Hi all, how do you save profiles to a backup directory for quickly restoring them to a new installation of MT4 or importing them into another copy of MT4?
I have searched the forum using several variations of “saving profiles to disK” and also looked through the help manual of MT4 and have not found anything.
Thanks for any help.
Hi rtv2,
Metatrader will save your profile to the same location on your hard drive. What you could then do is try copying those files your “backup location”.
Here’s where they’re saved on your computer C Drive > Program Files > “Metatrader” > Profiles. The profiles folder is where everything is saved.
I put Metatrader in " because it could be saved as a different file name on your computer depending on which broker you downloaded it from.
-Jason
Thanks Jason, you are exactly right.
What i have found though, is that what i had was a security rights issue involving MT4 and windows vista. I had to actually open up the properties of the “MT4” install directory and grant full access to the users group to the install directory and copy the data from the virtualstore directory over the install directory.
What was happening was that profiles were just disappearing, then the next time i would open up MT4 they would come back.
Found the resolution at
www (dot) mistigrifx (dot) com/tools/metatrader-and-vista-security
Only found this out after i spent several hours creating profiles and wanted to save them for future use.
Good to know! I’m still using Windows XP 
but will save the info just in case…
However hopefully you wont be using windows vista because the new windows version 7, or whatever name they call it when it comes out, will be out before to long.
Alot of people have had alot of problems with vista, or rather, they just don’t like vista.
So I’ve heard… Doesn’t sound like there’s much of an upgrade from xp to vista. Just going to wait until they release version 7 to upgrade the old computer.