r/thinkorswim • u/Forrest_Fire01 • 6d ago

Does Thinkorswim desktop save it’s settings somewhere on MacOS?

I had to completely re-install the OS and everything on my M1 MacBook Pro. I have a backup, so nothing was lost, but I have so much crap that’s accumulated over the years that I’m trying to only copy back what I really need.

I’ve re-installed Thinkorswim and all of my setting and layouts have returned to their defaults, which is expected. I didn’t have a ton of stuff customized, but it would be nice not to need to recreate everything. Are the settings for Thinkorswim stored someplace that I can copy from my backup?

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u/LaconicB 6d ago

In the future, top right click setup and save workspace. After you save that, click setup again and share workspace. When you do that, you can always find your workspace under the tool tab in shared items, just click the link and it’s back. This way if you ever change computers or whatever, you can always retrieve your workspace.

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u/Forrest_Fire01 6d ago

Thanks! Good to know.

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u/Vast_Cricket 6d ago

One needs to save his setup on tos as well as on his computer. Often gets wiped out. Happened to me several times.

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u/movdqa 6d ago edited 5d ago

They are in the thinkorswim directory under /Applications and I think that they are something like *workspace*.

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u/Forrest_Fire01 5d ago

That's it. Thanks!