Chat channels like world are greyed out

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when i go to chat settings, channel tab i see the custom channels i did join yesterday all greyed out while active, doing /leave or /join does nothing

this includes “world” “global” and “lfg”.
and in cant talk on them either.

i have also a custom chat tab but cant enable those channels. they are not greyed out like main tab is, but are disabled and cant click on the box to enable.

EDIT: gemini fixed it for me - did all steps of:

Method 1: Delete Local Chat Settings Files

  1. Completely exit World of Warcraft. The game saves chat data upon exit; modifying files while the client is running will cause WoW to overwrite your changes with the corrupted memory state.

  2. Open your World of Warcraft installation folder and navigate to your character directory:...\World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\<YOUR_ACCOUNT>\<Your-Realm>\<Your-Character>\(Replace _retail_ with _classic_ or your specific version folder).

  3. Delete the following files:

    • chat-cache.txt

    • chat-cache.old

  4. Clear account-wide chat cache (if character deletion does not fix it): Go up two folders to ...\WTF\Account\<YOUR_ACCOUNT>\ and delete chat-cache.txt / chat-cache.old there as well.

  5. Relaunch the game.Verification: Open Chat Settings; default tabs and channels will return to their default active state, and custom channel slots will be cleared out.

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