The Addon Junkie

So if you’re anything like me, you have a LOT of addons (well over 100 in my case). You probably also have more than one character, and you probably despise rolling a new one. I mean configuring all those addons was painful enough the first time, right? Well luckily there’s a quick and easy way to automate a lot of that tedious setup.

Due to security concerns with third-party LUA script, addons for World of Warcraft are limited to storing their settings in one of two places: the addon’s own subfolder of the Interface\Addons folder, or the WTF folder. WTF stands for “Write to File” and is the default for the majority of addons for a good reason. If LUA asks WoW to write something to a file using this method it is stored in a branch of a hierarchical folder structure that is specific to the currently logged on character. This means the addons do not have to be “aware” of which character is logged in – storage and separation of settings happen automatically. Not all addons can, or do, take the easy road so the method presented in the video is not a 100% solution, as shown in the video I still had to manually configure a few of my addons even after copying the files, but it works for the vast majority of addons out there. In any case, enjoy the video. It should be available up to 720p HD, and I recommend viewing it in as high a resolution as your computer and bandwidth will allow since today we’ll be looking at some fairly small text. My apologies for the letterboxing (black bars at the sides) as well. This video was thrown together in a hurry using Windows Live Movie Maker, and I will not be repeating that mistake. Future videos will be compiled in Adobe Premiere – just as soon as I figure out where my copy went… Video after the break.
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