Report directory overflow

AFL Programming
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I am working on a project where I optimize 10 parameters using "OptimizerSetEngine("cmae");". When this runs It creates 14,500 directors and 170,000 files that took up 2 geg of space in the Amibroker "Report" directory. After running the optimization several times I filled my SSD disk and had a devil of a time deleting the files .

  1. Do I have some setting wrong? These file are not used after the completion of the optimization yet they are keep.
  2. Can I keep these files from being generated?
  3. If I can't keep the files from being generated is there a way to direct them to another disk so the my fast 250G SSD disk does not fill and lock my computer?
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Those files are backtest report folders generated per each Optimization step.

You say that you do not need them so deactivate full report generation in optimization.

SetOption( "GenerateReport", 0);

Or

SetOption( "GenerateReport", 2);

Following modes offered:

SetOption("GenerateReport", 0 ); // suppress generation of report
SetOption("GenerateReport", 1 ); // force generation of full report
SetOption("GenerateReport", 2 ); // only one-line report is generated (in results.rlst file) viewable as single line in Report Explorer

https://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/setoption.html

Also there is a setting in Backtest settings - Report which can be unchecked (if detailed report is unwanted).

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