First of all I know this is completely off topic for this blog, please bear with me if you don’t care about this. Secondly I know this is  probably a pretty obscure problem.  But I searched high and low for the answer and never found it all in one place.   So I thought I would share it here for anyone who is having the same issue.

The first step is that you have to trick UMB into thinking that Moneydance is actually Quicken.   For Mac (and probably linux — for windows I dunno how to do this, maybe the registry?) you do this by adding the following:

  ”ofx.app_id” = “QWIN”
  ”ofx.app_version” = “1100″

  Name: UMB (this is just your own thing so name it what you want)
  OFX Institution Org: UMBOFX
  OFX Institution ID: UMB
  OFX Connection URL: https://ofx.umb.com

References: http://ofxblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/ofx-fi-details-for-umb-bank/


I hope this is helpful to some other people out there who like moneydance and don’t want to change banks or software. Oh and if this breaks your computer or messes up your online banking or anything I am not responsible, yada yada yada… I did the above and things seem to work for me. Your mileage may vary.

I am about as big of an apple fanboi as you are going to find. But this is getting ridiculous. Why is it that a point release of a flippin browser requires a a frickin restart? This isn’t Windows for God Sake.

I am getting very very close to kicking blogger to the curb and going back to wordpress or moving to squarespace or something. The comments and authentication problem I have been seeing with blogger in the last few days are infuriating! It doesn’t recognize I am logged in even after I sign out and log back in. It rejects comments, simply refreshing the page and ignoring the input. It doesn’t let me paste into the comments, seriously? How does that even happen? Sorry I’m ranting but blogger is really annoying me these days.