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Hi,

When attempting to retrieve series with identical names but from different disks, Eviews only retrieves one of the series, from one disk, twice.

This bug is probably specific to our way of working with Eviews at the NIER in Sweden:

We have several versions of similar data on different disks/virtual servers (I'm not familiar with the technical details) for confidentiality reasons, and we often want to visually compare the different data.

But the command (this is not the actual command line but it has the same structure):

line G:\data\GDPData.wf1::GDP N:\data\GDPData.wf1::GDP

only produces one line of data from one of the disks. When changing the command line Eviews can even get stuck in retreiving data from the wrong disk. So if I edit the line as follows:

line N:\data\GDPData.wf1::GDP

Eviews continues to show data from the G:\ disk.

Regards,

/Erik.

You can only have one GDP series in a workfile at a time. You can't use the same series from two different sources.

OK, that sounds reasonable. We'll have to work our way around that.

Do you mean that it is impossible to have two series with identical names within the same page or within the same workfile?

It seems that I can create series with identical names in different pages in one workfile, with different contents. But it does not seem to be possible to import data series with identical names from different excel sheets into different pages.

That should be possible, although Excel isn't good with same named files, so if you had one of them open in Excel, it might work funny.