FM adding prefix of my account #s to files...!!??

[L Larson]

Quite a suprise I got-
to see my account numbers of funds tagged onto stock symbols ....with the addition of the holding company name before that. In quite a few years of stumbling thru my finances, I have never had any firm 'slap' my account number onto a file on my computer!!! This does not quite appear particularly cricket or esp safe??
And I must say I have had quite a few accounts in various places......

L.

[Mark]

Hi L Larson,

I assume you're referring to the auto-backup of your investments? When Fund Manager makes an automatic backup for you, it saves the investments as "<sub_portfolio_name_hierarchy>_<investment_filename>". This is to help you recreate your sub-portfolios and put the correct investments in each sub-portfolio in the event you need to restore from this auto-backup. If you don't like this feature, you can turn it off under "Options / Preferences... / Data". Alternatively, you can name your sub-portfolios something besides the account number. It uses the sub-portfolio 'name', not the 'account number', so if you just change the sub-portfolio names, your auto-backups will not contain your account numbers.

[L Larson]

As per my past 'style', at times the verbage of my posts seems to take a negative twist. A half hour after posting the two queries, I said, Uh Oh, maybe I had better revise these, they may have that 'edge' to them, esp the one as to where the _ _ _ _ _ _ did all those account numbers come from...
So all was ok and double thanks for replies!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yes, ,I find that in FM when looking at my individual stocks, the symbol is a green like triangle, which is keyed to opening with Windows Media Player!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is there a global command that will sneak all these back into the FM umbrella????

TIA Lars again....

Three score and ten+, hence the efficiency is much lower than at three score only.........

[Mark]

Hi L Larson,

Investment files have an extension of .dat. It sounds like these are currently associated with Media Player. There isn't a command in FM to change these associations. It must be done through Windows. The method varies, depending on the version of Windows you are using. To set a file association under Windows XP use Windows Explorer and go to "Tools / Folder Options... / File Type". You might search the internet for "instructions on setting file associations under Windows".