Originally Posted by JAG2_1977
man did i just learn alot in two posts. formed a few wrinkles in my brain from reading all that. (wrinkles are the physical/biological reaction to new information being retained in long term memory. lol)
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If it helps to make things simpler on you when installing other addons ....
The wow client will only look 1 branch down when looking for a toc file to load. A toc file is a file called something like addonname.toc
Only 1 branch of the tree deep.
IE
/Applications/World Of Warcraft/Interface/Addons/AddonA/AddonA.toc
= WIN ! (ie it should load and have an entry in the addons screen , selectable from the character screen). It's always going to be like this no matter how many parts an addon has.
/Applications/World Of Warcraft/Interface/Addons/AddonA3.2/AddonA/AddonA.toc
/Applications/World Of Warcraft/Interface/Addons/AddonA3.2/AddonAOptions/AddonA.toc
= FAIL !
The last example won't work because theres no toc files at that 1st level of the tree for our poor wow client to see. So for example Auctioneer unzips into about 9 folder , each with a toc file inside it. It's those 9 folders you put in your addons folder not the folder it unzips to.
So when trying a new addon for the first time remember : The wow client will only look 1 level deep in the tree.
Is that a bit clearer for you
PS Don't worry about the whole mac thing. Many addon authors and addon site admins use them as well (off the top of my head Kaelten,ck knight , netcurse...)