Please VOTE : QM: backfilling gaps in data

It is a real pain and wastes a lot of time when you discover that certain data had not been downloaded by MC (from IB) (for some reason) and all your work should be thrown away.

I assumed that MC scans for gaps in the data and tries to download those missing but discovered this not to be the case. And then found the following 'disclaimer" in the docs:

https://www.multicharts.com/trading-sof ... ultiCharts
''Important information: When the software requests historical data from a data source’s server, the returned data is stored locally in the database (TS data can be either saved or unsaved depending on the specific setting). If a data vendor doesn’t return historical data for whatever reason, a so-called “empty interval” is recorded in the database, so MultiCharts will not fill the gap when the missing data becomes available on data source end (you can check what data is already stored in the database by making a right-click on the symbols in QM and selecting "Edit Data..."). In this case customers should reload the data manually in MultiCharts: new historical data for the specified period will be requested; previously stored data and empty intervals will be replaced by new data from the server and saved in the local database.''

I believe marking intervals "empty" to NOT (!) download data is an erroneous approach and a very costly one to a trader.

MC should be smart enough to recognize situations when it is clearly just a 'this-time" error, (e.g. data exist before and after the interval") and try to re-download specifically such periods !

At the very least, this must be an option.

https://www.multicharts.com/pm/public/m ... es/MC-2260

I have noticed a setting in IB's Profile under Data Sources called "Download historical data\ Don't request data for empty periods".
Checking it on/off did not result in an attempt to re-download missing data.

Would be really great to make this checkmark do what it is seemingly supposed to!
(if redownloading by default is - for some reason - not possible/desirable).

Please consider.