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Set up
If you are already running the prior version of TD Helper v1.0.7.8 (TDH1) then you do not need to install .NET 4.5 or python >= 3.4 otherwise both of these are mandatory requirments and you should search for instruction on installing these on your favourite search engine.
Download the latest version of TDHelper v2 (TDH2) from the releases page, open the file in Windows Explorer, select all the files and copy them to a new folder. The files do not need to go in "c:\Program Files" or "c:\Program File (x86)" and can live on any hard-drive. I have set up TDH2 in e:\ED\TDH2 and it works fine from this secondary hard-drive.
Right-click on the TDHelper.exe file and send to the Desktop as a short cut.
The latest version of TD can be found at https://github.com/eyeonus/Trade-Dangerous. Point your browser at this page and click the "Clone or download" button followed by the "Download ZIP" button. TD will be downloaded to your computer. Locate the ZIP file, open it in Windows Explorer, copy and paste all the files to the new trade dangerous folder you created.
Open a CMD window and locate the new tradedangerous folder and run the following command:
python trade.py import -P eddblink -O clean
This will rebuild the trade dangerous database.
Once that has completed run TDHelper. TDHelper will now ask you to locate a number of files.
The first will be the python.exe file. If you do not know where this is located and you have the prior version of TD Helper installed, start up the prior version of TD Helper and open the settings window. You will be able to see the python.exe location here. If you do not have a prior version of TD Helper then use the Windows Search. Note that this must be python 3, the current latest stable version is python 3.7.
Once you have located the python.exe file TDH2 will ask you to locate the trade.py file in the tradedangerous folder. Ensure that you select the newly downloaded version and not an old copy that you have on your hard-drive.
If you cancel out for the file selection dialog when asked for a valid AppConfig.xml file then scanning of the NetLog files will be disabled.
Note that if you cancel out of the python.exe or trade.py file selection windows TDH2 will give you a warning message and exit once you have pressed the 'OK' button. You will not be able to use TDH2 until you have located the python.exe and the trade.py files.
Once you have located all the required files wait a few seconds for the database to be rebuild and the net log files read. You may see a 'Rebuilding Database' or 'Reading net logs' message appear if the process takes longer than 5 seconds. If you have a lot of net log files, then the wait for something to happen the first time could take some time, so please be patient.
If you have a re-buy percentage that is not 5% you should now open the settings form and enter your re-buy percentage there in the appropriate place Once done, close the settings form. If you are an alpha backer, then your re-buy percentage will be 2.5%. For a beta backer this is 3.75%
Press the "Cmdr Profile" button to set up the available ships. Login to Frontier, press the 'Valid' button and your profile should download creating an entry in the list of available configurations, one for each ship you have in the game. It will also select your current ship and switch to that load out. You will not be able to download your profile again for 60 seconds.
You will need to enter the laden and unladen values and the cargo capacity for all your ships as the commander profile does not include these. The cargo capacity will be set correctly for the current ship since the profile reports this, but not the jump ranges.
You could open the tdh.ini file and enter the data manually if so desired, it is an INI file and therefore easy to read.
A very practical way to do this is to open tdh.ini in your favourite text editor, Notepad++ is a very good editor, run Elite, go to the Shipyard and your stored ships and cycle through them one at a time entering the cargo capacity, laden and unladen jump ranges for each ship. I curently have 35 ships and it took about 15 minutes to update the information in the manner just described.
Save the ini file and a backup copy somewhere safe just in case something does go wrong with TDH2 and you lose all that information. If this should happen, close TDH2, copy the saved INI file back to the TDH2 folder and start TDH2 up again.
TDH2 is set up and ready to use.