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Missing Macros?
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Post by
Zoeteklem
Ok, so the other day I logged in and noticed that one of the macro's that I use all the time was missing from my task bar. Upon investigation, I noticed that nearly all my macro's were gone from both my shared toon list and the personal toon list.
A little back story before I theorize what may have happened. When MoP went live, I noticed that there were a few minor macro's were missing in my list. No problem, the ones that were missing were the ones that helped me quick change into different gear sets. Like I said, minor, but noticeable.
Today, the only thing now that I have left is those gear macros on that toons character. What gives? I know those were newer, but why get rid of the rest. Some of those macro's I have had for a while and it was always good to have in case I needed to make a new one and retrofit an old one to work, make a new one based on the design of a previous one, reminisce, etc...
Any thoughts? Are they now gone forever? I know that macro's are no longer stored in the WTF folder (or something like that) on my computer... so why would Blizz decide to get rid of them?
Thanks for the help.
Post by
GTMistral
Yes, macros are still stored in your WTF folder. It's
macros-cache.txt
in your account-wide (/root/WTF/Account/
account-name
/*) folder and in your caracter-specific (/root/WTF/Account/
account-name
/
server-name
/
char-name/*
) folder as well. But there is a way to backup your macros on Blizzard's server. I don't remember where or if it's automatic and given to the player in case of hardware failure on the client side.
There are a few possibilities to that. Do you have an authenticator? That could be a security issue. It could also be a small hardware failure that made the
macros-cache.txt
to become corrupted and therefore unreadable. Just a few bits on the harddisk can render it unreadable, you know. Could be a bug somewhere on your computer that partially overwrite your macro cache and that kind of problem could come from pretty much everywhere. Just a few bits writen on the wrong sector of your hardware could cause it.
By the way, I noticed last night after a client crash that my presets equipment were all gone. I logged out and logged back in and it worked. They were all back. Will that work with macro? In case, I always keep a copy of my complex macros. Furthermore, I don't have enough room for those in my cache. I wish Blizzard would make it bigger and easier to use. That's one thing that didn't change at all since the launch of the game 9 years back!
Post by
pelf
I have my WTF folder sychronized with my Dropbox. Not only do I get a backup, I also get change history. Win.
Post by
Zoeteklem
Great, thanks for the info guys. I'll look into it!
Post by
HighFive
I have my WTF folder sychronized with my Dropbox. Not only do I get a backup, I also get change history. Win.
O. This is a good idea.
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