No AddOns Button

koobz · 05-02-05, 04:13 PM

Hi there,

My buddy sent me a bunch of Add-ons to try with WoW. When I copied them to D:\Program Files\World Of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns and load then load the game, I don't see the AddOns button in the lower left corner of the Character Selection Screen. The Addons are in there own folders under the Interface\Addons folder with all their respective files in then. I checked the XML files to see if they were hard coded for the C drive but they're not. I tried searching for posts with similiar problems, but couldn't fnd any.

Please Help!!

***Cairenn*** · 05-02-05, 05:05 PM

Okay, using just one of the addons he sent you as an example, post your exact install path, please? From starting point (C drive, D drive, whatever) right through until individual files within the addon.

koobz · 05-02-05, 05:20 PM

I was wrong, it was the E drive but regardless, here it what you requested:

E:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\SellValue\*.*

***Cairenn*** · 05-02-05, 05:23 PM

*blink*

That's the exact install path? And that is the same place that your actual World of Warcraft game runs from? The *.* is the files, there aren't any more folders between ..\SellValue and the *.*?

koobz · 05-02-05, 05:25 PM

Nevermind, I'm an idiot.

I guess when my buddy sent me the RAR of all the mods, and after extracting it to the wrong drive, it still created all the WoW folders (minus the files.) That is what confused me. Thanks for helping me give my head a shake.

***Cairenn*** · 05-02-05, 05:27 PM

Ahhh, okay, so it just went to the wrong place, your actual *correct* WoW directory is elsewhere?

Glad to have helped.

Kosuke · 06-01-07, 12:18 PM

I'm having the same problem but I think its for different reasons... If anyone can help that would be great!

Grizzly UK · 06-01-07, 01:16 PM

Try following the instructions that Cairenn described above, post your exact install path, from the root drive right through to one of your installed addons folder. Like this:

D:\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\Atlas

It's also worth checking what folders you have in your World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns folder, if you see another Interface or Addons folder then check what's inside those. If you see any more folders then move them up to the actual Addons folder. Just to clarify that, if you see either (change Atlas in these for the name of the installed addon(s) you have):

World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\Interface\AddOns\Atlas

or

World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\AddOns\Atlas

Then they are wrong, in these examples you would need to move the Atlas folder up to the first Addons folder. Once you've moved all addon folders then the extra \Interface\AddOns and/or \AddOns folder(s) can be deleted.

Simply put, all addons must be installed directly to your World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns folder. If it helps, look for the default Blizzard addons such as:

World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\Blizzard_AuctionUI

Hope this helps resolve your problem.

dragonfist · 06-19-08, 02:18 PM

hi iam having the same problem and i have the blizzardUI files in the c:/worldof warcraft/interface/addons file but i am still not getting the addon button can you tell me what i am doing wrong.....I have them working on pc this is my friends pc i am trying to load them on and they aren't working....but i put hte path that they are loaded to.....

ituneman · 04-08-11, 01:30 PM

i recently bought a laptop and installed WoW onto it but it hasnt completed the installation yet its still got 5 GB to go but im in the green. Anyway i put some addons into the addons folder but then i went to turn them on in the character selction screen and the button in the left hand corner wasnt there.
any suggestions?
thanks

Nobgul · 04-08-11, 01:59 PM

What operating system is the laptop running? Sounds like it could be the Virtual Store in Windows....

ravagernl · 04-08-11, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by ituneman

i recently bought a laptop and installed WoW onto it but it hasnt completed the installation yet its still got 5 GB to go but im in the green. Anyway i put some addons into the addons folder but then i went to turn them on in the character selction screen and the button in the left hand corner wasnt there.
any suggestions?
thanks

The installation bar is in the green because this is the new streaming client, it means that it will download data as you play. So if you are in westfall it will try to download data before downloading stranglethorn vale for instance.

Have you read http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=1236

In my opinion "Anyway i put some addons into the addons folder" is not descriptive enough

Of more importance are the following questions:

3. What is the name of the mod? Provide a link for it;

4. What steps did you take to install the mod? Post your install path;

5. Be as descriptive as you can. Just posting you cant get xyz mod to work will result in no responce to your help request. The more information you can provide the faster some one will be able to respond with a helpful answer. Describe what AddOns you have installed, what you did that caused the problem, exactly what happens;

6. list the things you've tried and what happened for each of them.

ituneman · 04-09-11, 04:50 AM

Im running on a 64-bit operating system

Taryble · 04-09-11, 10:08 AM

XP 64? Vista x64? Win7 x64? MacOS? Some Linux distro? It actually matters (and yes, there IS a 64-bit XP).

ituneman · 04-10-11, 01:28 PM

windows 7 64

Smog498 · 07-17-11, 06:13 PM

I have a simlar problem, heres my install path: C: > Program Files > Interface > Addons. I'm trying to run the original Atlas mod and i saved it to the Addons folder and ran the game but no red bar. Please help?

Smog498 · 07-17-11, 06:42 PM

Nevermind I fixed it, I had the Addons saved in "program files", when i copied them to the "world of warcraft" folder and started the game the Addons button showed up.

Lohva · 09-18-11, 01:33 AM

This seems to be a common issue. I also couldn't find the addons button on my char screen and had serious trouble getting it right.

You need to unzip the addon.zip-file in your AddOns-folder, (c:> world of warcraft > interface > addons >) or wherever your addons-folder is located.
HOWEVER, most of the .zip-files contains an EXTRA folder with the addon name. For example, bongos3. The AddOn in this zip-file lies in an extra folder named "bongos3 1.3". You need to copy all the files and folders INSIDE the "bongos3 1.3"-folder directly to the AddOns-folder. Yes i know, it will be a lot of folders and stuff in your AddOns-folder, but the thing is.. that you need to have the .toc and the .iua-files (who are the "program-files" for the addon)
in the Interface/Addons/Bongos3-folder. Not in the Interface/Addons/Bongos3 1.3/Bongos3-folder which they automatically fall into if you just unzip the addon in your addons.folder.

Hope it makes any sense.. Yeah, and if you already have installed a lot of addons in the wrong way, you need to delete them or correct them, or else the addons button will just disappear again. Happened to me.

Hope this will help