If I can jump in here I would like to learn more about OFX Direct Connect with 
GnuCash.
Does such automatically determine what transactions occur at the bank that are 
not in GC...And then automatically update GnuCash?
Or what?
Thanks.

    On Monday, May 18, 2020, 12:35:10 PM EDT, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> 
wrote:  
 
 

> On May 17, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Hershey <hers...@triad.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm new to Gnu and am having issues setting up online downloads.
> My first attempt is Wells Fargo and I get a 2000 error message.
> The Tutorial show Wells Fargo in its example but I've also seen this
> statement on the web: Wells Fargo has switched to OFX Web Connect. GnuCash
> doesn't support this authentication.

That last sentence is your answer, but perhaps you need some more detail. There 
are two ways of connecting to a bank for OFX online communication, OFX Direct 
Connect and OFX Web Connect. The former collects your user name and password as 
part of the online session and the latter has you log in to the bank's website 
and launch the OFX session from there. The way that the bank's website connects 
to the financial software is proprietary to Intuit, the makers of Quicken, so 
that it works only with their products. GnuCash is able to work only with OFX 
Direct Connect.

Regards,
John Ralls
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