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A). In DL, if I click Open and then click my MSK|Data folder
-Then most securities within that folder are sorted according to my last given
Tools|Sort|Securities command {eg the list}.
-Any newly added securities will only be found added at the bottom of the list.
-Clicking the details' column bar {=reverse sort} will have the securities temporarily,
for that Open instance alone, sorted alphabeticaly.
-Only another Tools|Sort|Securities command given, would then have the list fully
alphabeticaly sorted for definite.
B). In MSK, if I click Open|Local Data and click my MSK|Data folder
-Then ALL sub-folders stored in that one Data folder will NOT be alphabeticaly sorted,
neither will they be when clicking the details' column bar {=reverse sort}.
C). In MSK, if I click Open|Local Data and click my MSK|Data folder
-Then ALL securities within that one folder will be sorted alphabeticaly,
also when clicking the details' column bar {=reverse sort}, and=upose
to list produced {see A) above} in the DL.
Thus indeed, a minor bug you have found {thanks for bringing this up}:
-both the Open windows(in MSK and in DL) do not function synchronised anymore
{only the DL's Open window is always displaying its contents correctly}
-in which the MSK's Open window is continuously way out of track alphabaticaly(folders)
{folders are always correctly alphabaticaly sorted in the DL's Open window}
-in which the MSK's Open window is continuously way out of track DL-list wise(securities)
{DL's Open window vs MSK's Open window} .
cc - support@xxxxxxxxx (above fix for a return of the user definable MSK "Open"-Function)
Regards,
Ton Maas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vitaly Larichev"
To: "Metastock List" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Equis Support" <support@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: maandag 21 augustus 2000 20:10
Subject: On upgrading Metastock from 6.52 EOD to 7.02 EOD ...
> These are comments on my experience with upgrading Metastock from 6.52 EOD to 7.02 EOD.
>
> Bottom line: it went without a (unexpected) hitch.
>
> Horrified initially by some posts on the List, for quite a while I was a kind of reluctant
> to do it, but when I decided to proceed, I started it with an extreme caution. Notes
> posted by Ron Stockstill, Ton Maas and others encouraged me a lot (thanks!).
>
> A problem I was aware of was that I had a lot of invalid references in my indicators
> (have been forced to delete old ones to make room for new. Why this, how to put it
> politely, unwise limitation?). Though I was certain that indicators' syntax was
> correct, since I used them before. So my plan was to install first 7.02 EOD
> into a new directory (actually, it was a different partition) without taking aboard any
> old stuff from 6.52. Thus, during the installation I refused to the installer's suggestion
> to upgrade my old stuff having got a new, squeaky clean install of 7.02. At that time,
> don't ask why, I forgot about existing "import" utilities in Metastock to use if adding
> old indicators, explorations, etc. Instead ( it's not a recommendation to follow this path
> though it worked, just a description of the way it went by), in Tools/Options/File
> locations/Custom indicators, System Tests, Explorations/ I typed in a path to the
> directory where my old stuff was kept. Then clicked "OK".
> When tried to open Tools/Indicator Builder or others, Metastock protested insisting that I
> first should upgrade all that jazz to 7.02. Hard to argue, so I said OK. This is where my
> problem started to pop up. For each indicator with disconnected links, Metastock would
> open Indicator Editor with warning "No indicator names in the indicator contain this
> text". Since I had no intention to fix this, I just clicked "Cancel" exiting the editor.
> Then it gave me a window "Do you want to cancel the Indicator Builder Update?". I would
> respond with "No". And it kept updating until the next 'invalid' indicator. I repeated
> this procedure for Explorations. Finally, I've got new files Ms70form.dta, etc. in old
> ..\MetaStock directory (mind, it left untouched old Ms65*.* files). Important that all my
> indicators and explorations were updated to 7.02 including those with invalid references.
> Of course, they still don't work, but at least they are there, and I may return to them
> later. The only thing to be done was to move those Ms70*.* files into new ..\MetaStock
> directory, and redirect the path in Tools/Options/File locations/Custom indicators, System
> Tests, Explorations/ back to new ..\MetaStock directory.
>
> So it seems (sure, a tentative feeling) formulas, templates and layouts were converted
> correctly and en masse - no copying, pasting individual items (I don't do system tests
> and experts in Metastock). Also, one of my major explorations on about 1000 stocks
> produced identical lists of stocks on 6.52 and 7.02 . Important that new 7.02 is faster
> than 6.52, indeed. The exploration runs 2 times faster now.
>
> Also, I still can use my old 6.52 with its own non-upgraded to 7.02 indicators, ... . Yep,
> for a while I plan to keep and update MetaStock data files separately for 6.52 if any need
> to fall back arises.
>
> Hope it will help to other upgraders. Good luck.
>
> Cheers, Vitaly
>
> P.S. Can somebody tell me how to cycle securities when viewing charts not in alphabetic
> order of names or symbols, but in the order they are stored in data files ( as seen in
> Downloader) ? It drives me crazy, since first I would sort securities in the way I want
> (say, first a list of Longs, then Shorts). But I get this. Old 6.52 sees them as they are
> in Downloader. Am I dumb with the new program or what?
>
>
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