Installation & Updates

How Blue Synergy installs, updates, and cleans up.

Blue Synergy ships as a standard Windows installer (.exe). Updates install silently with no dialogs. Your clips, triggers, captures, and settings are never touched during an update.

Installing

  1. Download the installer from blue-synergy.com/download.
  2. Run it — installation is silent with no prompts.
  3. Blue Synergy installs to %LocalAppData%\blue-synergy\ by default.
  4. Your data folder is at %AppData%\blue-synergy\ — separate from the app files.

Windows SmartScreen: On first run you may see an “Unknown publisher” warning. Click More info → Run anyway. This is expected for early releases (no code-signing certificate yet).

Updating

Updates install automatically once you click Download & Install in the Updates dialog. The process is silent — no reset prompts, no data changes, no manual steps. Blue Synergy relaunches automatically once the new version is installed.

To check manually: Help → Check for Updates.

Uninstalling

Use Windows Settings → Apps or the dedicated uninstaller. During uninstall, a checkbox lets you remove all user data (config, database, captures, backups, downloaded OCR language packs). Leave it unchecked to keep your data for a future reinstall.

Tips & gotchas

  • Installing a new version over an existing one never touches your data — clips, triggers, and settings are preserved.
  • Downloaded OCR language packs (German, French, etc.) are stored separately — the uninstaller offers a dedicated checkbox to remove them.

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