[amibroker] Re: Pro's & Con's of running Multiple Copies of AB?

["mikelaurataylor" <mikelaurataylor@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am doing that right now.  You don't even need to install a 2nd copy;
just run it a 2nd time and you will get a 2nd instance.   I do what
you say, I have an end of day that I get from yahoo that I do some
scans on while I have an esignal real time version running an AA scan
from time to time.

There are only 2 things to watch for that I noticed.

First, if you use AmiQuote to download it will download to the first
running instance of AmiBroker.  Therefore if you forget one day and
start your esignal first I've had situations where I screwed up my
intraday database and had to rebuild it.  I suggested they allow you
to point to a specific database for end of day downloads to help you
avoid that mistake but they indicated they would not make that change.
  It's easy to make this mistake so just be careful if you download
into end of day.

Second, at one point I had a problem changing indicators and/or
layouts in one version while running things in another version.  I
know they made some changes to deal w/ that but I don't know if these
issues were completely resolved.   

Overall, though, it has worked well for me.

Mike


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Don Lindberg" <dlindber@xxx> wrote:
>
> I am thinking about setting up a second copy of AB so that I can have 
> a RT runinng and collecting data, and still go to the primary copy and 
> work with my EOD databases. Firstly, how do I install a 2nd copy? Just 
> point it at a different base directory during install?  Secondly, are 
> there any problems I can expect with 2 copies running at the same 
> time?  Can I run scripts in both at same time? Will running auto 
> update on one have any effect on other?
> 
> Any advice or thoughts from the group will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Don Lindberg
>