Indicator not showing up in "Navigator"

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I have installed an MT4 indicator on one of my computers,using the MT4 platform.

It shows up in the Data folder, and even in the "indicators" folder. When I refresh the charts, it does not show up in the "Navigator" section with all my other indicators. I tried on another computer, my non-trading computer, and it works fine on that one.

Any ideas why this may be the case, or maybe what can I try? I realize I could swap computers, but there are reasons for me not to.

Thank you for any suggestions.

 
Make sure that you've put it in the correct (parent) Indicators folder and not into some subfolder like Examples.
 

If you have a lot of indicators installed/compiled for MT4 on your 1st computer (means: more than required for example ... in case there is some limit with the quantity of them ...), or you did not compile the indicator in MetaEditor.

Installation free CodeBase indicators (provided by source code) is the following process: place indicator in "indicators" folder and compile indicator in MetaEditor.

But if you have executable file only (on the way as [name of indicator].ex4) and you can not see indicator in "Navigator" section of Metatrader so - restart MT4 ... if it does not help - ask the author/coder of this indicator for support.

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By the way, the Market indicators should be installed in different way.

 
Eleni Anna Branou #:
Make sure that you've put it in the correct (parent) Indicators folder and not into some subfolder like Examples.

I did install it in the proper folder, but to no avail.

 
Sergey Golubev #:

If you have a lot of indicators installed/compiled for MT4 on your 1st computer (means: more than required for example ... in case there is some limit with the quantity of them ...), or you did not compile the indicator in MetaEditor.

Installation free CodeBase indicators (provided by source code) is the following process: place indicator in "indicators" folder and compile indicator in MetaEditor.

But if you have executable file only (on the way as [name of indicator].ex4) and you can not see indicator in "Navigator" section of Metatrader so - restart MT4 ... if it does not help - ask the author/coder of this indicator for support.

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By the way, the Market indicators should be installed in different way.

Yes. It is a .ex4 file, so I cannot get it to the MetaEditor to try to compile it. I have contacted the site that offered it, but they are at a loss. Chances are, it has to do with my computer, even though it works fine on an even older computer. I may try to delete MT4, reinstall it, and see if that might correct it.
 
Just to give you all an update.
I deleted then reinstalled MT4, and still had the same problem.
I then removed all the indicators, and then added just the FlexiBar indicator, and it worked. I then placed all the other indicators in, and FlexiBar indcator was not in the navigator list again.
I then removed everything, and only put back some of the most useful indicators, and now it seems to be working.
Apparently something about all the indictors, or some of the indicators affected my ability to use it.
It seems to be a good indicator, and I will try it out for a while, and more than likely purchase the license.
Thank you all for your input and ideas.
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