Long story short, copying settings from character to character is more difficult than it really needs to be and will depend a lot on the addon you are specifically trying to copy. Thankfully these addons tend to be significantly larger and use profiles just as ElvUI. Finally you will see addons that have a global configuration file (with character specific settins) as well as individual configuration file for each character.This is an annoying configuration because the only way to duplicate settins is to know what part of the config you need to duplicate for a new character. Single global config file that is formatted to differentiate between characters.In these cases, it is usually easy enough to just copy that file from 1 character to another. All settins are stored in a local configuration file specific to a character (WTF/Account/Server/Character/SavedVariables). About 10sec later the other one should receive it, and then must select the profile to use from the menu. You simply need to be close to each other, and then one of you presses the 'share current profile' in the profiles tab while targeting the other person. Character specific configuration file. There's an option on ElvUI to share current profile to your target.
(This would be something like weakauras or tellmewhen) All settings are applied to all characters, can not be customized by character. In this group of addons, configurations are handled in one of 4 ways. These addons are the easiest to handle between characters.Īddons that do not provide profiles ban be a bit more of a pain. This makes the job much easier as you can setup a profile and then simply use that profile for all your characters. This is the direct result of there being no real standardization to the format of configurations. in it.ĭuplicating UI configurations between multiple characters is not as simple an undertaking as one might hope. After all, that has all your character listings, etc. If you open up the WTF folder, you can pull the account folder out of it separately and replace only that one inside the new WTF folder. But I usually make sure I definitely have my WTF folder copied and saved no matter what. I’ve actually deleted the cache multiple times when I’ve had in-game issues and just allowed the game to create a new one because something got corrupted. In most cases just the WTF and Interface folders would be necessary to save. Then before I closed out that WoW folder, I put a copy of each of the older file copies I had saved in place (just removed the word “copy”) making sure those older folders were named exactly as they should appear.
When the patch went live and I was able to get back into the game, I actually renamed the new Interface and WTF folders created by putting the word “new” in front of the name of each.
That way you can always update your copies as you change things and reach a point where things are to your liking. The easiest way to safeguard them is to put those three copies into a folder and put that folder on your desk top out of the way. Once I have played comfortably for about 4-5 days with all the tweaks I want to make, I then log out and make copies of those folders and hang onto them. In fact I always keep a copy of them anyway in case something goes wrong. When you’ve got the files, place them in the same directory in the WoW Classic folder (“_classic_” instead of “_retail_” in the file path).I actually did keep a copy of all three of my folders a week before the patch just in case. You can copy the profile ingame or simply choose to use the same profile on. Once you’re there, you’ll need to copy bindings-cache.wtf for key bindings, and/or macros-cache.txt for macros. To find the files, go to World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\YourUsername\RealmName\CharacterName. The process is extremely simple – all you have to do is find the files in which these settings are stored (one for key bindings, one for macros) and copy them over to the right place.
WoW How to Transfer Key Bindings & Macros from Retail to Classic How to copy bindings from retail to classic? That’s why a lot of people are wondering how to transfer key bindings & macros from retail to classic, which is exactly what we’re going to show you in this guide. Now that WoW Classic is out, having to manually change all of those settings seems like a colossal waste of time. You may have even developed different bindings for different characters. If you’ve been playing for a while, you’ve probably finely tuned them to fit your needs.
WoW key bindings and macros are an important part of the game.