Comments on: Copying MetaTrader Chart Settings — Tutorial

By: admin

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:13:43 +0000

No problem. I’m glad to be helpful to fellow traders.

By: Rico

Rico — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:40:07 +0000

Thank you so much, been searching for those files forever!!!

By: fourcandles

fourcandles — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:40:30 +0000

Tha annoying thing is that these ‘virtual’ files are invisible in the search procedure!

By: Andrei

Andrei — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:35:15 +0000

Wow! I didn’t know that Vista could mess with user’s files to such extent. Thanks for telling us that you’ve finally managed to find the profiles.

By: fourcandles

fourcandles — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:06:28 +0000

After more research, have found that this seems to be a Vista issue that does not let read/write files to be stored in the ProgramFiles folder. Instead they are stored separately in \AppData\local\VirtualStore! This applies to Profiles, Templates, etc

By: Andrei

Andrei — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:03:03 +0000

1. There should be profile folders, not files, inside the “profiles” folder of your MT4.
2. Are you sure that you look in the “profiles” folder of your old MT4 installation, which already has some profiles? If you have several installations of MT4 it’s quite easy to confuse them.

By: fourcandles

fourcandles — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:10:41 +0000

I want to copy the profiles from my usual to a new MT4 account but although thet are all listed in the existing MT4 platform they are not shown in the “Profiles” folder. The files must exist somewhere, but I can’t find them. Any suggestions?

By: Andrei

Andrei — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:00:09 +0000

How do you check that?

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:47:43 +0000

I don’t see my profile under the MT4 profile directory? can you please advise.
Thanks!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:35:10 +0000

Thanks for the useful tip, I think many people can use this. It is always a pain to setup all of the charts when you change brokers and have to reinstall MT4.