Good morning you all,
I have a problem with importing data from IB. I have been doing it always like this but since the last update it is not working.
The problem is when I try to import from a file, after selecting the file, it does nothing. It is like I did not select the file.
I have been doing it like this several years and I had no problems till today.
Any thoughts?
What file type is PP(1)?
It is the file that you get when you do a flex query in Interactive Brokers ( it is a .xml). I have been using that same file for years till today.
And that is probably the error. The file you are showing isn’t a XML file.
If you have a look into your screenshot: type: html.
It is a .xml file
I have been doing it like this since I started using Portfolio Performance. It is the format that Interactive Brokers gives you.
I update the data in the PP every other week, and today when I opened the program it asked for an update. I did it and now it is when it seems that it does not work.
Then please open the file with a text editor and show me the first few lines. Your screenshot says PP(1) is of the type: Microsoft Edge HTML Document and HTML isn’t XML.
This is the fille I was trying to import
I created a new flex query in Interactive Brokers and now it is working. But the new file has the same information at the beggining.
Thank you for help.
That’s really strange, because it’s really looking like an XML file from the structure. Maybe Windows isn’t getting the type correct, because the XML headline is missing.
I’m glad it is working now!
Type info is kind of useless in Windows:
I also don`t understand why the default is to hide known file extensions. I always turn on “show file extension”, when I setup a new Windows machine, because I want to know which kind of file type I`m about to open.
You’re right, I also turn that on. But I wasn’t aware that the type indicated on the hover information isn’t the same! Thank you for the learning moment!
