MT5 & BackTester Data Dupe? Would Symlink work?

[jacktator]

Hi, I'm a bit new to MT5 & Tester. I'm running a backtest in 'Every Tick Real' mode, and MT5 is downloading data. Give I've selected 5 years of data, so the data's pretty big.

However, from observation(See screenshot below), it seems that MT5 is just downloading data, and copying them twice.

1. Once in Terminal/XXX/bases/ticks
2. Once in Tester/XXX/bases/ticks

So I have two questions:

1. Why twice the disk space?
2. If I create a Symlink from Tester/XXX/bases/ticsk to Terminal/XXX/bases/ticsk, would it work? (Thereby saving disk space?)

Thanks guys in advance.

[Alain Verleyen]

jacktator:

Hi, I'm a bit new to MT5 & Tester. I'm running a backtest in 'Every Tick Real' mode, and MT5 is downloading data. Give I've selected 5 years of data, so the data's pretty big.

However, from observation(See screenshot below), it seems that MT5 is just downloading data, and copying them twice.

1. Once in Terminal/XXX/bases/ticks
2. Once in Tester/XXX/bases/ticks

So I have two questions:

1. Why twice the disk space?
2. If I create a Symlink from Tester/XXX/bases/ticsk to Terminal/XXX/bases/ticsk, would it work? (Thereby saving disk space?)

Thanks guys in advance.

Try it and let us know.