paul_ruggeasey
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Hi,
Just posting this in case it helps someone who was having the same problem I was..
I have a new Vista laptop and was trying to copy some profiles from Metatrader installed on there. Although quite computer aware, I am new to Vista and was having lots of trouble finding the profiles - on XP they are normally under c:\Program Files\Metatrader xxx\profiles but on Vista that folder contained the original profiles, but none of the modified and saved ones.
I eventually found out that there is a "feature" in Vista which saves application data in a shadow folder (too clever for its own good!) so the updated profiles are actually in a folder which belongs to the logged in user. On my laptop this is
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Metatrader xxx\profiles
The AppData folder is hidden, so you have to change the defaults to make hidden folders visible. After doing this, I found all the lost profiles and could copy them into a shared folder for copying to other versions of metatrader or to other PCs.
Hope this helps if anyone runs onto a similar issue on Vista.
Cheers, Paul.
Just posting this in case it helps someone who was having the same problem I was..
I have a new Vista laptop and was trying to copy some profiles from Metatrader installed on there. Although quite computer aware, I am new to Vista and was having lots of trouble finding the profiles - on XP they are normally under c:\Program Files\Metatrader xxx\profiles but on Vista that folder contained the original profiles, but none of the modified and saved ones.
I eventually found out that there is a "feature" in Vista which saves application data in a shadow folder (too clever for its own good!) so the updated profiles are actually in a folder which belongs to the logged in user. On my laptop this is
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Metatrader xxx\profiles
The AppData folder is hidden, so you have to change the defaults to make hidden folders visible. After doing this, I found all the lost profiles and could copy them into a shared folder for copying to other versions of metatrader or to other PCs.
Hope this helps if anyone runs onto a similar issue on Vista.
Cheers, Paul.
