My Addon's reseted

[Loliest-burning-legion]

Im using some addon’s and today all of them is reseted. I tried to bring them back, but i don’t know how. My friends said to me you can bring them back on WTF file, and theres one file with my character’s name. But idk how to use. I need some help about that, thanks…

[Someoneelse-xavius (Someoneelse)]

All addon data is stored in WTF. If WTF has been corrupted or deleted then you can’t restore it unless you made a back up yourself.

[Gratna-agamaggan (Gratna)]

Reinstalling might be a solution.

[Cedrad-the-maelstrom (Cedrad)]

You might find *.bak files in your WTF folder. They are backup files for your addon settings. Whenever you change settings it creates the bak file of the previous settings. If you haven’t change anything in the addon settings since they did reset you might find your settings there.

Just remove the .bak extension so they will become lua files. Just check that filder with your character’s name. There’s a Saved Varibles folder that stores your addon settings.

[Kooki-silvermoon (Kooki)]

This happened to me last week and I ended up having to re-install everything from scratch. I’m not sure what caused it although I had just updated a few addons like DBM via the twitch app just before it happened. When I logged in the game everything was gone, my custom UI and all the addons I had installed, it was most frustrating. I ended up spending the whole night installing everything back and fixing things the way I liked it again.

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

This is the reason why I copy my WTF and Interface folders to another drive every few weeks.

[Canabal-darkspear (Canabal)]

Once a week I back my WTF, cache and Addon folders, get in that habit homie.

[Kooki-silvermoon (Kooki)]

@Dottie-thunderhorn

This is the reason why I copy my WTF and Interface folders to another drive every few weeks.

After last week I think I will do this too.

[anon84695622]

Cedrad got it right, you might want to give it a try and see whether it works for you but just as important and as pointed above you should definitely consider a backup solution.

I use Bvckup to automate my backups, it’s pretty awesome for files backup as opposed to “disk imaging”/“system backup” which it doesn’t do/support.

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

@anon84695622

I use Bvckup to automate my backups

I use something most people know nothing about, a batch file. It deletes the old ones and copies the new ones using the rd and xcopy commands.

[anon84695622]

@Dottie-thunderhorn

I use something most people know nothing about, a batch file. It deletes the old ones and copies the new ones using the xcopy command.

Well, scheduling a batch file is good but just for the record xcopy isn’t as good as robocopy which replaced it in more recent versions of Windows and is more suitable for scripts but they are both crap when it comes to backups, mainly because they aren’t as reliable and efficient as a dedicated backup solution but then you can use whatever works for you.