Hi. Windows (Server 2016) wanted to do Updates, so today (Sunday) I clicked Stop, No to Close Trades, Yes to Stop Trading, exited Zorro, and did the Updates, including the reboot after.

Now Z12 will not Trade. It logs in to the broker, loads prices, prints "Trade: Z12 <date>" and then up pops the "Zorro Automaton has stopped working" window. I have also tried with "- diag", but no additional information is recorded.

The same VPS also runs Z7 (from a different directory) and it has restarted fine.

So, it seems the Z12.trd file has somehow been corrupted? How can I verify this and repair the trd file? Is there a trd utility somewhere?

Thanks.

Maybe a virus?

If it were the .trd you would see an error message, what you had looked to me more like a broken zorro.exe or z12.x. Better reinstall it.

Thanks Petra. Reinstall done. Unfortunately same crash.

FYI: Reinstall above was done into existing directory. Have also now done fresh install into new directory and copied the trd file into it - same crash.

I have also renamed the trd file and Traded Z12. A new trd file is created and Trade starts fine. The problem seems clearly to be the trd file has been corrupted. Is there any utility to examine and/or repair trd files? Or a manual way to examine/fix it?

Its binary, so you cannot look into it easily, but you could load it with loadStatus and different SaveMode flags to check which parts of it are readable.

Thanks Petra. I will see if that gives any clues. Do the SaveMode modes cover the entire contents of a trd file?

Thanks again, Petra. loadStatus crashes trying to load the AlgoVars. Sliders and Trades seem OK.

Now, how can I fix the AlgoVars?!

You could reset the SV_ALGOVARS flag. They will then not be loaded. But that would not work for Z12 where you have no code access. Delete the broken .trd file and close the trades manually.

Thanks @jcl.

Would the code below work? It creates a MUCH smaller trd...