How to remove unused addons lua settings
Hi,
once there was the old curse client that have a function to delete the unused (not present anymore) addons setting *.lua and *.bak . This very handy functionality was removed in the new Curse/Twitch client. I don't find in Minion either. So I am here to ask if there is a program, a batch file, something that could do the job. Thanks. |
Sort by date modifed and delete the ones not updated when you last exited WoW + all the .bak files, as far as I know, they've never been used but they will come back for current addons.
Edit: I don't believe any Blizzard (non addon) information is stored in .lua files (.wtf, .txt and .md5) so a search in Explorer from the WTF\Account level for *.lua and *.bak should get them all in two sweeps. |
I deleted an addon several weeks ago using the Twitch-branded Curse Client and it asked me about the saved variables as usual. I may have to double check if they were actually deleted or something very recently changed.
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The " Curse Client" never did delete ALL saved variables. If the addon created SV's per character, also, the Client never deleted them. It was pretty good otherwise. I don't know anything at all about the Twitch Client as my computer got fried in late August of last year (2016) and I don't know when I'll have the resources to replace it.
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I wrote this Windows Command script a long time ago to get rid of extraneous backup files and abandoned saved variables.
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@echo off Make sure the initial pushd is pointing to your WoW account directory. The path I used is the default. |
That is fantastic. Just tested it, cleaned a few files out but everything else is still there. Good work.
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I agree.
This is reaaaallly fantastic :) P.s. Probably we could avoid the delete of the Blizzard related settings ? CharSV: Blizzard_ClientSavedVariables Delete: Blizzard_ClientSavedVariables CharSV: Blizzard_RaidUI Delete: Blizzard_RaidUI CharSV: Blizzard_TimeManager Delete: Blizzard_TimeManager Or it is safe to delete ? :) |
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That looks like an old DOS script. Would I save that as something.bat or somesuch?
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There's actually a utility called WoWClean on this very site that was uploaded back in 2006 that does this. I've used it for years and never had a problem with it. Also comes with the source if anyone wanted to modify/check it out.
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I finally got around to using SDPhantom's script, which I modified the path to my WoW directory. It worked flawlessly, as far as I can tell.
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Random improvement thought for SDPhantom's script, although I have long forgotten how it would be done: is there a way to @echo which SV files were deleted?
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:: echo Delete: %%~nl Code:
CharSV: ZZZ |
Code in this Thread still works Great
Finally cleaned up years of add-ons I tried and deleted and tried and deleted. Over 1500 files and 40mb of useless data.:D Works with Retail and Classic with the respective paths entered in the first line. Thanks for this!
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