I'm quite aware of the User Guide info. However, given the way I operate (e.g., primarily Tabs without Layouts) I know which formulas are used and filing them in appropriate folders (e.g, Inactive, Test, etc.) is more useful for me. Drag-Drop, for example, is a temporary folder where things don't stay for long before being moved to Custom, Inactive, etc. My "manual" mode does not replace the functionality of the Indicator Maintenance wizard and it is not intended to. Just a simple way for me to keep things where they make sense to me that might also work for others - whatever works comfortably is OK.
Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Tomasz Janeczko To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Free Space for Indicators 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
