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The list of stocks that are selected for off-hours caching are saved to the 📄 stocks.txt file in this folder both when the service is shutting down and when off-hours end:
📁 C:\ProgramData\Bannister Lake\Xignite Cache
If already you have a list of stocks that you want to use from another machine or say a copy of the ticker stock list - you can manually edit this file and when the service is restarted started - it will read the list and start caching all stocks in the list. See details in the next section:
Manually Edit the Stock List
To manually edit the list of symbols in the data file 📄 stocks.txt
Create a copy of the file
Edit it by adding and removing symbols as desired - one symbol per line
Stop the cache service (it will save it's current list to the data file)
Overwrite the existing data file with your modified copy
Restart the cache service
The cache app will start with the new list of stocks
Re-open the Cache stocks window to see the updated list in the client app
Command Line Control
The service can be stopped and started using windows command line statements:
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