All my auras all suddenly disappeared. Yet I did not do any manipulation of the addon. How can I find my auras?
#auras disappeared without reason
wide crest
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flat wedgeBOT
If you login and your WeakAura's are missing, go to the World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\<ACCOUNTNAME>\SavedVariables folder and check the WeakAuras.lua file. If it is empty, check the WeakAuras.lua.bak file. If that one has content, delete WeakAuras.lua and rename WeakAuras.lua.bak to WeakAuras.lua. If WeakAuras.lua.bak was also empty, you will need to to rely on backups or remake your Auras.
*Window's hides file extensions by default so you will need to turn these on which you can do by going to Control Panel > Appearance and Personalistion > File Explorer Options > View tab in the new window and untick Hide extensions for known file types
If you have not made backups or don't use the WA Companion (it makes backups for you) then as a last resort you can try putting the following in to chat in game:
/run local L=WeakAuras.LoadFromArchive local h,m=L("Repository","history"),L("Repository","migration")for _,r in ipairs{h,m}do for _,s in pairs(r.stores)do local d=s:Load()WeakAurasSaved.displays[d.id]=d end end C_UI.Reload()
If you are having errors we need a copy of the entire error's text to be able to help.
See this message for details on getting detailed Lua errors:
https://discordapp.com/channels/172440238717665280/413380679410384896/722189624579194973
wide crest
WeakAuras.lua is not empty, what have i to do ?
wide crest
I followed your instructions and installed the debug addons, the minimap icon is green, this indicates that Weakauras is working correctly. However, my auras have all disappeared without explanation and the weakAuras.lua file is not empty at all. What should I do ?
reef raven
Is your weakauras addon enabled? Do you have multiple installations of WoW?
wide crest
WA is enabled and icon of minimap is on. I have just one installation of wow
do you want see my weakauras.lua ?
wide crest
Is this a common bug or have you seen it before?
reef raven
if your weakauras.lua file isn't empty I'd make sure that you save a backup copy of it just incase. WoW usually overwrites that when you logout.
after you save a back-up. Try making a new aura, exiting the game, restart and see if the one you created still exists. Then double check your weakauras.lua file and see if it was overwritten with the new single aura or not.
wide crest
My new auras are still there after a reconnection. Then I don't quite understand the verification you are asking me to do. Do you want me to compare the code contained in the 2 weakauras.lua files, the previously saved one and the current one?
reef raven
yea if your newly created auras exist when you logged back in a new weakauras.lua file should've been written with those auras only. If they aren't in the file then you're looking in the wrong folder
ie-the auras you see in game and the ones in the file should match after you close out the game.
wide crest
Weakauras.lua is a file full of lines of code, how can I know if the auras of the game correspond to the contents of this file?
reef raven
Ctrl+F for the names of the auras
wide crest
So I did some research. The .lua file in the "World of Warcraft_retail_\Interface\AddOns\WeakAuras" folder does not contain any of the new or old auras I had installed. On the other hand I found another .lua file on "World of Warcraft_retail_\WTF\Account\LAVI91\SavedVariables", this one contains all the new auras that I install now. This last folder also contains a .lua.bak file. It's crazy, I don't understand anything...