Sharing interface and addons settings between multiple accounts

I'm Looking for an effective way for Sharing interface and Addons settings between multiple accounts

The manual file/folders copy and even addons profiles is too old and time consuming.Especially when you work with many accounts

Something that does it in real time,periodicaly or after a logout and after a confirmation ,ofcourse

There should be a way,either an advanced addon ,a software or combination of both

Any suggestions?

I did this with symlinks in my WTF folder structure. Basically you move your character folders from other accounts to your main account and then recreate each alt account's folder as a symlink that points to your main account. I went a step further and symlinked my duplicate classes into a single folder so now if I change a macro or reconfigure an addon on one character it'll be updated on the others. You can even make it all point and click using this shell extension instead of a series of commands.

This is the basic series of steps I use with the shell extension after backing everything up just in case.

Move WTF\Account\ALT_ACCOUNT_NAME\REALM_NAME contents into WTF\Account\MAIN_ACCOUNT_NAME\REALM_NAME
Delete WTF\Account\ALT_ACCOUNT_NAME
Right click WTF\Account\MAIN_ACCOUNT_NAME -> Pick Link Source
Right click anywhere inside WTF\Account -> Drop As -> Symbolic Link

Then rename the newly created folder link to match whatever ALT_ACCOUNT_NAME was originally and you should now have addon profiles available to the alt account and general macros in sync.

There is one massive issue this enables and that is if you have 2+ accounts logged in at once and they all do a clean exit or log out at the same time there's a high chance of addon data being corrupted. So either don't log them all out at the same time or make sure the one with important changes logs out last.

This is what I readed too,about Symlinks and yes i do log with multiply accounts at once and that would be a problem

Maybe something that would synchronize selected file/s / folder/s ,only when its told to

Sadly I haven't come across a solution for that so far.

I believe Reflux addon does something similar in game.It emulates a profile that uses selected addons profiles. Basically you can set all or at least most of addons setting of a character,with several clicks
I m still figuring out how to do it

I wrote a Python script that takes as many files as you want as arguments. Then it finds out which is the file that was modified more recently and copies it over the rest of files. It's useful to me because I'm only interested in synchronising the changes of a certain addon.

Code:

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import os
import shutil
import sys


most_recent_ts = 0
most_recent_file = None
for file in sys.argv[1:]:
    if os.path.getmtime(file) > most_recent_ts:
        most_recent_ts = os.path.getmtime(file)
        most_recent_file = file

for file in sys.argv[1:]:
    if file != most_recent_file and most_recent_ts > os.path.getmtime(file):
        print('Copying %s over %s' % (most_recent_file, file))
        shutil.copyfile(most_recent_file, file)

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Then I launch wow with a .cmd file:

Code:

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python sync.py WTF\Account\ACCOUNT1\SavedVariables\aux-addon.lua WTF\Account\ACCOUNT2\SavedVariables\aux-addon.lua WTF\Account\ACCOUNT3\SavedVariables\aux-addon.lua WTF\Account\ACCOUNT4\SavedVariables\aux-addon.lua WTF\Account\ACCOUNT5\SavedVariables\aux-addon.lua
start /max /high wow.exe

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Also I configured Windows' File History to make constant backups of my WTF folder to avoid the usual poo-poos.

I will try this

Seems a little complicated but if it works its worth