PandaQuest 0.1.1341 -- Windows sync application (portable zip)
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This is the copy you unpack by hand. The installer on the same /setup page
(PandaQuestSetup-<version>.exe) does all of the below for you, adds a Start
menu entry, and keeps PandaQuest up to date by itself.

It reads the data the game saves while you play, sends it to the PandaQuest
website, and brings the community guide back into the addon.

  1. Unzip this folder anywhere, for example C:\PandaQuest
  2. Double-click PandaQuestCompanion.exe
  3. Windows may stop you with a blue window, "Windows protected your PC"
     (SmartScreen), and call the publisher unknown, because this program is
     not signed with a code-signing certificate yet. Click More info, then
     Run anyway.
  4. No black command window and no browser tab opens. The PandaQuest window
     opens, and when you close it the program stays in the notification area
     next to the clock. If you cannot see the panda icon, click the arrow (^)
     next to the clock. When Windows starts it at logon, only the icon
     appears.
  5. The first time -- and only then -- the PandaQuest window opens with one
     button, Continue to PandaQuest to log in. Your browser opens the
     website, where you sign in with Battle.net (if you are signed in there
     already, that step is skipped), check that the page shows the same code
     as the window, give this computer a name if you like and confirm it.
     There is no password to type into this program and no key to look for:
     it fetches its own. Then press Choose game folder (it looks for the
     game itself and offers what it finds). Later you can open the window
     again from the icon's menu, Open settings: Home shows your realms and
     characters, Start sync / Stop sync, and how many players are online;
     News has the changelog, Browse the world map, quests and professions,
     the search box finds everything, and the Bugtracker sends a report.
  6. Play. Type /reload in the game whenever you want your data sent now.

Right-click the icon for the menu: the status line, Sync now, Open settings,
Open website, Open logs, Restart, Uninstall... and Quit.

To remove the program and the key it stored, choose Uninstall... in that
menu; afterwards you can delete this folder. It does not remove the data you
have already sent to the website: you remove that on the page
/settings/privacy of the same site you downloaded this from.

The addon (Interface\AddOns\PandaQuest) is installed and updated from
CurseForge:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/pandaquest
This program does not install or update the addon and does not replace its
files. It reads the data the game saves and sends it to the hub, and writes
only one file into the addon's folder, Database\Overrides\Community.lua.

More help is on the /setup page of the same site you downloaded this from.

Mac and Linux: this program is not needed there. Download the program for
your computer from that same /setup page.
