Hey Lagrange,
Lagrange » Tue Aug 26, 2014 7:49 pm wrote:Hi guys,
Just tried to install the EA on an account ,new Windows 8 laptop. I already experienced downloaded indicators will not work if the platform is installed in program files, now working fine, but, I can not get the EA running. I placed it in the MQL4 file / experts. Any idea's?
thanks L
Three quick tips to prevent your head from exploding whilst attempting to use Empty4...
1. Never, never, never, never
ever install Empty4 into Pogrom Files, (or Pogrom Files (x86)), but, you already know that
2. From within Empty4, select File --> Open Data Folder... Windows Exploder will open up, and you should see either these folders, (config, history, logs, MQL4, (and a few others), or these ones, (Experts, Files, Images, Include, (and a few others) in the right-hand panel... If you see MQL4 in the right-hand panel, open that folder, and you will find the Experts folder within that... Once you've found the Experts folder, open that up, and drop the EA in there, and Bob's yer uncle! (Well, in my case, he's my old man (father))
3. Always, always, always edit your shortcuts to Empty4 so that the target points to...
"<Your HardDrive>:\<Your Empty4 installation folder>\terminal.exe /portable" before your first run of a fresh installation, so everything our Empty4 installation needs lives somewhere within your Empty4 installation folder. If you have any progs that can open Empty4, you need to add the /portable commandline switch in their setup, (TickStory requires this, whilst "Walk Forward Analyzer for Empty4" by Easy Expert Forex forces this (last time I checked, anyways).
If you want to use the /portable switch for your current installation(s), you first have to...
1. Run it without the portable switch...
2. Select File --> Open Data Folder...
3. Make sure you can see the following folders in the right-hand panel, config, history, logs, MQL4, (and a few others), then select them all, and copy them.
4. Close Empty4.
5. Browse to that Empty4's installation folder, and paste the folders that you copied in step 3 into the installation folder. Just make sure you've selected the correct installation folder, 'cos you're going to over-write everything.
6. Now change all shortcuts to that installation by adding "/portable" (without the quotes) to the end of the Target entry.
Oh, and btw, doing all that is a hell of a lot faster than typing it
Have fun!
Radar =8^)