Loading external historical data

[LordNoah]

Hello,

I am having trouble importing some years of historical data for the ES. The data file I have is just called ES.txt
The data looks like:
20240515 000001;5275.25;5275.25;5275.5;1
20240515 000001;5275.25;5275.25;5275.5;1
20240515 000001;5275.25;5275.25;5275.5;1
20240515 000001;5275.25;5275.25;5275.5;1

from the NinjaTrader guides I have read, this is the correct format for tick bid/ask data.
This will load into my NinjaTrader database, but it treats it as a new stock called ES.
How am I supposed to load years of futures data when the name of the contract changes over time? I saw that I need to name the file ES (contract date).txt, but this would not work for how much data I have. There must be a better way that I am missing?

[NinjaTrader_LuisH]

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