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[EquisMetaStock Group] Re: utility to rebuild MASTER and EMASTER files?



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Perhaps Mansoor's MetaStock data utility at http://www.geocities.com/
mimansoor may be of help here, but generally, once you lose your data 
master files everything is practically gone (specially symbols & 
security names).

Anyway, it pays to regularly save all MetaStock data - the Computrac-
format Master data files are one of MetaStock's Achilles' heel.


jose '-)
http://www.metastocktools.com



--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "James Cooley" <laptop4u@xxx> 
wrote:
>
> Is there a utility to rebuild MASTER and EMASTER files from the .DAT 
> files? I thought it was in the Downloader, but no luck.
> 
> My computer barfed while saving an update from DLWIN though the DAT
> files appear okay. Scandisk, or its equivalent in Win2K, ate
> most of the master and emaster files in my data directories.
> 
> Fortunately, I recently copied all the data to my new laptop, so I'm
> not too bent out of shape, but it's an interesting question.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim






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