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Sometimes the links created by OLE II do not update. Right click on the
chart and select update links. If you are referring to a chart being
opened and not having the latest data in it, it is probably because the
data vendor is not following the file requirements when writing to the
MetaStock data files. If you have MetaStock for Windows, or The
DownLoader for Windows open when this zip file update is occurring, then
that is why the data isn't available as they are not using our file
library and therefore the information is not being written to the Master
and Emaster files as our library has them locked.
As far as "read only" Master and Emaster files, that usually happens
when you exit MetaStock for Windows abnormally. Are there files in the
data folder that begin with a ~? Those are what is left when an
abnormal termination occurs. If you start MetaStock of The DownLoader,
it will tell you that you are still using the files and when you OK you
will have access to the data.
Equis Support
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teo Soon Bock [SMTP:teosb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 8:59 AM
> To: metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Harley D Meyer
> Subject: Re: New User Question re. MS to Excel
>
> I have encountered a problem in that after I do the linkages between
> MS and
> Excel, all the charts in the directories of the selected stocks for
> the
> portfolio are not updated, although the data were updated. I can see
> the
> updated data in the Downloader, but could not coax it to appear in the
> chart.
>
> My data vendor in Singapore does not make use of the Downloader to
> incorporate the data, but subscribers dial in to its dedicated
> bulletin
> board to obtain the daily updates by downloading a zip file which is
> then
> unpacked and incorporated into the database automatically.
>
> My workaround is to fire up MS 4.5, and using the Data Maintenance
> function, I was able to "adjust" the Last Date to be the latest
> available,
> but this method is tedious even with the help of a macro.
>
> Also, does anyone else encounter problems now and then with the Master
> and
> Emaster file in each data sub-directory? In my case, for some reason,
> the
> attributes of these files in some of the subdirectories became
> read-only,
> instead of the usual archive attribute. What could be the cause of
> these
> changes?
>
> Any and all help will be gratefully accepted.
>
> At 03:01 AM 8/9/97, Harley Meyer wrote:
>
> >You may be stuck with the header and date. But we aren't dumb are we.
> Not
> you
> >or I. So we will use two spreadsheets in the same workbook-sheet1 &
> sheet2. The
> >first one takes the link from MS with the extra unwanted stuff. Then
> we'll
> take
> >the close and link it to sheet2. Which is what we want.
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