Re: Trendlines causing problems

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In Reply to: Trendlines causing problems posted by Dan Stahler on December 02, 2001 at 02:58:15:

: From the installation of the version that started using trendline I have had the following problem:
: I put a trendline in the Portfolo graph. The trenline can not be deleted and has formed multiple trendline entries in the window for editing trendlines. When I try to edit or delete the trendline(s) the computer freezes as though it was processing some information.

: I tried to load my portfolio in the latest version, 5.3. The porfolio I use really acts wierd. Certain investments won't show up and the same problem with ttrendlines. I expect that the trendline glitch is worse in the new versioin.

: What do you advise? I would like to clear up the trend line problem and install the new version.

: Dan

Hi Dan,
In versions prior to 5.3 any "portfolio" trendlines would get duplicated
each time you re-opened a portfolio in the same FM session. If you have many
of them, it may take a long time to delete them through the FM interface.
You can either re-create your portfolio (by just opening the investments and
re-saving the portfolio), or you can edit your portfolio file. The portfolio
file is a text file, and has the extension .mm4.

Open the .mm4 portfolio up in a text editor, such as notepad, and towards the
bottom you will see a section for portfolio trendlines:

[PTRENDLINES]
1
11,3,2001,11,4,2001,122.000000,0.000000,1,1
[ENDPTRENDLINES]

In the above example there is 1 portfolio trendline in this portfolio. You
probably have many more. If you edit this section to look like the following
you can erase all your portfolio trendlines:

[PTRENDLINES]
0
[ENDPTRENDLINES]

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley

Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP
/XP

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