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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chris G. who wrote (1420)	1/10/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: Craig DeHaan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

Chris, I had this persistent error message for 6 months and about gave up fighting it. Then in a moment of unwitting trial and error inspiration I somehow discovered that using "MASTER" as the name of one of my Metastock data subdirectories caused MS and other programs that use the MS format data directories to hiccup with this result. I think it may have to do with the fact that there are MASTER and EMASTER files located within them and the MS data format access programming gets confused (its pretty cludgy by modern standards anyway). When I renamed the suspect subdirectory "BASE" (or anything other than MASTER) all problems vanished. Strange but true.

To: Chris G. who wrote (1420)	1/12/1998 5:19:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 4056

Has anyone had this error signal happen when using the 'open file' and trying to open the 'Data' folder?: "Folder is not Open" I get either a retry or cancel option. Hit cancel and the data folder opens. It also happens when using the 'up one level' icon to when trying to open the data file. Thanks for any help, Chrisg Chris, definitely have seen this with using QP for data. Have no idea what causes it...... Its very annoying..... Sean BTW: Just read the post about MASTER dir. Don't think I have one but will check....