v0.6.6 - Loading Data From Text Files

v0.6.6 is now available for download:
http://www.thinkingstuff.com/download.aspx

You can see what was fixed in the Change Log:
http://www.thinkingstuff.com/change-log.aspx

And let's not forget:
http://www.thinkingstuff.com/purchase.aspx

If you are upgrading from v0.6.5, unfortunately you will either need to
- create a totally new database; or
- delete all the Data Manager entries that are for Tick data, and make them again.

This was because of a problem with how the tick data tables were created. They were created with a unique constraint on the date column, meaning no 2 rows could have the same date. But, many ticks can happen in the same second. This error meant the text files containing the historical data from ratedata.gaincapital.com could not be loaded.

I guess that's lucky, because it means nobody would have spent too much time loading the data from those text files. So, what you need to do is re-create those tables, and as I said, that either means you start over with a brand new database, or you go and delete those Data Manager entries and make them again.

Also, it is possible to install v0.6.6 without first uninstalling v0.6.5. However, if you do this, and then uninstall v0.6.6 at some point in the future, not all the files are going to be removed.

Without uninstalling v0.6.5 first, and then uninstalling v0.6.6 sometime in the future, the Windows uninstaller thinks some of those files still belong v0.6.5. And because you're uninstalling v0.6.6, the files that "belong" to v0.6.5 will not be removed.

If that happens, you can simply delete the Thinking Stuff folder. Or, you can uninstall v0.6.5 before installing v0.6.6. It's up to you. Like I said, it's not going to affect your database(s).

If there are any problems, please let me know. I think I even got that Download link working properly, but now you're downloading a ZIP file instead of an MSI file.

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