Unable to Customize User Profile Folder for Telegram on macOS

[ASIjacket]

Steps to reproduce

I am trying to launch Telegram on macOS with a custom user profile folder. Following the instructions from the Telegram Wiki, I attempted the following commands:

./Telegram.app/Contents/MacOS/Telegram -workdir "./Telegram Data"
./Telegram.app/Contents/MacOS/Telegram --data-dir="./Telegram Data"

Expected behaviour

Unfortunately, none of these commands had any effect, and Telegram continues to use the default directory for its user data.

Actual behaviour

When launching Telegram with the specified -workdir or --data-dir parameters, the application ignores these flags and starts using the default data directory (e.g., ~/Library/Application Support/Telegram), instead of the custom directory provided in the command.

Operating system

MACOS 15.2

Version of Telegram Desktop

59.0

Installation source

Static binary from official website

Crash ID

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Logs

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[ilya-fedin]

You can just create TelegramForcePortable folder near Telegram.app

[ASIjacket]

You can just create TelegramForcePortable folder near Telegram.app

It works, thank you !