Add Profile Instructions to Readme

[ladle3000]

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Current Situation

Add to readme for windows users:

After installing an update to windows you must go to the main windows user profile C:\Users\yourusername and then go to .config and the profiles for tidal dl are in there as well as settings for downloads.

If windows firewall problems, you have to go to windows firewall protection history and reverse any blocked files by looking for protection history.

If you hit a download problem with chrome, use firefox.

Extract with alternative zip extractor if necessary due to windows unzip sometimes triggering virus protection false positive.

Suggestion / Feature Request

To add similar to above to readme

What operating system do you use?

Windows

Version OS

11

[ladle3000]

I kept having problems finding where profiles lived since they are not in the directories of the app. So this is a modified version of my internal notes that could help someone else.

[orbittwz]

you don't need to alter anything manually when running the program for the first time... also what Windows Update has anything related to this?

[ladle3000]

Often times when an update runs I have to delete an old profile or the program keeps restarting. Especially with multiple profiles on the same machine.

It would be good for users to know where this is anyway so they can take backups of their config in notepad or the like.

I don't think I said anything about windows update, and also I'm trying to be helpful.

From the docs that exist for windows, how is a user supposed to know where the profile lives?

Thanks,scott

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[exislow]

@ladle3000 you sure this is the correct issue tracker for your app?

[ladle3000]

@ladle3000 you sure this is the correct issue tracker for your app?.

Believe so. Just suggesting adding to usage docs how to manage user profiles and where to find them on Windows with the GUI version.

As well as ways to work around the firewall issue if you don't want to disable all AV. My method i found works without disabling everything.

Don't worry about it if it doesn't make sense. Just sharing what I was looking for in the docs and couldn't find. Thought it might help some folks out.