Multicharts and SSD

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Multicharts and SSD

Postby Pipscalper » 19 Aug 2012

Is there a way to seperate the data from the windows aerea. Very important when windows is installed on an SSD.
If not , do you plan to do so in the future ?

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Re: Multicharts and SSD

Postby Andrew MultiCharts » 20 Aug 2012

I am not sure if i follow you, but if you are talking about moving data base files from your C drive to a different location, this instruction should be helpful for you:
http://www.multicharts.com/trading-soft ... om_C_Drive
Please let me know if this is not what you need.

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Re: Multicharts and SSD

Postby evdl » 20 Aug 2012

Hello Pipscalper,

I also use SSD and have my windows and Multicharts on the C drive (=ssd). I did that to get the best performance out of my system and best speed out of Multicharts.

Is there a reason why you don't want Multicharts on the ssd?

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Re: Multicharts and SSD

Postby Pipscalper » 20 Aug 2012

Hello evdl

It is not Multicharts itself that's my worry but the writing of data continuously realtime to the SSD .
SSD's lifetime expectancy is influenced a lot by writing data to the SSD , Reading of data is no problem.
As i understand Multicharts needs to have the data also on the SSD and cannot be separated or am I misinformed ?

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Re: Multicharts and SSD

Postby Pipscalper » 20 Aug 2012

I am not sure if i follow you, but if you are talking about moving data base files from your C drive to a different location, this instruction should be helpful for you:
http://www.multicharts.com/trading-soft ... om_C_Drive
Please let me know if this is not what you need.

If I understand well , the data folder CAN be seperated from the drive where MC is installed , that would solve the problem that to much writeaction is done on the SSD.
Thanks a lot.
I suppose that the problem is solved then.

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Re: Multicharts and SSD

Postby arjfca » 08 Sep 2012

Hello

I'm trying to remove my data from my SSD drive to a hard disk.

I'm following the instruction given by the link
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... om_C_Drive

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The second step is to change the registry key:
Click Windows Start button.
Select Run.
Type regedit.
Press Enter.
Find the Path registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TS Support\MultiCharts\Databases\Portfolio
Change the path to new location of your database files.
Find the Path and CashePath registry keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TS Support\MultiCharts\Databases\Storage
Change the paths to new location of your database files.
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}

My problem is I don't find the path registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TS Support\MultiCharts\Databases\Portfolio

Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE: I don't have
\TS Support\MultiCharts\Databases\Portfolio

I did look under
KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TS Support\MultiCharts, but I don't see the \Databases\Portfolio

I'm loss.....

Martin :)

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Re: Multicharts and SSD

Postby arjfca » 09 Sep 2012

Bump... Any idea?

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Re: Multicharts and SSD

Postby Andrew MultiCharts » 10 Sep 2012

Hello

I'm trying to remove my data from my SSD drive to a hard disk.

I'm following the instruction given by the link
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... om_C_Drive

My problem is I don't find the path registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TS Support\MultiCharts\Databases\Portfolio

Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE: I don't have
\TS Support\MultiCharts\Databases\Portfolio

I did look under
KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TS Support\MultiCharts, but I don't see the \Databases\Portfolio

I'm loss.....

Martin :)
1. What is the version of Microsoft Windows?
2. What is the build of MultiCharts (Help -> About MultiCharts)?

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Resolved: Multicharts and SSD

Postby arjfca » 10 Sep 2012

Hello

I'm trying to remove my data from my SSD drive to a hard disk.

I'm following the instruction given by the link
https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... om_C_Drive

My problem is I don't find the path registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TS Support\MultiCharts\Databases\Portfolio

Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE: I don't have
\TS Support\MultiCharts\Databases\Portfolio

I did look under
KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TS Support\MultiCharts, but I don't see the \Databases\Portfolio

I'm loss.....

Martin :)
1. What is the version of Microsoft Windows?
2. What is the build of MultiCharts (Help -> About MultiCharts)?

Windows 7 64
MultiCharts Version 8.0 Release (Build 5620)

I did succeed to installed it late last night, by looking inside the registry key. I did a search for "\Databases\Portfolio" and I found the wanted key.

I will probably needed to redo all the process because for whatever reason, my data hard disk as multiple file bearing the same name.

Have a good day

Martin

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Re: Multicharts and SSD

Postby Stan Bokov » 10 Sep 2012

For 64-bit Windows I think there's an extra folder in the path - SysWOW64


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