Re: Changing Portfolio Directory Structure
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Posted by Mark on October 28, 1999 at 20:06:08:
In Reply to: Changing Portfolio Directory Structure posted by Donald Range on October 28, 1999 at 19:43:37:
: I reinstalled Fund Manager on a new computer, and moved my investment and
: portfolio files also. The directory structure for data is different on the
: new machine. I can open the investments OK, but when I try to open a portfolio
: it can't find the investments because it is looking in the drive and path for the
: old computer, both of which are different in the new computer. Is there any way
: to tell the portfolios where to look for the investment files on the new computer?
: I know I can rebuild all the portfolios from scratch, but I was hoping a
: shortcut might be available. Thanks. : Don Range Hi Don,
In older versions of FM (prior to 4.0) portfolios contained the
full path to their investments, which causes the problem you're
having now. In FM 4 and later, the paths are relative to the location
of the portfolio file itself, which solves this problem. Given that it sounds like you have older styled portfolios, you
have a couple of choices. One, you can edit the *.mm4 portfolio files
with a text editor, to update the path of the investments. Second,
you can just re-create the portfolios. This second option is preferred,
and quite easy if you are using FM 4 or later, as you can open multiple
investments at once. From inside the "File/Open Investments..." dialog
you can select multiple investments using the Ctrl and/or Shift keys. Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager for Windows 3.1x/95/98/NT
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