Another idea is not to use Drag-and-Drop feature at all. Then you never need Indicator Maintenance Wizard and you always know where exactly each indicator is stored. Instead of right clicking on indicators always use:
indicator pane - r-click - insert linked Then save AFL files from file name box (middle-top in Editor window) or with File-SaveAs. And move them between folders using r-click drag-drop as explained by TJ. If you decide to try this then it's a good idea to get the Drag-Drop folder visible and check from time to time if you didn't drop something there by mistake: preferences - AFL tab - show hidden folders = ON I've been doing this for quite a while and almost forgot that something called Indicator Maintenance Wizard is part of AB. Lester It involvews a bit more work --- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > This is really highly recommended reading in the User's Guide: > http://www.amibroker.com/guide/w_indicatormaintain.html > > The point is that you usually don't know which formulas are used and which > are not. This is especially the case for formulas > in drag-drop folder. > > That's the purpose of IMW - it scans > all hard disks for layout files and checks which formulas are actually used > in any layouts. > You can not replace it with "manual" approach. Also - never ever move AFL > files manually (using Windows Explorer) > - files may be used by indicators and you will break them. Use CHARTS window > instead (RIGHT CLICK DRAG) - as it automatically > updates all references when the location of file changes. > > Best regards, > Tomasz Janeczko > amibroker.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: wavemechanic > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:37 PM > Subject: Re: [amibroker] Free Space for Indicators > > > You might consider a new folder under Formulas titled "Inactive" and even > sub-folders. Put unused indicators in that folder and either forget about > them or delete whenever you are sure they are no longer needed. I prefer > this to the Indicator Maintenance wizard approach. > > Bill > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ken Close > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:24 AM > Subject: [amibroker] Free Space for Indicators > > > I have gone back and searched the messages for "Indicator Maintenance" > and saw descriptions of how to use it but not much else. > > I know how to use it but I have not found any strategies for either > expanding it, or avoiding "inconvenient" loss of an important indicator. > > Now, you might say that if these are unused indicators how can they be > important...but I have numbers of indicators which I do not want to lose yet > I do not want to individually go and look at each one to see if it is a > candidate for deletion. > > Do people keep copies of all of their indicators somewhere outside of the > Amibroker file structure? > > I do not understand this limitation of Amibroker and I hope TJ gives a > brief description of why it is a limitation and what one can do to preserve > multiple hundreds if not thousands of indicator files. > > This is a priority for me right now because I am bumping into the "You > have run out of free indicator space" every other day. I go and run the > Wizard, can't really decide which to delete and delete the unnamed ones and > then several days later, here comes the warning. I should not that the > unnamed list seems to reappear each time I run the Wizard even though I > deleted Unnamed formulas the day before. > > Any comments by anyone who has figured out a reasonably efficient way to > handle this situation? > > Thanks, > > Ken > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.28/672 - Release Date: 2/6/2007 > 10:22 AM >
