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Mulitple instances on same PC

Philippe Sudan
asked this on January 07, 2011 08:10

I am trying to run multiple instances of 10.3.6 based on articles 121760.

Have copied the MarketDelta working directory in the user profile and named it MD2. I have changed the configure.txt file in the new instance in program files to use the working directory MD2. But when I start the 2nd instance it keeps using data from MarketDelta working directory (ie 1st instance) and not MD2.

I have tried to put another name in the configure.txt just to validate that it uses that variable. If the folder does not exist I do get an error saying that the folder does not exists and MD can not start.So it seems to recognize the variable, but does not make use of it.


Anybody running multiple instances in 10.3.6?
 

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Andrew Stoeckley
MarketDelta LLC

Hi Philippe,

Please indicate what operating system you use, and paste here the config file line that you are using.

January 07, 2011 11:49
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Philippe Sudan

Windows 7

January 07, 2011 12:31
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Philippe Sudan

Here is the config line

VistaWorkingDirectoryName=MD2

January 07, 2011 12:33
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Andrew Stoeckley
MarketDelta LLC

Hi Philippe,

I have discussed this with the product developers, and will update our article on this subject next week.

The configure variable is now named WorkingDirectoryName, since Vista has been surplanted by Windows 7, but the software will allow the word Vista to be prefixed, in fact, MarketDeltaWorkingDirectoryName=xxxx should work just as well. To keep it simple we just use WorkingDirectoryName.

The configure.txt file that must contain this line is the one that resides in the admin folder where the application executes (in C:\Program Files\...), not the admin directory in the actual working directory folder that resides in the C:\Users\username\... folder.

January 07, 2011 20:40
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Philippe Sudan

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the follow-up I have modified the config file accordingly but it still use the wrong working directory. See attache

January 08, 2011 01:16
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Andrew Stoeckley
MarketDelta LLC

I will try to replicate your setup as time permits, and reply again here. Multiple instance support is low priority, but I will test it at some point this week. Thanks for your patience.

January 10, 2011 11:01
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Philippe Sudan

I appreciate it, no rush.... Thanks for ongoing support!

January 10, 2011 11:22
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Andrew Stoeckley
MarketDelta LLC
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I have updated this article with an important addition to the process:

http://support.marketdelta.com/entries/121760

There is a datapath file that you must delete after all the config file changes are made.

January 10, 2011 14:05
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Philippe Sudan

Great stuff, seems to work. Thks!!

January 10, 2011 14:36
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