Re: copies of .dat files

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In Reply to: copies of .dat files posted by Jan on January 15, 2005 at 08:16:30:

: When I go to "open investments", my .dat files have several copies of each investment. I do not know how they got in there and I would like to know how to delete them and if I will cause a problem by doing so. When opening an investment for a portfolio, these copies make it cumbersom to find an investment.

Hi Jan,

By "copies" do you mean investment names with the same symbol in them? Like,
maybe IBM.dat, IBM1.dat, etc? You can't have the exact same filename more than
once in a particular folder. Each time you create a new investment you will
be prompted to save to a *.dat file. The other way new investments can get
created is automatically when you retrieve transactions, if you have that
option turned on. I'd recommend using the "Portfolio Editor" to figure
out which investment files you're really using. Just select a sub-portfolio
on the left, and look at the "Located In" and "Filename" columns on the right.
If you're using any of these investments then you wouldn't want to delete them.

You can't "delete" a file from within Fund Manager, you can only close an
investment. To actually delete a file you can use Windows Explorer, or something
like that.

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

Replies:

• Re: copies of .dat files Jan 03:27:46 01/24/05 (1)
  • Re: copies of .dat files Mark 13:15:35 01/24/05 (0)