Link Between Data Manager Entries and .tsphd Files

"Data Manager entries" and "Price data configuration entries" are used interchangeably.

You create these to tell ATM (a) what prices you want to gather; and (b) how to gather them.

ATM will create one .tsphd file on your computer for every Data Manager entry. And that's where the prices are physically stored on your computer. But that's the end of it as far as Data Manager entries are concerned. They just do the setup - they don't do any gathering.

Gathering is done on the Command Centre window (downloading), File Loader window (loading from text files), or the "Bulk Price Bar Creation" tab on the Data Manager Search window (creating price bars from other prices you have already downloaded or loaded from file).
 

Location of the .tsphd files

Is set by you when you first create the settings file. It can be viewed and changed on the Options window.
 

Deleting Data Manager entries

You are given the choice of whether or not you also want to delete the .tsphd file. So you may have more .tsphd files than you do Data Manager entries. That's fine.
 

Adding a Data Manager entry when there is already a .tsphd file

So you delete a Data Manager entry but choose not to delete the .tsphd file. Then you re-create that same Data Manager entry. The .tsphd file is already there. ATM doesn't overwrite it - it just connects to the existing one.

What this means is, someone can give you their .tsphd file, and you copy it to your price history directory (as set on the Options window). Then you create the matching Data Manager entry, and all that price history will immediately become available for use.
 
See also:

• To transfer data from one ATM file to another
• ATM file extensions