Metastock 7.02 Upgrade (More progress)

["Ron Stockstill" <stocks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As you know, I have encountered several problems when using the upgrade
from 6.52 to 7.02.  It appears one should test all the formulas to be sure
they
are still working before proceeding.

I now have got all the formulas converted.

I finally had to reinstall the upgrade for the third time to get the
Metastock experts
to work that come with 7.02.  My custom experts except for one worked now as
well.  So I deleted the one in 7.02 that was not working.  I switched back
to 6.52a
and exported the expert and re-imported using the 7.02 version.  This still
did not
resolve the binary header corruption problem.  Finally, I edited each little
piece of
the expert in 7.02 and this seemed to fix the data corruption problem.  So
now all the
experts seem to have been converted.

Next, I am turning my attention to the system tests.  I noticed several of
the
system tests were not converted.  Same goes for explorations.

I would recommend that anyone upgrading do the following before
installation:

1.  check all formulas to see they still work.
2.  check all system tests to see they still work
3.  check all explorations to see they still work

After upgrading:

1.  Verify all formulas were converted (recall I had 107 formulas that
failed to convert).
2.  Verify all system tests were converted
3.  Verify all explorations were converted.
4.  Verify all templates were converted. (I noticed that some templates were
not copied as well).
5.  Test before/after upgrade that you get the same values for calculations.

This implies that you are installing the new version 7.02 in the program
file subdirectories and the old version
was under the Equis subdirectory.  This was my case and I did have
additional backup
just in case.

Once this is completed, I will start testing the bugs I reported to see if
fixes have been applied.

Thanks,


Ron Stockstill