Dominos set up on 1 machine running 5 copies of wow

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Hey All,

I hit 60 and read some have decided to follow some advice:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Ken%27s_complete_Shaman_macro_set

This has lead me to the add on Dominos Bar Mod and now I am trying to replicate my set up on one account to the other 4...I run 5 copies of wow, in seperate directories on 1 machine. Where the crap is the button layout hidden, I suspect it's in the same place Bongos would hide it, since it's the same developer, so anyone who may have figured this out with Bongos may be able to help.

I have looked up and down my directories, as best as windows will let me. I am now doubling my efforts by trying to find the needle in the haystack using WinMerge to compare every file. I have failed each attempt to find out where my bar layout is hidden. I have my pally set up and all 4 shaman bring up the proper bar layout, 10x12, but only the one Shaman I modified last night has the buttons in the proper place in the bar. I post this in the NEWmB area because I fail at searching...I promise to post a howto once i figure it out, including a lowsy batch file that I am working on.

My binding-cache.wtf seams to be correct, i.e. all of my new keymappings show up but all of the items assigned to the keymaps are wrong...I suspect this is a file outside of WTF...

[Fizzler]

Mod configs are usually stored in /WTF/Account/Username/SavedVariables or further down in /WTF/Account/Username/Server/playername/SavedVariables

[phetish]

your action bars are stored at the server, not on your machine - so you will have to layout each bar on each account.

as for keybindings, i believe those are stored locally on each instance of WoW. i did see this thread: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=2E1494F33A221C79B0FFAA58305 6B1FA?topicId=1602493664&sid=1

Quoted:
(4) Navigate to
./World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/AccountName/
I inspected the following files which looked important, so I copied them all to the corresponding directory on the new PC:
bindings-cache.wtf
cache.md5
macros-cache.txt
macros-local.txt
The MD5 file looked like a database file of some sort, so it went over. The macros-local.txt file was empty, but I moved it too, thinking it might have been important to the operation of the macros-cache.txt file, which had some stuff in it I wanted to keep.

(5) Navigate to
./World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/AccountName/RealmName/ToonName
For each realm and toon, copy these files (if present) to the new PC:
bindings-cache.wtf
macros-cache.txt
macros-local.txt
Not all the files may be present, as you may not have any bindings or macros associated with a particular toon.

(6) Navigate to
./World of Warcraft/WTF/Account/AccountName/RealmName/ToonName/SavedVariables
This is where I found some extra toon specific information. I use the Outfitter add-on, and my current configuration was in this directory. I copied the Outfitter LUA file to the corresponding directory on the new PC.

(7) Once everything is copied over, import your keyboard settings.

(8) Start WoW and activate your addons.

et voila when I logged on, all my key bindings were identical to that of the old PC. I had my WoW native bindings, my CT_BarMod bindings, my G15 bindings, my macros, my Auctioneer data, and my Outfitter data, exactly as I had left it on the old PC.

So instead of trying to sit down and eat in the middle of combat I can continue to execute a flawless Vanish, just as before :þ

If you have more than one account, rinse and repeat steps 3 through 6.

Do this at your own risk. What worked for me may not work for you, but what normally took hours I was able to do in 30 minutes, once I found the right files.
hope that helps....

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Thanks Phetish, mucho help. I am glad I did not resort to kicking my dog and just went to bed last night. It actually makes sense now that I think about it. I had everything else working and was fishing through these areas over and over and over:
C:\wow1\WTF\Account\<account name>\<server name>\<toon name>\SavedVariables
C:\wow1\WTF\Account\<account name>\<server name>\<toon name>
C:\wow1\WTF\Account\<account name>
C:\wow1\WTF
...and found nothing.

Thinking about every new machine I have played on, I now remember that it will properly lay out all non-macros and skip the macro's and keybinds "for some reason". Knowing that the macro's and keybinds were local and the real "work" of account set up, I never questioned the magical proper placement of non macro actions, like the location of my Hearthstone in the action bars and leaving holes where my macro's are. For the average Joe, this is a godsend, as they never see any change to their interface when they get a new machine or run on their friends machine. For the average Bear, like myself, it leads me to frustration as I methodically found all of the files touched with the new set up and did all of the copying only to find the new layout all wrong but the keybinds be correct.

/pat back ...for looking all of the right places
/slap forhead ...for wasting 3-4hrs without dropping a question in to the internets

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I am going to submit this later on the tech forums or gm ticket, anyone care to comment on the clarity of this request:
I am looking to confirm that there is no way to set up the content of my action bars on my local client/pc and that they are stored on the server. I had read that this was stored on the server as opposed to keybindings and macros being stored on the local machine. Is there any plans to allow this to be handled locally versus on the server side?

If I am not missing anything, here is my justification/complaint...
While this may be convenient for someone with one account, one character, and one pc, this is a large hassle in the case that I am encountering where I am trying to change my key binding/macro set up per character and want to be able to manage the changes locally. While I "think" I want to move my setup around, I know it will involve tweaking along the way and I want to mentally map the same kind of macros per character to the same buttons but I could be wrong by 1,2, or many of the first re-positions I want. Saving my old set would be valuable as a back up/revert to ground zero but being able to automate all accounts/toons via *.lua and/or *.wtf file editting would be cooler.

[phetish]

Just to complicate things further, macros will soon be living on the server with your action bars - http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/09/03/macros-saved-to-server-instead-of-computerin-wrath/

An import/export ability would be nice - even if they are on the server, at least you could set one up, export it, then import it to the others.

Edit: I KNOW that it's possible to move buttons, etc around via addons / .lua - if you've ever used MazzleUI, you'll notice that you can tell it to setup your action bars for you. I wonder if there is a way to write a quick and dirty mod that would export your action bars, and then import them ?

[phetish]

I just did a really quick search of Curse.com and found this: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/12751/

Looks like it has the ability to "backup" action bars, etc. while maybe not an intended use, you might be able to set one up, then use this mod to "save" it, copy the SV files, then use it to "setup" your new computer.

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cool info, thanks for poking around for me. Some of this stuff is hard to find without knowing the proper keyword to explain what you are looking for. I am guessing my Tech Forum post will go unanswered and I will brute force it now and set them up and hope I find something comfortable fast, while re-training my keyboard memorization. Pushing macros up to the server is cooler but does not seem like a friendlier solution for anyone with more than one account as I forsee macros being copy pasted in one macro at a time...imagine setting up macros adding/changing spells as you level via the UI versus editing all files at once. That work alone might be enough to change any future groups of mine to power leveling.

For what it is worth, I can see me running a PuG with my priest after all of this work on my pally and shaman....and promptly fat-fingering d/e robes then hearth rather than buffing the party :)