There are some video tutorials here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpqXPk4HV44MOx8bVB3IOqA

Grab a current copy of SWGAide-Unity.exe from the releases area: https://github.com/twistedatrocity/SWGAide-NGE/releases

Create a new folder for SWGAide-Unity, anywhere you want.

Place the SWGAide-Unity.exe file in to the new folder.

Double click the icon for SWGAide-Unity.exe to launch it.

SWGAide guides you through its initialization. Actually, you just have to choose the game folder SWG is installed in; you cannot make a useful installation of SWGAide without SWG installed.

SWGAide creates several folders and files its directory; they are all self explanatory.

For updates all you need to do is download a new copy of the exe replacing the old one. If you are upgrading from the -NGE version to -Unity then you would simply just use the Unity exe going forward and delete the NGE exe.

Begin to just play around; try to right click at various GUI elements.

When you have a question, press F1 at the keyboard, or select "Help".

The Main panel's left-hand side displays

1. stations (accounts)
2. galaxies at which you have a character, or have had
3. files such as aliases, macros, and notes files

SWGAide tries to find all characters, however sometimes it can only find characters who have saved mails. To be able to read game-mails in SWGAide you must, in-game and for each character, execute the command,

/mailsave

After some time a SWG system message tells how many mails that were saved. The more mails to save the longer delay as they are retrieved on demand one by one. Thus, retain only important mails in game, delete the rest. Once they are saved to disk it is safe to delete in-game mails.

NOTICE: If the system message about saved mails never shows up then there are some old or corrupt mails which the in-game mail client cannot retrieve. In SWG, open the mail client, select a mail one at a time beginning with the oldest. If the mail body never shows up, delete the mail since it is corrupt at the server. Continue until the system message shows up. Or, if you have no valuable mails, use the command /emptyMail

NOTE: when you edit a notes files, you cannot have the very same file open in-game while editing it outside of game. The outside edits are overwritten by the game when you close the notepad.

Again, when you have questions about something in SWGAide, navigate to the related panel and press F1, or select Help. Help is context sensitive. During initiation all help files are copied to a "docs" folder as web pages.

Java developers and also non-programmers are warmly welcomed. The latter group could gather and submit all kinds of data that could be useful in SWGAide and post that at the SWGAide forum at https://swgaide.com/ Or anything else that is useful for other players, at any format or syntax. Developers are welcomed to download the source code from github, browse the code but DM me on discord before going ahead to implement stuff.

This file contains all of your settings and whatever you have stored in SWGAide, such as resource inventory, comments at schematics, etc. You cannot edit this file, it is a "serialized Java object stream". SWGAide creates a backup of this file regularly but also about every ten minute. If SWGAide complains that the file is corrupt you have three options:

1. Exit SWGAide and manually replace the corrupt file with one of the recent backup files. This gives you a chance to copy files to a safe place, or to try files other than the most recent, etc.
2. Let SWGAide try the file SWGAide.BAK from the backup folder.
3. Report the issue here at github in the Issues tab.

All reports, requests, criticism, or whatever you report is warmly welcomed:

https://github.com/twistedatrocity/SWGAide-NGE/issues

You may also use the forum for discussion of SWGAide at https://swgaide.com/

SWGAide does not add anything to the Windows Registry and it does not spread files all over your computer. SWGAide is contained within the folder you created for SWGAide. Save the "mails" folder and other files which you want to keep, then delete SWGAide's folder ... and done.