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EACopyMT5 Manual PDF
EACopyMT5 Manual PDF
EACOPY MT5
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EACOPY MT5
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For example, you can copy an indicator or EA into multiple MT5 installations simply by
right-clicking over it in Windows Explorer; choosing EACopyMT5 from the Send To list;
and then choosing which installations of MT5 to copy into.
(EACopy is not a trade copier. If you are looking for a trade copier, please see
http://www.fxblue.com/appstore/2/mt4-personal-trade-copier)
EACopy is provided with a simple installer which automates the set-up process. After
installation, you should see an entry for EACopyMT5 when you right-click on any file or
folder in Windows Explorer.
You can uninstall EACopy using the link which is created on the Windows Start menu.
1.3 Licence
Unless otherwise specified in writing by www.fxblue.com, this software is licensed for
personal use only. You are not allowed to distribute it to other people, regardless of
whether or not money is changing hands. You only have a licence to use this software if
you, personally, downloaded it from www.fxblue.com
The software is provided entirely at the user’s risk, and you should check it thoroughly
before deploying it on computers trading live money. www.fxblue.com accepts no
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responsibility whatsoever for any loss of any kind caused by installation or use of the
software.
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2. Using EACopy
N.B. After using EACopy, you will normally need to restart any copies of MT5 which are
already running. The Navigator in MT5 will not update to show the new files until MT5 is
restarted, or until you right-click over the Navigator and choose the “Refresh” option for the
section which has been updated.
The EACopy software will then appear, and you simply need to choose the installations of
MT5 to copy into, and any options – particularly the location such as the MQL5\Indicators
directory.
If you want to copy multiple files from the same directory then you can simply select more
than one file in Windows Explorer and then choose Send To.
If you want to copy different types of files at the same time – e.g. both EAs and indicators –
then you can do the following:
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This will then copy all the contents of C:\MyFiles into the MQL5 subdirectory of MT5,
putting C:\MyFiles\Experts into MQL5\Experts; C:\MyFiles\Indicators into MQL5\Indicators
etc.
Therefore: if you want to copy all the EAs, indicators, scripts etc from one installation of
MT5 to another, you can simply do the following:
Use Windows Explorer to go to the MT5 directory which you want to copy from
(e.g. %appdata%\MetaQuotes\Terminal\abcdef)
Right-click over the MQL5 sub-directory; choose EACopyMT5 from the Send To
list; and choose another installation of MT5
You can also run EACopy without first choosing which files you want to copy, i.e. without
choosing files in Windows Explorer and clicking on Send To.
EACopy’s setup creates an entry for the app in the Windows Start menu. If you use this link,
EACopy starts up without any files pre-selected. You can then choose which file(s) or
directory you want to copy using the “Choose file” or “Choose directory” buttons.
You simply tick the copies of MT5 which you want to install into. You can select all the
listed copies of MT5 using the “Select all” button, and you can invert the current selection
using the “Invert” button. (Therefore: to clear all the ticks, click on “Select all” and then click
on “Invert”.)
If there are installations of MT5 which EACopy does not find automatically, you can add
them to the list using the “Add MT5” button. You need to choose the base directory of the
MT5 installation (the directory which contains terminal.exe/terminal64.exe).
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Any installations of MT5 which you tell EACopy about, using the “Add MT5” button, will
be automatically remembered in future.
You can create stored lists of MT5 installations. For example: you can create separate stored
lists for your demo and live copies of MT5. You can then quickly copies files into either your
demo MT5 installations or your live installations by choosing the corresponding option from
the drop-down menu.
You create a stored list by ticking the MT5 installations you want, and then clicking on the
“Save list” button.
If you no longer need a stored list you can delete it by selecting it from the drop-down menu,
and then clicking on the “Delete list” button.
You need to tell EACopy where inside MT5 it should put the files. For example, if you are
copying an EA then you should choose MQL5\Experts. If you are copying a script then you
should choose MQL5\Scripts. If you are copying a custom indicator then you should choose
MQL5\Indicators.
If you are using a directory structure to copy EAs, indicators and scripts at the same time,
then you should choose “MQL5” from this list.
EACopy will attempt to auto-detect where files should be copied to. For example, if you
select an indicator .ex5 file, EACopy will automatically set the Location option to
MQL5\Indicators.
(If you don’t know what “portable” mode is for MT5, it is best to ignore this option.)
MT5 can use two different locations for its files such as EAs and indicators:
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A “portable” directory, where EAs etc are stored in a subdirectory of the main folder
which contains terminal.exe/terminal64.exe.
You can use this option to choose whether EACopy updates the standard file locations, or the
“portable” directory structure, or both.
You can choose whether to update files which already exist inside an MT5 installation. There
are four options:
Copy all files. All the selected files are copied into the MT5 installations.
Copy missing files only. Files are only copied if they do not already exist in the MT5
installations. Any existing files are not overwritten.
Copy existing files only. Files are only copied if they do already exist in the MT5
installations; the process only overwrites any existing files and does not create new
ones.
Copy newer files. Files are only copied if they do not already exist, or if the version in
the MT5 installation is older than the version being copied. (Age is determined using
the last-write time recorded by the Windows operating system.)
You can tell EACopy not to copy any .mq5 or .mqh source code files. For example, if you are
copying a directory structure which contains both the source and compiled code for several
EAs and indicators, you can use this option to tell EACopy that it should not copy the .mq5
source files.
At the end of the copying process, EACopy will display a count of the number of files
successfully copied. You can view a log of all its activity by clicking on the “View log”
button.
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3. Command-line parameters
You can specify command-line parameters for EACopy in order to pre-select options, or even
in order to do a completely automated and silent copy.
For example, the following command line will copy the indicators MyIndicator1.ex5 and
MyIndicator2.ex5 into two installations of MT5, and will not display any user interface or
message boxes unless an error occurs:
%appdata%\microsoft\windows\sendto\eacopymt5.exe c:\temp\MyIndicator1.ex5
c:\temp\MyIndicator2.ex5 /mt5:c:\mt5\broker1 /mt5:c:\mt5\broker2 /dest:MQL5\indicators
/autorun:silent
The following example will copy everything in the directory C:\MyEAs into two installations
of MT5, doing the copy automatically but not terminating afterwards (autorun=yes instead of
autorun=silent):
EACopy is installed into the Windows SendTo directory. You can either run it from there, as
in the example above (%appdata%\microsoft\windows\sendto), or you can copy the
EACopyMT5.exe file into another location and run it from that instead.
You specify what to copy: either one directory, or one or more files.
You specify some, all, or none of the following options. Any options which are not
specified will have their usual defaults, e.g. copying in AppData mode rather than
portable mode
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The option /autorun:silent tells EACopy to do the copying and then shut down afterwards. If
the copying is successful then the process is entirely silent: EACopy’s main window does not
appear, and there is no success message at the end of the copying. However, if an error occurs
then EACopy will display that in the usual way.
The option /autorun:yes tells EACopy to do the copying, but then to leave its main window
open instead of terminating. In other words, /autorun:yes does the copying automatically, but
leaves EACopy running so that you can inspect the log.
In order to use the /autorun option you must specify a file or directory to copy, and you must
specify at least one installation of MT5 (i.e. the /mt5 option).
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