Settings and files

Sidekick keeps everything in two places: its own folder, and the key file it shares with the other Supervertaler products. Nothing is written to the registry or to AppData.

The Sidekick folder

Sidekick.ahk, lib\	the program
data\	your content – the menu, clipboard history, shortcuts, text expansions. Never overwritten by an update.
data.example\	the starter set, copied into data\ on first run
settings.ini	your settings; created from settings.example.ini
settings.example.ini	the documented template – every setting, with a comment saying what it does
packs\	the language packs, one JSON file per language pair – see Searches

Inside data\:

File	Holds
menu.json	the menu: snippets, bookmarks, AI prompts, searches, conversions – see the library
shortcuts.json	the shortcuts you made yourself – see Keyboard shortcuts
expansions.json	text expansions – see Text expansion
clipboard.json	clipboard history

All plain JSON. Copy the folder to another machine and Sidekick is set up there.

settings.ini

Open it in any editor, or reach the parts that have a window through the menu:

Section	Holds	Window
[Hotkeys]	the built-in shortcuts	Settings → Keyboard shortcuts…
[AI]	provider, model and effort for AI actions	–
[Keys]	API keys (see below)	Settings → AI providers & keys…
[QuickTrans]	which engines, which models, whether AI is fetched automatically, and the language pair (SourceLang, TargetLang)	Settings → AI providers & keys…, Settings → Language pair…
[Packs]	which language packs are installed (Installed=nl-en); absent means the pack for the current pair	Settings → Language packs…
[Clipboard]	capture on/off, size, expiry, excluded programs	Settings → Pause / resume clipboard capture
[Window]	the main window’s size and position, written automatically	–

Changes to settings.ini made by hand take effect after Settings → Reload Sidekick (Ctrl+R).

The shared API key file

API keys are read first from the file all Supervertaler products share:

C:\Users\<you>\Supervertaler\settings\api-keys.json

One key per provider, plain text. A key pasted into Supervertaler for Trados or Supervertaler for memoQ works in Sidekick, and one entered in Sidekick’s AI providers & keys… window is written there for the plugins. Sidekick’s machine-translation keys sit in the same file under their own names – note that google there is Google Translate, not Gemini.

A key in settings.ini under [Keys] is used only when the shared file has none for that provider.

Where the tray icon went

Sidekick lives in the system tray. Right-click its icon for the menu; if the icon is hidden, Windows has tucked it behind the ^ overflow arrow. The tray icon follows the taskbar’s light or dark theme.