i have confirmed that metatrader 5 does not respect original install sub-folders when loading custom indicators, EAs, saving windows positions (profiles), etc. I've tried running terminal64.exe as administrator (i'm already logged in as administrator anyway),
There was a trick to use /portable someone else mentioned. But the user still has to compile indicators manually in the install subfolders and then refresh the custom indicators/eas list in the navigator.
Step on New Rails: Custom Indicators in MQL5
- 2009.11.23
- Андрей
- www.mql5.com
I will not list all of the new possibilities and features of the new terminal and language. They are numerous, and some novelties are worth the discussion in a separate article. Also there is no code here, written with object-oriented programming, it is a too serous topic to be simply mentioned in a context as additional advantages for developers. In this article we will consider the indicators, their structure, drawing, types and their programming details, as compared to MQL4. I hope that this article will be useful both for beginners and experienced developers, maybe some of them will find something new.
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So whenever mt5 is restarted, this temporary folder is never used, only the file in mt5 install folder is used, so the default 4 charts and full screen window size is always loaded on restart :( I never have this problem in mt4. Whenever I load mt4 terminal, and then restart it, it always saves the restore template in the correct folders.
Is there a method to manually specify where mt5 will save default profile template? I tried to save the profile manually, but the save window does not give me option to pick the location. Only the name of the profile can be saved