Synchronize action bar setup betweep computers?

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Is there a way, either by addon or otherwise, to have the interface setup (actionbars primarily) synchronize between different computers? I play on two different computers and would like for changes I do on one computer reflect on the other.

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You can copy the /interface/addon and /wtf folder from location A to B (including sub folders).
There are probably programs made to do this, but if you know a lottle about batch programming you can make a batch file pretty easy also.

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Don’t some of the addon managers do that?

You could do it Xenera’s way if they are on the same network. Just share the folders and make a batch command to copy the folders and sub-folders.

XCOPY /i /s "\\ComputerName1\Program Files\World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF" "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF"

XCOPY /i /s "\\ComputerName1\Program Files\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface" "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface"

should work. It’s been a while since I did batch commands so I may be missing an overwrite switch

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It is not far from my script, Dottie:
ExportEra.cmd:

@echo off

set Source=C:\Games\World of Warcraft\_classic_era_
set Dest=E:\Shared\Games\World of Warcraft\_classic_era_

echo *** Copying Addons ...
xcopy "%Source%\interface\addons" "%Dest%\Addons\" /S /Q

echo *** Copying WTF ...
xcopy "%Source%\WTF" "%Dest%\WTF\" /S /Q

echo.

Use:
I have one computer being the master (the source).
The other computer is on the same network, and I have mapped that to my E: drive.
You can use UNC network paths as Dottie suggests as well.

Last I created a shortcut on the desktop so I can just click the script to copy from Master to the slave client whenever needed.

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Thanks for your reply folks! Alas the computer ate on separate networks. Guess I’ll have to look for an addon that can help me with this.

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The Curseforge addon updater beta allows you to sync via twitch.

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But that’s only the addons on CurseForge - not the settings itself.

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Then the only real option is to copy to a USB and move them. Just drag and drop them onto it.

Unless you want to mess around uploading and downloading with cloud storage.

Sorry but an addon cannot do this.

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Allright! Thanks again. It was worth asking :slight_smile:

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I don’t know if this is something you may also want to do, but if you have 2 different wow accounts you can sync addons so that you won’t have to copy over the settings from one to another.

You do that through Link Shell Extension [https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html] and more specifically through symbolic links. You just have to delete the SavedVariables folder of the 2nd account, and drop a symbolic link you created from your 1st account as if you were to replace that SavedVariables with a copy.

If you have questions other people can probably explain it better than what I did or hit me up on the vanilla classic era discord. I don’t have any coding skills but I like to edit addon settings and stuff since I’m an altoholic.

P.S: just realised this but yes, you can sync your action bars if you use an addon like Bartender that have profiles you can export over to other wow accounts, like I just explained above.

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I think a drag and drop to and copy from a USB stick is far easier as the computers are not on the same network.

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Yeah that’s also true.

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I exchange my Wtf folder of 2 PCs via Google drive

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