If your addons went nuts with PvE realm release, CHECK THIS

[Ana]

Hey, I'm just going to copy Bazinga's post here because it describes the solution very well. Thought it deserves a topic of its own though, since nobody has the patience to look through dozens of inconspicious topics to MAYBE find something relevant to the problem.

So, here we go:

Name of realms will changed:
* Existing one will change to "Nostalrius Begins PvP",

That is not well thought since it will be a big mess up for many people and their config files. It's not just the folder to rename. Many addons save their settings with the realmname.

like auctioneer:


and many more:
MoveAnything
IgnoreMore
SuperMacro
and so on

for people who don't know how to search and replace a string in every file in a whole folder structure, download notepad ++ , open it, push ctr+f and do this

Edit: dont forget to change the folder name in .../WTF/Account/<youraccountname>/ from Nostalrius Begins to Nostalrius Begins PvP. Otherwise the client will just create a new one with new addons settings and ignore the one you edited with Notepad++. If that happens, just exit the game, delete the new folder with its settings and rename the old one you previously edited with Notepad++.

[gotmilk0112]

Can confirm this worked; logged in to find addons reset, did this and now they're back to normal.

[Jeddite]

Thank you for this. Re-doing mods for 8+ characters every patch was something I never enjoyed about retail WoW.

[heradura]

Now I know why stuff like DUF wasn't copying over to the PTR. Cool.

EDIT: Never mind, DUF is still retarded. Oh well.

[Euronymous]

Visibility bump.

Thanks , crisis averted.

[belshazzaresque]

just a note to any lazy cunts like me who logged on before doing the fix for auctioneer:
don't find and replace "begins-" with "begins-pvp" (ignored all items with begins in the name at least) because it just causes more hastle than typing in "nostalrius begins" instead

long story short I had 2 entries for "nostalrius begins pvp": the original data I had and a load of blanks from when i logged on before doing the fix. the blanks overwrote the actual data though when logging in. so glad I had a backup so I could thence do it with the suggested search

[Tosicx]

Thanks for sharing this, it worked 100%!

[Muhsogyny]

Allahu Akhbar

[Jeddite]

For Tommy -- who asked.