Addons 101: The basics of customization

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7-21-2010 @ 4:42PM

zhaharik said...

One simple piece of advice I feel you should have included:

Make backups of your WTF and Interface folders, *before* you start messing around.

Otherwise, if you decide you need to delete those folders, you're starting from scratch again, and you've lost any data which builds up over time (Auctioneer, Gatherer, etc.)

It's also worth making clear that you can delete only the folders within WTF and Interface that relate to the addon you just screwed up. More precisely, deleting the folders within WTF will set you back to default for that addon, while deleting the folders within Interface/Addons will delete the addon entirely.

I'm not sure if it's the same on all systems, but on Windows 7, the addon-specific settings are stored in WTF/Account/"accountname"/SavedVariables

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