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Ron,
Your email didn't mention if the internet data you receive consists of
more than the 55 securities you intend to use in "DJ30" and "Magic25"
but I'll assume you receive data on more than 55 securities.
Sounds to me like you need to start from scratch again, the first
objective being to convert the data you receive to Metastock format. The
second objective then is to organise the securities into the folders you
want. Try this and see if it works with your internet data:
1.Create a folder under "Equis" and say, name it "Stocks". Then go
through the convert procedure and make Equis\Stocks your destination
folder.
2.Go into OPTIONS, DESTINATION and tick as per previously but don't tick
"traverse destination folders".
Hopefully this will convert ALL the data you receive to Metastock format
however many files that may be.
3.If this has worked you can now create in Explorer two new folders
under "Equis" being "DJ30" and "Magic25".
4(a)Go back to the Downloader and copy from "Stocks" to "DJ30" the 30
files you want. 4(b) Then copy from "Stocks" to "Magic25" the 25 files
you want. This will establish the folders and files for future
conversions.
5. When you come to convert the next day's data and subsequent days do
it in two runs. The first run use destination folder "Equis\DJ30" and
the second run use destination folder "Equis\Magic25". With both runs
CREATE NEW FILES and TRAVERSE DESTINATION FOLDERS should be unticked.
The Downloader will show errors but these errors are unimportant as they
will only be errors of files which have not been copied into each
applicable folder and so don't matter. The files you previously copied
into the two folders should accept the new data and append it to each
file.
If this has worked for you this is then the procedure you need to carry
out each day. The original folder and data in "Stocks" can be deleted if
desired.
I hope this helps as it works for me.
Good Luck....Ian Burgoyne, Melbourne
Jan Diederik wrote:
>
> I don't think it's a stupid question at all.
> I have the same problem as you, and still haven't figured out why The
> Downloader isn't converting the way it should. The workaround I use is very
> simple, but "labor-intensive". I convert the ASCII file to each directory
> separately, so I hope you don't have a lot of directories or have a lot of
> ASCII files to convert each day :-(
> I think that you made the right settings, but The Downloader is not
> functioning the way it should.
> I also have version 6.0.
>
> Regards,
> Jan Diederik
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ron Schuck
> > Sent: Saturday, July 11, 1998 2:39 AM
> > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: A Stupid Question . . .
> >
> >
> > I know for the majority, this is a stupid question, but I just can't
> > figure it out as to what I am doing wrong. I have just started to use a
> > program which gets my stock quotes from the Internet. It exports a file
> > in a format that MetaStock would be able to import.
> >
> > And now the fun begins, I am running MetaStock 6.0 with the downloader
> > 6.0. I have tried to update my files, but I have to be doing something
> > wrong. I just don't know what I am missing.
> >
> >
> > I am using the Convert portion of Downloader, For the Source, I have the
> > name of the ASCII file, for the destination, I have listed MetaStock as
> > the file type, and for the folder I have "C:\EQUIS\DATA\STOCKS ( my
> > folders I created are under the Stocks sub-directory, called Dj-30, and
> > Magic-25 ). Under options, for the destination, I have checked
> > TRANSVERSE and APPEND DATA to end of file.
> >
> > The result is all data in the ASCII file does not convert. It shows as
> > total errors, under details, the message is " Unable to create
> > destination file. "
> >
> > If I check off the option create new files, then under the sub-directory
> > of STOCKS, I will see folders created from A to X with the data files in
> > each one.
> >
> > After several hours of frustration I could use any help from the group,
> > once again I apologize for the stupid question, but I am out of ideas.
> >
> > Thanks In Advance
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > e-mail nite_owl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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