no new toons

[alcattle]

I am trying out Tour guide files so I create a lot of new toons. Before this week, I create the toon, enter world, take first quest and log out/exit game. Then I go to ISboxer and use the wizard to create a new group/ character set. Now today the new toons are not showing in the character list using the wizard. Any ideas, or am I having a brain fart?

[Lax]

Technically you don't need it to be in the list, you can just type in the name, but I'm sure you realize that and need the convenience since you're making a lot of characters.

It should list every character that has saved information in any of the WoW folders configured for IS. If it's not being listed, I would probably check that first (e.g. the folder World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\MyServer\MyCharacter should exist). If you're using a different WoW folder for creating them, the "fix" might just be to add that to IS with Add Game (and then close IS for the change to save, then restart ISBoxer for it to load the change)

[alcattle]

The folder is there but only has one toon, and not the one I was looking for. I saved the characters, and WoW knows there settings so I guess somehow when I used the WoW.exe instead of the launcher, the files move.

[alcattle]

WoW must have changed something as I cannot create new toons and find where they are saved. Complete searches can't find a placeholder for toons.
CAN someone test this: IS user, Bnet user, create a new toon any realm and play it long enough to have a file saved (one or 2 quests?), Then look for the toon in WTF/account/subaccountname/realm/toon

IS has all the toon before the Bnet change, whether they were in a team or not, but the new toons are not on my hard drive.

[Lax]

If you run WoW in non-Administrator on Vista or later, it might be putting these files in your Users folder instead of the WoW folder (Something like Users\Public\World of Warcraft\WTF). If that's the case, you can copy it over to the main WoW folder, or try running WoW as administrator when you do your log in thing.

[alcattle]

II have search the computer for the files. I also moved the WTF file, but it did not recreate one so I and stumped.

[Ualaa]

I just created a DK as an experiment.
Closing ISBoxer Toolkit and then reopening.
It does detect the new toon for me.

Not sure why yours does not.

I'd have to ask if you have changed anything on your system recently.
And if so, suspect that is the culprit.

[alcattle]

Thanks for confirming it is a local problem and not something from the last patch/ bnet upgrade. I am really stumped, not only with the lost toons but why is the system not re-creating the WTF file. Could it be the HD is in Read Only mode?? Any other thoughts?

[Ualaa]

Well it was working at some point and is not now.
If you changed anything on your system that is the suspect.

You could try running the repair tool, not sure if there is a wow error.
I always tell it to not reset my interface etc.
I can always just rename folders to rule out addons or settings without resetting them.

Not really sure what could cause that.

[alcattle]

You and Lax both are right, I think. The time when the problem started was also the day that we had 2-3 hacked account reports. I also started using wow.exe to log on with. I also changed my PASSWORD. Guess who might not be an administrator now!! :eek: I will test this theory when I get home from work. Will keep all you great people posted. :confused::rolleyes::mad:

[alcattle]

Lax was dead on, the problem was the UAC. It would not save anything to WoW. Moved the old WTF back and all is fine. Got the new toons in a team and now just need to adjust their spells.
One good thing to come from this is I got to see the intro movie to WotLK again.:o