Reopen Closed Investments

[hoop]

Mark,
I have apparently "closed" a number of "sold" investments instead of "hidding" them. Now my portfolio value graphs look really weird. How can I best recover from this poor decision on my part? I wanted to restore my portfolio from a previous date but am having a hard time determining which one to restore.
Thanks
Greg

[Mark]

Hi Greg,

You could either fix it manually, or restore.

Fix manually: Right mouse click on the sub-portfolio where a closed investment needs to be re-added, and choose "Open Investment(s)...". Select all the investment files that should be opened. You can select more than one at a time, but only select those for the selected sub-portfolio.

Restore: Use "File / Restore..." and choose a *.FMB file dated right before you made the change you want to undo. Open the *.FMB file, and choose the restore option "Restore Selected Items Only", and pick the "Portfolio" file only in the "Files in Backup" list. Restore to the original location, and open restored portfolio after restore.

Also, see our tutorial on hiding investments.

[hoop]

Mark,
I made these changes shortly after upgrading to 2018 ver3. I went back to ver2 and everything is fine.
I would simply reopen the closed investments if I knew which ones they were. Is there any type of log file that would show me which ones I closed?
Thanks

[Mark]

Hi hoop,

No, there is no log file that would show this. What do you mean ver3 and ver2? What is fine by going backwards in versions?

[hoop]

I went back to the previous version of FundManager software 2018.15.2 vs the latest version 2018.15.3.

[Mark]

Hi hoop,

Changing the program version should have no impact on your data. Which investment files are open is stored in your *.mm4 portfolio file, and should be independent of program version.

[hoop]

I'm running Fund Manager on a Macbook Pro under WineBottle so who knows what it did when I installed the new version. Probably copied all the files to a new location. I gotta build me a new PC.

[data8504]

I have a possible solution...

Since you're on a Mac (like me, but I run FM in a Windows VM), I suggest you do the following. Launch a terminal then type:

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find . | grep -i \.dat$

This will surely return a lot of false positives, (.dat files that are NOT investments), but contained in this long list should be your actual FM data. For example, in my case:

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...
./Google Drive/Fund Manager/mehiltne_fmdata/HSAFMAGX_1_1.dat
./Google Drive/Fund Manager/mehiltne_fmdata/IAP Fund.dat
./Google Drive/Fund Manager/mehiltne_fmdata/IBM19790668.dat
...

So now you can navigate to that folder:

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cd ./Google\ Drive/Fund\ Manager/mehiltne_fmdata

Then dump the last modified date of each file:

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ls -lt

At the top of this list will be the files most recently modified. That is, investments currently "open." Some ways under here will be filed that are slightly more stale. These will likely be the investments you actually closed.

Perhaps a complex solution, but it should work...

-Matt