How to keep multiple client installs in sync

[Buzzatronic]

My three box team is about to hit 70 and I plan on starting to play them solo a lot now but I still want to multibox them as well (for the dailies mostly, gotta get paid!).

What I want is for my UI, addons, macros and all other configuration data to get mirrored and synchronized between two different clients so I can play the toon solo on my main machine and still load it up on my secondary machine for multiboxing.

In the past I tried using Foldershare to do this but it made some of my add-ons act very weird when I'd move from one machine to another.

Anyone have any tips on keeping multiple clients in sync across 2 different machines?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I actually wrote a tool that automagically xcopy's my addons across after I run an update on one box. Basically it's a glorified xcopy that just doesn't copy mods to the alt machines unless the mod exists already.

As for your comment about mods acting wierd between the two accounts on the same machine, that goes back to some mods storing their variables on a system-wide basis. The mods that store the data on a per-character basis are easy as you just copy your WTF stuff over and you're golden.

[Khazrael]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Junctioning/Symbolic Links. It solves so many problems with multiple installations. Make separate folders for all your wow accounts, and junction/link your data folders (for patches, patch one and patch all) and for your addon folder if you wish as well. That way, they all come from one central location.

[Buzzatronic]

How does one use junction/symbolic links to synchronize 3 different WoW clients that span two different machines (one running Vista, the other running XP)?

[Dorffo]

How does one use junction/symbolic links to synchronize 3 different WoW clients that span two different machines (one running Vista, the other running XP)?

1. link the two installs that reside on the same machine (read up on the forums here about how to do that, search should yield a few threads ^)
2. create a batch file that uses xcopy to move the files/directories that need to be manually copied (you can do this across a network if you've setup appropriate permissions).

On patch days, or when I decide to redo addons/UI my normal work flow is:
1. update primary install instance on my main machine (1 client, 1 machine) and get kinks worked out
2. run batch file which pretty much consists of (doing htis from memory, syntax is off):

• xcopy c:\wow\ files \\machine2\wow\
• xcopy c:\wow\interface\Addons \\machine2\wow\interface\addons
• etc...
  

*note: I do web dev, and am not an IT guy - so if any IT guys want to chime in and correct this post please do!

[Buzzatronic]

Great, thanks for the links and suggestions. I'll give 'em a try this weekend.

[wougoose]

I also wrote up a little batch file to do some of these tasks. Djarid has actually spent some time writing up a nice GUI as well. The thread is over in the Software secion here . You can find a lot of the commands in that script.

-goose