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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leon Nedbalek" <ned@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: [amibroker] Save, Save As, etc.


> I'm almost embarrassed to bring this up, since naming and saving files has
> never been a problem for me and I haven't noticed anyone else mentioning a
> similar problem with AmiBroker, but it's causing me a lot of lost time....
>
> When using Indicator Builder, accessing it either through the toolbar icon
> or by right-clicking directly on an existing indicator, the initial
display
> comes up with the custom name in the left window and the associated file
> details in the right window. Fine. If I click another custom name on the
> left, the right side code changes along with it. So far, so good. BUT if I
> make a change and press the Save Formula button, the Save As window pops
up
> with a totally unrelated file name pre-filled in the box -- apparently the
> name of the last file saved, even in another session on another day. If
the
> fingers get ahead of the brain, it's very easy to click Save or just hit
> Enter before noticing that the file being edited is now being saved under
> the name of another file, thereby overwriting that other file, which is
> probably another custom indicator. Up to now my frequent backups have
saved
> me except in one case, where I had to reconstruct a lost indicator from
> scratch. I've been able to minimize the occurrences of this by reloading
> the file to be edited through the Load Formula button, which then causes
> the proper file name to be pre-filled in the Save As box, but this
requires
> the file to be opened twice -- once with either the right-click method or
> through the Indicator Builder icon, then again with the Load Formula
> button, before making any changes.
>
> Now, here's something else. While maneuvering around trying to repair some
> of these mixups, sometimes an old, previously deleted file has come up in
> the Indicator Builder window associated with the custom name I was working
> on. Where it comes from I don't know, since the AFL folder has long since
> been cleaned of the old file. Like from a history cache somewhere? Using
> the Load Formula button brings up the correct file from the AFL folder and
> all is well again, but meanwhile time has been lost editing an old file
> that should have been long gone.
>
> Anyone have a clue as to what I'm doing wrong or not doing right?
Thanks....
>
> Ned
>
>
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