Discussion More than one account: how to configure different tools?

[AB Normal]

Hello everyone,
My main account is on Steam, and like many other people I've just made a new account in the Epic Games Store.
With my main I use EDMC, EDDiscovery and, sometimes, EDEngineer; EDMC feeds data to EDDN, Inara and EDSM, too; and I want to use the same tool setup for my alt account, yes I'm lazy, yes.
I've noticed that, when I switch between accounts, the EDDiscovery log of my main account gets tainted with data from the alt account, and Inara and EDSM show some data mixing, too.

How can I keep the data separated for the two accounts?
Thank you,

ABN

 

[UseLessUK]

I created another profile on the PC so I now have my normal login and the EpicGames one I created, this then keeps the 2 different game progresses/settings separate.

I first just installed it using the normal PC profile and then noticed when I started the Steam version that things had changed ... my visited star db had been wiped out for one thing. Should have known something was up when I started the Epic version as all the controls were already setup, so it was using the settings from the Steam version as they would be common to both game installs.

 

[Para Handy]

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I've noticed that, when I switch between accounts, the EDDiscovery log of my main account gets tainted with data from the alt account, and Inara and EDSM show some data mixing, too.
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I don't use the others but I have EDDiscovery running every time I play and it keeps all my "Commanders" separate. I don't remember ever having to set up an alternative commander, I am sure it always create a new commander when I started one. I assume it just takes the commander name from the journal file and writes to its records for that commander or creates a new one if it is a new commander name in the journal file. (See edit added below.)

No doubt you can manually add a commander under the settings tab, I never have had to (I think) but of course I edit the api etc for each one from there:

If you are having issues with alts in EDD then I am sure the authors will be keen to help in their threads or discord.

EDIT:

From EDD's help ( https://github.com/EDDiscovery/EDDiscovery/wiki/How-EDDiscovery-Works )

When EDDiscovery reads the journal files, if it sees a new commander listed in the journals, it will search the commander table in settings for an existing commander. If does not find a commander of the name given in the journal, it will create a new entry in this table for the commander.

So if that is not happening for you then you might need to reach out to the authors.

 

[nepomuk]

I created two Windows users and installed ELITE twice. So if you have enough disk space, this is, in my opinion, the most sensible version.
There is also the possibility of a single ELITE installation, but that is, at least for me, not very easy.
For a Windows user I need about 30 GB . The installation of ELITE needs about 25 GB. I use Voice Attack, EDDI and EDMC. The other tools use the browser and its cache. With two Windows-Users nothing gets confused.
It is important to create two accounts at FD with two different email addresses !

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[AB Normal]

I have two installed games, one for Steam and one for Epic; and I've created two different accounts on Frontier, and on Inara, and on EDSM (although this last one does not work), with different emails;
Para Handy, I've verified that EDDisco created two different CMDR profiles, just like there are two different journal files in the Frontier folder, but in my History tab in EDDisco the entries are still mixed.
To streamline the too many tools I'm using, I've decided to abandon EDMC; it's very lean and uses very little resources, but the functions I use are duplicated by EDDisco, and EDDisco has the journal function that I like a lot.
Tonight I will try the alt account, and see if EDDisco still mingles the two journals.

Thanks all for the replies,

ABN