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I think you are an excellent candidate for a ZIP drive.
Manning Stoller
SPDC1@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
> Help!!! I am running out of HD space and don't want to make hardware changes
> at this time. I have 197 meg of data in the 40bonn.dat file, in a 1.2 gig HD
> (partitioned to 600 meg in C and 600 meg in D). I would prefer to not
> repartition my hard drive at this time , either. The C has been trimmed down
> to the essentials and I have only 29 megs left on C drive. D drive has 400
> megs of space but I can't run Omega if I transfer the Omega directory to D
> drive, or at least I wasn't able to when I tried to point and drag the 300 or
> so megs of Omega directory from C to D.
> I have almost 3 years of tick data from the CME and CBOT, and have multiple
> symbols I follow. I collected the first two years of data, real time from
> Signal and then from Bonneville (BMI). The last year I have been downloading
> tick data in the Bonneville format from www.omegaresearch.com. I want to have
> access to old data on the symbols I follow, but I know there is more data on
> the symbols I don't follow ( or is the data for symbols you don't have in your
> server just dumped ). Is there a way to separate the data on symbols I use,
> and dump or store the rest of data, thereby opening up some space on my
> overstressed C drive. Also is there a way I could separate old contracts on
> the symbols I follow and still have access to it. That would accomplish what I
> want ( decreasing 40 bonn.dat file size and thus increasing available C drive
> space ).
> I am sure you can tell from my post that I am computer and Trade Station
> illiterate, but I have learned enough for it to serve my purposes ( up til now
> ) . My trading is uncomplicated and using TS is a like using a Viper to drive
> to the store, only a block away. It will get you there, but there will be tons
> of unused potential on tap. Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Roy
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