Cannot retrieve historical quotes

[Porsche87]

What was the resolution on this? I have the same problem with DFE from Yahoo. I switched to WSJ and it retrieved it no problem.
Thanks

[Mark]

Hi Porsche87,

In Sheldon's case he decided to just stick with WSJ, so we really never got a resolution in his case.

In looking up DFE on Yahoo, they don't seem to have historical data for DFE.

[Sheldon]

[quote="Mark"]Hi Sheldon,

You can run a backup on one system, and do a restore on the other. See this. This will copy over all your settings/preferences. It really shouldn't be necessary to uninstall and re-install the software.

Hi Mark,
I'm in the process of moving from Win7 to WIN 10. I'm following your instructions
contained in the link you mention. My question is, does this procedure have to be
done for each individual portfolio? I have many on my WIN 7 machine, which will take
days to move to my WIN 10 machine. Is there a way to move them in one swoop?

Thanx, Sheldon

[Mark]

Hi Sheldon,

When you say you have multiple portfolios, do you mean sub-portfolios (like folders) or you have separate *.mm4 files? Typically it works best to just have one *.mm4 file, and have all your accounts in separate sub-portfolios. If this is your situation, you only have to do a single backup/restore, and that moves all your data, including all your sub-portfolios and all the investments in each one, and your preferences.

[Sheldon]

Hi Sheldon,

When you say you have multiple portfolios, do you mean sub-portfolios (like folders) or you have separate *.mm4 files? Typically it works best to just have one *.mm4 file, and have all your accounts in separate sub-portfolios. If this is your situation, you only have to do a single backup/restore, and that moves all your data, including all your sub-portfolios and all the investments in each one, and your preferences.

Hi Mark,
Thanx for your reply. I have many separate *.mm4 files.
Would copying everything from the My_Data folder to the
corresponding folder on my Win10 machine work?

Thanx, Sheldon

[Mark]

Hi Sheldon,

Yes, if all those *.mm4 files are referencing investments in the same folder as the *.mm4 files themselves. If you get any error messages about missing investment files when you open a particular *.mm4 file you will be prompted to locate them. You can do a backup/restore once to transfer all your preferences, and then just copy over your whole data folder.

[Sheldon]

Hi Sheldon,

Yes, if all those *.mm4 files are referencing investments in the same folder as the *.mm4 files themselves. If you get any error messages about missing investment files when you open a particular *.mm4 file you will be prompted to locate them. You can do a backup/restore once to transfer all your preferences, and then just copy over your whole data folder.

Hi again, Mark,
Thanx for your help.
Everything now running tickety-boo!!
Sheldon

[Sheldon]

Hi again, Mark,

Following my previous post re moving from Windows 7 to Windows 10,
I am having a problem with retrieving prices. They take forever. On a
couple of my portfolios with more than 400 investments, it takes close
to 30 minutes to complete, and by the time the last few are retrieved,
the speed shows as slow as .25/second. I opened Internet Explorer and
was able to access a few of the price quotes that were in the FM request
with no problem. In FM requests where Canada SW and other quote servers
are involved, the slowness seems to be with the Canada SW requests. I have
no such problem on my Windows 7 computer.

Is there anything I can do to speed things up?

Thanx, Sheldon

[Mark]

Hi Sheldon,

I tested Canada SW here, and it is retrieving around 1.5 quotes/second. What quote module are you using on your old/new computers?

[Sheldon]

[quote="Mark"]Hi Sheldon,

I tested Canada SW here, and it is retrieving around 1.5 quotes/second. What quote module are you using on your old/new computers?[/quote

Hi Mark,
I'm using 557 on both. I think I found the problem, however, it raises another question.
I switched Windows Defender off and ran price retrieves on my two biggest portfolios.
Like a hot knife thru butter!!! The question I have is, is there a way to do price
retrieves at normal speeds while keeping Windows Defender enabled?

Thanx, Sheldon

[Mark]

Hi Sheldon,

I'm not sure. You might try resetting the default settings in Windows Defender. If that doesn't work, you could also try "Allow an app through Windows Defender", although this isn't normally necessary.