Macros Deleting?

[Rejuvi]

Im using Keyclone v1.8 and when i log out and come back later sometimes all my macros are gone. It seems to only happen to the personal macros and not the ones that effect all toons on one account. Has this happened to people in the past and is there a easy fix my minute brain is not seeing. (Btw i used the IRC channel which was good. We thought it may have been because I was closing the wow window instead of exiting wow properly but it still occurs).



Thanks in advance... Newb Dual Botting

[ElectronDF]

Your macros only save when you exit WOW. So make one, and exit and see if it stays. Also macros aren't in macros-local.txt, they are in macros-cache.txt
Hope you find what you lost.

[cepheus]

I also know that if you get an wowerror after you have done a macro/ui configuration it wont save. I am note sure if this applys to alt+f4, but if you make many new macros you should allways log out and in again to be sure that it saves.

[Deshu]

Have you changed your WoW UI lately? Have you added any additional add-ons and this happen right after?

This happened to me both times I did the above. I saved copies of my text files as suggested above as well but not before I had to rewrite 3 dozen macros.... twice! inch:

[Slimmoo]

I am having the same issue,

I am running four wow's, each with their own folders, wow1, wow2, wow3, wow4. I am having trouble with Key bindings and macros. The macros won't stay, when i go to create them again there are like echos of the old ones when i grab the icon and try to put them in the right spots. This is very annoying. I even went into each folder ran the wow.exe and did the macros and settings. I closed and went back in to check if they saved and they did. Did this for all of the accounts and when I started them up with keyclone it's like I didn't make any of the changes. Keybindings where gone, macros where missing from some but not all accounts. What the heck is going on? ?(

Anyone have any ideas?

[Otlecs]

I've never suffered this myself, so this is going to be bit random.

Google found me a thread on the Blizzard forums with a blue response.

Make sure you're running WoW as an administrator. Under Vista that means actually right-clicking and selecting "run as administrator" (or setting it as an execution property) rather than just being logged in as an administrator.

Make sure none of the files in any of the game folders are set to read-only.

None of that really explains why SOME would save and others wouldn't. Unless it's always the same ones that don't save, of course, then it could be that the files are set to read-only.

That's far from an absolute solution, but a couple of ideas to try.

If you fix it, please post back what the problem was. I hate it when a question's posed and the OP doesn't have the courtesy to say what the problem was (as in this thread).

[jdraughn]

Make sure you type /quit or hit esc and click the exit button on each window. If you alt-f4 out, or close the windows by right clicking on the taskbar buttons and clicking close, the game does not do a proper shutdown and won't save any changes made to your interface or settings.

[Sarduci]

thread[/url] on the Blizzard forums with a blue response.

Make sure you're running WoW as an administrator. Under Vista that means actually right-clicking and selecting "run as administrator" (or setting it as an execution property) rather than just being logged in as an administrator.

Make sure none of the files in any of the game folders are set to read-only.

None of that really explains why SOME would save and others wouldn't. Unless it's always the same ones that don't save, of course, then it could be that the files are set to read-only.

That's far from an absolute solution, but a couple of ideas to try.

If you fix it, please post back what the problem was. I hate it when a question's posed and the OP doesn't have the courtesy to say what the problem was (as in this thread).

Another simple way to fix that admin thing is to not install under Program Files. Modifying under there requires local admin permissions. I created a folder called Games off of C:\ and I just install any games I load under that.

[Slimmoo]

Thanks for your suggestions.

I figured it out, I think it was a conflict with each wow copy having the all of the accounts info , I guess it was getting confused. I went into the accounts folder for each copy of wow and deleted them. Then I logged into the account I was going to use with the copy of wow. For example, Wow1 only logged in with toon1 account, so that the directory would only have info for that toon. It seems to have worked, second time playing without having to set anything up again woot.

[softflow]

The macros-cache.txt is definitely account-level, so that makes sense you were 'losing' them if you were using WoW1 with Account2 or any combination besides WoW1 with Account1, etc.