I usually have several charts open, typically two charts for each currency pair (just the primaries, not the crosses for now). I display two charts of the same currency side-by-side, one weekly and one daily, or one 4 hour and one 1 hour, etc. All of the other charts are minimized. The problem is that when I close MT5 and reopen it, all the windows are now displayed, in small windows, instead of remembering which two windows I had displayed and which others (all the rest) that I had minimized. So I have to go through and arrange all of these windows all the time. It's a pain. it would be nice for it to remember my desktop/workspace. I have tried setting it all up the way I want and saving it as a profile, but it doesn't work. Close MT5, reopen, all the windows (12 of them) are displayed, tiny, in a grid.
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit.
-Jerry
Nevermind, I found it. You may be partially correct. There is a Profiles directory located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MetaTrader 5\Profiles
And my custom profile should be located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MetaTrader 5\Profiles\Charts\MyCustomProfileName
There is a folder there, but it has the generic 4 charts and order.wnd file that all profiles in that location have.
But instead it's located here:
C:\Users\my.user.name\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\5D2A9C702A29311ED87B6AD8A346121B\profiles\Charts\MyCustomProfileName
I copied the files (12 chart files and the order.wnd file) back to the profiles directory under C:\Program Files (x86) and reloaded the program but it does the same thing, all twelve windows open in a grid. The order.wnd file doesn't store window positions, only the chart names (chart01.chr, chart09.chr, chart12.chr, etc.) in a specific order. I can't see how, with only the chart names and orders how it can remember window position. Maybe that information is stored in the chr file?
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I usually have several charts open, typically two charts for each currency pair (just the primaries, not the crosses for now). I display two charts of the same currency side-by-side, one weekly and one daily, or one 4 hour and one 1 hour, etc. All of the other charts are minimized. The problem is that when I close MT5 and reopen it, all the windows are now displayed, in small windows, instead of remembering which two windows I had displayed and which others (all the rest) that I had minimized. So I have to go through and arrange all of these windows all the time. It's a pain. it would be nice for it to remember my desktop/workspace. I have tried setting it all up the way I want and saving it as a profile, but it doesn't work. Close MT5, reopen, all the windows (12 of them) are displayed, tiny, in a grid.
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit.