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I opened my MT4 platforms tonight from numerous brokers and they are totally referencing documents in AppData/Roaming/Metaquotes/Terminal instead of those set up MT4 folders in Program Files.
That is standard behaviour since at least a half a year ago.
If you don't start your terminal with the mobile switch.
So, the question is why your problem surfaced now? It might indie that your platform hasn't upgraded so far which should not be possible.
Running in mobile style will recompile all your indiors/ea and so on. This might cause incompatibilities and also a failure to run.
Therefore you should leave just the binaries (.ex4) from the folders and evacuate all resources (.mq4) someplace else. Must not depart resources.
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But, once I have opened the platform using the shortut, the platform then references the AppData/Roaming/Metaquotes/Terminal/portable.
Seemingly you made an error here.
You need to edit just the Target area of the properties of the shortcut and insert /mobile in the end (beyond the quote marks and with a blank inbetween).
I assume in your case this could look (exactly!) Like this: C:\Program Files\MT4\terminal.exe /portable