Just make sure to backup your settings directory before upgrading. For stand-alone users, the settings directory is a subdirectory of c:\jts and has a jumbled name such as "dhingdg." To verify the name of your settings directory: run TWS, select a ticker row, and press ctrl-alt-U; a message box will appear specifying the full path of the directory.
If you select "File/Manage Workspaces" from the main menu, you should see a workspace listed called "pre-upgrade." If you select it and click "Apply Workspace," it should restore things to the way they looked before the upgrade. Please let me know if that doesn't work.
We do not have a problem with a "forced upgrade" as long as it is an exception to resolve a serious (read: fundamental data communication) problem and does not happen more than once every 3 ~ 5 years. Anything more often than that and we start to wonder about the stability of their software design. (read: Is the design crappy? / Are their programmers involved in "spaghetti coding" and are they giving design lip-service?) We are happy with 851, stability seems to have improved. Now please leave it (the data communication design) alone and do not tinker with it! Thank you. Maria
There is no such option to select under "File/Manage workspace" in TWS 851. I hope you have a method.
lol. I'll bet the programmers would be happy to produce new code only once every 3-5 years. Sometimes I wonder.
Catoosa: There IS such option. Merely select "File", then in the drop down select "Manage Workspaces". A box will open in which you may select one of three choices: select "pre-upgrade.wsp". Always good to be observant. OldTrader
I hope you are more observant in your trading than in what you are showing here. I am referrring to the data communication part, not to TWS as a whole.
Please zip up and send me the settings directory from before you upgraded (this is the subdirectory of c:\jts with the jumbled name) so we can diagnose the problem you encountered while upgrading. Thanks.
OldTrader, after upgrading to 851, I click File>Manage Workspace, and get the same box as you show in your attachment; However, there is no "pre-upgrade workspace" as a possible choice. All I see is "default Workspace".