PowerShell script to create symbolically linked (mklink) copies of WoW

[Chorizotarian]

This is all fascinating to me because I would not think linking to the files would give you any change in performance while loading because the exact same files are being hammered unless by linking it's causing it to be cached in memory differently?.

I assume that the OS resolves the links before deciding if it needs to reload the file or not. Empirically I can tell you that running 5x physical copies off 1 HD was much heavier disk usage than running them linked. Try it for yourself and see!

Also, the WTF are separated by accounts and I just browsed my WTF and I see no config files outside of each account folder so since you can only run 1 toon per account I would think that there should be no conflicts having all WTF in one place and bongos2, possessions should all work properly. Once I get a new system put together I'm going to link all account folders into one location but have the main Config.wtf separate since it contains resolution info and I'll have different sized windows running.

Yeah, you can definitely do this, and the only thing you will have shard is the video settings. I was trying to share all 4 account WTFs to a single settings directory: WTF\account1 -> [clones], WTF\account2 -> [clones], etc. That let me share macros between my clones, but it also meant that the macros and the "account-wide" settings were stomping each other.