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Posted by Mark on April 25, 2005 at 10:34:26:

In Reply to: PC migration posted by Keith Pennington on April 25, 2005 at 05:44:52:

: Hello Mark,
: I recently had to upgrade my hard disk and Im using my old one for storage. My portfolio's are on my old Hard disk and Ive reinstalled FM, but my old portfolios cant seem to be read. When I attemp to open them, a black window titled 'Main' opens and closes but then there is nothing. Can you help
: Best Regards
: Keith


Hi Keith,

Portfolios store the relative path to their investments. I'm guessing that your investments were stored with their full paths, so now that they are located on a new drive the portfolio can't open the investments, as they aren't located there anymore. You can do a couple of things:

1) Copy all the investments/portfolios to their original locations, like if they were on the C: drive before, copy them back to the C: drive in their same folders.

2) You can use "File / Open Investments..." and open the investments rather than the portfolio, and then re-save a new portfolio.

Also, you may want to check out our tips for transferring to a new computer:
http://www.fundmanagersoftware.com/newcomputer.html

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP/2003




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