First, are you sure you lost them? IF you deleted them you may be able to restore them from the Recycle Bin. But before you go looking there open AmiBroker, go to File/database settings and find where your database is stored, its path and name. Use MyComputer to open the folder using the path you found above to see if that contains the database. If that database doesn't exist look in the AmiBroker folder, typically in C:\Program Files\AmiBroker and look for the name of the database there. If you find the database open the folder and look in one of the alphabetic files to see if the symbols are there, like open the A folder and see if it has symbols in it. If symbols exist there and the size of the file is not 1KB you have the data but you may have lost the path in AB. Make sure the path is what you expect for your database. IF not change the path to the database folder in Tools/Preferences/Data, your default data path. If the data is really there you may have gotten your database back if the path got messed up. This can happen if you create a new database and make it the default.
Else you may have to start over, create a new database and download the data from Yahoo or wherever you go the data in the first place. You just ran into a good reason to back up your database periodically. But with broadband it is pretty fast to just download the data rather than copying the database even though the latter is much slower. One reason is that you get updates to the data, corrections, splits, etc. I download data from yahoo about once a year just for that reason. Barry --- In [email protected], "matrix10014" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > My computer blew up and I lost all of my AFL files,and I am not the > worlds greatest programmer..Would someone be kind enough to post the > code to properly build the Sector, Industry, Stock heirarchy using > ATC.A user had previously helped me with a code that differed from the > manual.If it helps,I use Quotes Plus EOD data. > > Happy Holidays, > > Allan >
