Settings

Open Settings from the System section of the sidebar. There is a Search settings… box at the top — type to filter the sections down to what you are looking for.

The sections below are in the order you will see them.

General

• Output folder — the root folder where all utilities save, each into its own subfolder. Use Browse… to change it, or Reveal to open it in File Explorer.
• Job concurrency — the maximum number of jobs running simultaneously, from 1 to 16. Raise it to work through batches faster; lower it to be gentler on your computer. Data work is heavier than most, so this one is worth lowering if a big run makes the machine feel slow.

Notifications

• Notify when a job finishes — show a system notification when a run completes or fails.

Startup & window

• Launch on Windows startup — start DataTray minimized to the tray at login.

Privacy & diagnostics

All three are anonymous, opt-out, and never include URLs, filenames, column names or any of your data.

• Crash reports — send anonymized crash diagnostics.
• Usage analytics — send anonymous feature-usage events.
• Reinstall / Uninstall analytics — on first launch, send a single anonymous id so installs and reinstalls can be measured.

See Privacy & diagnostics.

Updates

• Update channel — Stable or Beta. Beta receives releases earlier, with more risk.
• Check for updates — the hint line shows the live update state, and the button reads Check now, or Restart to update once an update has downloaded. See Updates.

Bandwidth exchange

DataTray is free because it shares a portion of your idle internet bandwidth through Massive. Sharing is what pays for the utilities, so they only run while it is on.

• Share idle bandwidth — the single participation control. Its hint tells you the consequence as it currently stands: "On. The utilities are available." or "Off. The utilities are disabled until you turn sharing back on."
• Exchange status — a live pill showing the engine's actual state, not what you asked for.

The switch tracks the engine, not your setting. If you turn it on and the engine never starts, DataTray says so in red rather than showing you a satisfied-looking switch over a service that is not running. See The bandwidth exchange.

Utilities

A card for each utility, with a switch to enable or disable it — disabled utilities are hidden from the sidebar — and the subfolder it saves into. Where a utility has configurable defaults they appear on its card.

Unlike the other apps in this family, no utility card here shows a dependency, a download or an install button, because none of the five tiles needs one. There is no bundled-tool section in DataTray's Settings for the same reason.

About

• Version — the installed DataTray build.
• Privacy policy — Open launches DataTray's privacy policy in your browser.
• Open-source licenses — View opens the bundled third-party notices, grouped by license.

If something goes wrong here

• A setting I am looking for is not on screen. Clear the Search settings… box — it hides whole sections that do not match.
• The Share idle bandwidth switch is greyed out. The exchange is unavailable on this machine and toggling would not help. See Troubleshooting.
• A utility vanished from the sidebar. Its switch under Utilities is off.