launcher should detect that Moneydance  
> is already running (unless it is somehow broken).
> 
> Another thing you can do is just to drag the downloaded OFX/QFX file  
> into the main Moneydance window, which should produce the desired  
> result.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean