All my settings, addons & addon settings were deleted

Since I resubbed a week back, I’ve been able to play a total of maybe 3 hours because of addons being broken. I spent the better part of a day setting everything up again. Today I was going to start wow and there was a shortcut “burning crusade classic” which i’ve never played in my life or installed. So, naturally I selected uninstall. Well, turns out that uninstalled wow. I had to redownload and install the whole thing. Now all addons and addon settings are gone.

How can I get this back without wasting 12 hours or so again of my precious time?

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system restore?

providing you have a backup… just restore to the point u need to.

That wont affect these files though?`

And inb4 “mimimi blizzard are not responsible for addons because its not made by them!” yeah nah, first of all this problem happened because of an issue with their client, secondly the game is unplayable without addons (which blizzard are well aware which is why they did their pathetic attempt to revamp the ui just recently) and so there for they should make it so all settings & addon settings are stored in cloud, it’s their responsibility.

allways have a backup of wtf folder helps in those situations.

all the addons variables and settings are there.

dont think you can do much now.

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i will definitely do this in the future…

How do people have or need that much addons?

I have DBM, Details and auctonator…

I use curseforge app and it keeps everything up-to-date and easy to install.

You can play WoW when downloading after about 45 seconds now. It shouldnt have removed all your settings,

When I came back even on a different machine it had all my add-ons settings and wow settings and key binds.

Depending on what addon manager you use, you might be able to reinstall the addons as long as you don’t tell it to re-sync with the client. (If you re-sync, it will remove all your addons from its database because they’re not on your computer.)

In the future backup the WTF folder on a weekly basis and then you can restore all addons and setting easily.

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