Currency conversion in Calculator
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From: John Hill on 11 Jun 2010 03:53 I recently re-installed Snow Leopard from scratch (printer problems as ususal) I tried to do a currency conversion (from USD to Sterling) in the calculator. It said that the coversion rates were last updated 30/11/2007! And what is more, it won't update when I press the button. According to Get Info, I have Calculator 4.5.2, created and modified 6 July 2009 07:17 "Help", alas, doesn't. Can anyone suggest how to get it giong? Or perhaps tell me that it won't? John. -- Please reply to john at yclept dot wanadoo dot co dot uk.
From: Peter Ceresole on 11 Jun 2010 04:21 John Hill <nemo(a)erewhon.invalid> wrote: > It said that the coversion rates were last updated 30/11/2007! And what > is more, it won't update when I press the button. > > According to Get Info, I have Calculator 4.5.2, created and modified 6 > July 2009 07:17 Not much help I'm afraid, but here, in OS10.4.11, Calculator 4.0.6 updates as it should; automatically, or from the Convert menu on demand. In the mean time, does the Convert widget work okay? -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 11 Jun 2010 04:40 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Not much help I'm afraid, but here, in OS10.4.11, Calculator 4.0.6 > updates as it should; automatically, or from the Convert menu on > demand. Aha! But down the corridor, on Anne's MBP running OS10.5.8 and Calculator 4.2, currency conversion is a Late Parrot. Nothing doing. And the update button is gone. All other conversions seem to work fine, just not the currencies. So it looks as though there is a problem with more recent Calculator versions. Again, the widget converter is working fine. -- Peter
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 11 Jun 2010 06:14 On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:53:50 +0100, nemo(a)erewhon.invalid (John Hill) wrote: >I recently re-installed Snow Leopard from scratch (printer problems as >ususal) > >I tried to do a currency conversion (from USD to Sterling) in the >calculator. > >It said that the coversion rates were last updated 30/11/2007! And what >is more, it won't update when I press the button. > >According to Get Info, I have Calculator 4.5.2, created and modified 6 >July 2009 07:17 > >"Help", alas, doesn't. > >Can anyone suggest how to get it giong? Or perhaps tell me that it >won't? Hm. Mine is stuck on 21/03/2008. Same OS and version as you, but this install had an attack of Migration Assistant so the user accont is about four years old. Checking, calculator doesn't store currency in its own prefs file... I wonder if it's related to the Dashboard "Convert" app? Ah - could be, since mine currently says "Last updated "-2147483629/12/1969 -596:-31". It also says "Currency exchange provided by Yahoo Finance" who I guess have broken the service. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Hey T-Rex! This ice cream cake is delicious!" "Thanks! You don't think it tastes like... *philosophical compromise*?" "Only a little! -- http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1093
From: Peter Ceresole on 11 Jun 2010 06:31
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > I wonder if it's related to the Dashboard "Convert" app? Ah - could > be, since mine currently says "Last updated "-2147483629/12/1969 > -596:-31". It also says "Currency exchange provided by Yahoo Finance" > who I guess have broken the service. My Convert, in 10.5.8, was a clean install with the OS. It's broken. All the other conversions seem to be okay. The Dashboard widget works fine. I'm typing this on an iG5 running 10.4.11, where Calculator/Convert works absolutely fine, including currencies. -- Peter |