Updating the connector, once

Why one manual reinstall is being asked of you, and why it is the last one.

The short version

Newer connectors install their own releases. Older ones cannot, because the code that does it did not exist yet. So the connectors that most need updating are exactly the ones that will never update themselves, and the only way out of that is one reinstall by hand.

After that reinstall, the connector keeps itself current on its own and you can go back to forgetting it exists.

How to do it

1. Sign in and open Set up your recording.
2. Download the connector for your platform. The current release is 0.16.0.
3. Close the connector that is running.
4. Unzip the download into the folder your connector already lives in, replacing what is there. Keep the folder: the connector remembers its own location, and a new folder means it will not start with your machine.
5. Start it again.

You do not need a new pairing code. Pairing belongs to the machine, not to the version, and the connector keeps its own credential across a reinstall. If it asks for a code, it did not find its old settings, which usually means it was unzipped somewhere other than where it was living.

The addon is separate, and does not update itself at all

The Bookmap addon has no updater and never has. When a newer one is published, you replace it by hand: remove the old entry in Configure add-ons, then add the new file. The current addon is v14.

Check the box is still ticked afterwards, on every instrument you trade.

What updating actually gets you

Older connectors send less. A field that was added after the version you are running simply is not in what your machine uploads, so the dashboard shows the older shape of your own trading and nothing anywhere says why. Two people can be looking at the same screen and seeing different amounts of it.

That is the whole reason this is being asked of you once, rather than left alone.

If the reinstall goes wrong

Say which step you stopped at, and paste the end of the connector's log, which sits next to the program.

ai-norden-connector.log

If the connector will not start at all after the swap, the previous program is still there beside it with .old on the end of its name, so you are never stuck without a working one.