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Chuck:
Thanks for your suggestions. I did put V 7.02 into a separate directory,
I'll try exporting my indicators etc to a file and then importing them to V
7.02.
Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Engstrom <engstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stocks@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: defect in V7.02
> At 03:44 PM 08/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >I just installed V 7.02. Notwithstanding the assurances of the sales
> >department that almost all of the bugs in V7.01 had been fixed, I find
that
> >it is indeed buggy.
> >
> >Non of my personally created indicators, systems , and wizards were
> >transferred by the "organizer". Most if not all of them are simple (no
> >convoluted mathematical operations). For example one indicator is as
simple
> >as OBV, another is a price oscillator. The personal wizards had all been
> >posted to this listserver and worked quite well with V 6.52.
> >
> >It will be a tedious chore to copy them manually into V 7.02.
> >
> >1. is there a fix for this?
> >
> >2. should I return V 7.02 for refund until this problem is fixed?
> >
> >If something as simple as transferring and converting files is beyond the
> >scope of V7.02, how many more difficulties am I faced with. I have
neither
> >the time nor the patience to spend much time or effort on this.
> >
> >Intuit and Microsoft seem to be able to manage file conversions. The
> >program should have been checked more thoroughly before shipping.
> >
> >
> >Lionel Issen
> >lissen@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> Lionel, Claude, Paula, others upgrading --
>
> Ron Stockstill posted an excellent checklist for upgrading about two weeks
> ago. Unfortunately, I no longer have it, but perhaps he could post it
> again. I followed it pretty carefully and don't seem to have had the
> problems some have had with upgrading of formulas, etc.
>
> I would add these comments to his:
>
> When you check your formulas, explorations, etc, do so by both running
them
> and by opening them with their respective EDIT functions. I found that
some
> of my 6.52 items would in fact run -- or maybe I should say, appear to run
> -- even though they were not properly constructed. But if you open a
> defective formula, etc in EDIT and then click OK, you'll get some sort of
> warning about its defect. That's your chance to correct or delete it. If
> you click CANCEL after the warning, the defect will be retained.
>
> Install your 7.0x in a new directory, not over the old one. That way you
> can go back and use 6.52 until you're sure everything is OK. But be aware
> that opening a security in 7 makes it no longer usable in 6.5 -- so you
> might also want to make a duplicate set of 6.52 data files, which I failed
> to think of.
>
> I didn't let 7.0x convert my stuff en masse during installation. I just
> said no to its offer, and let the installation go to completion. Then I
> opened 6.52 and exported some formulas to an empty directory. Next, I
> closed 6.52, opened 7.02, and imported them. I've now done this several
> times, a few items at a time, and so far, so good, but I still have a lot
> of stuff not yet done. This is undeniably a lot slower than mass import
> during installation but on the other hand, a lot faster than retyping one
> by one. And it helps you to clean house since you'll want to import your
> best stuff first.
>
> Good luck!!
>
> Chuck Engstrom
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