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To: Chris G. who wrote (2801)	1/1/1998 8:21:00 PM
From: Paul Beattie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Chris, Perhaps I can help. 1. You must download data from QP for each day. Only getting the latest day will not update all previously missed days. In fact, if you "skip" a day, you'll be asked to confirm the missing day. This is OK if it was a holiday, otherwise not: Make sure you download a file for each day. 2. If you have a Metastock chart open in a given MS/data directory, you will not be able to update MS data in that directory. I've found that even closing the chart and leaving Metastock appl. running can still cause me problems. Make sure Metastock is closed when running QP MS output or update. 3. You mentioned deleting the directory (I assume MS/data), and rerunning "update existing database". You'll want to use the MS Output routine to recreate the charts. If you create charts in an empty directory, I expect you'll find that your data is complete. Otherwise, check in QP and see if the data is actually there (Does it show on your QP screen?) Good luck, Paul

To: Chris G. who wrote (2801)	1/1/1998 11:24:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Chris, most problems caused with metastock exporting result from having metastock open when updating ms dirs or having a crash of metastock. When metastock crashes and is terminated it leaves lockfiles in place on all directories that had charts open at the time of the crash. To correct the problem either re-open metastock and each of the dirs that have a chart open. As you access each of these dirs metastock will indicate the lock and you should proceed to remove it. The other solution is to delete the directories. Also note, MS output merges wiih existing data as you already know and also seems to incosistently handle splits when updating existing ms data. For that reason I deleted and re-exported all metastock data each night. I use winbatch to automate this task. Gary re-wrote the MS output in R2 vs. using Equis's DLL as with version 1. There was a bug with R2 not handling splits but have been assured this was fixed in the latest beta. BTW: QP itself will update fine with the charting app open but the app must be restarted before the new processed data will appear... Sean