IB Forcing Upgrade to new TWS 851

[Pete - IB]

Quote from Tech Analysis:

I'm using 831.9 and would like to upgrade with the least amount of fanfare possible.

How can I do this without losing my settings? I have custom colors, fonts, column widths & other settings and do not wish to start from scratch.

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.

 

[Pete - IB]

Quote from Catoosa:

I just finished doing the upgrade. It was a disaster. All of my settings, pages, and symbols were wiped clean. Nothing left as if it was my first installation. I was upgrading from version 831.4. :eek:

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.

 

[bali_survivor]

Quote from kiwi_trader:

The poll is hardly silly ... not as silly as an "everyone must change in one month" strategy anyway. Plus, your winning - no one cares, they're just chilling out for the weekend.

The poll is a good way to create some feedback for you about the "everyone must change in one month" approach and how it reflects on a customer service ethic that I have been known to defend. Why must everyone change in one month?

And why not include some transaction information in the backfill while we are all upgrading?

I will be very happy to switch in one month if IB has worked all the significant bugs out.

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

 

[Catoosa]

Quote from Pete - IB:

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.

There is no such option to select under "File/Manage workspace" in TWS 851. I hope you have a method.

 

[stock777]

Quote from bali_survivor:

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.

lol. I'll bet the programmers would be happy to produce new code only once every 3-5 years.

Sometimes I wonder.

 

[OldTrader]

Quote from Catoosa:

There is no such option to select under "File/Manage workspace" in TWS 851. I hope you have a method.

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

 

[bali_survivor]

Quote from stock777:

lol. I'll bet the programmers would be happy to produce new code only once every 3-5 years.

Sometimes I wonder.

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.

 

[bali_survivor]

Quote from OldTrader:

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

OldTrader

are you looking at an old version?

This is what I see with TWS 851 standalone

 

[Pete - IB]

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.

Quote from Catoosa:

There is no such option to select under "File/Manage workspace" in TWS 851. I hope you have a method.

 

[Catoosa]

Quote from bali_survivor:

OldTrader

are you looking at an old version?

This is what I see with TWS 851 standalone

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".