Ive used addons many times over the 14-15 years of playing WoW. Been going on for a while.
1- DL the addon from Cursegaming.
2- a- Ive DL’d addon and chose to SAVE in separate folder, then I manually moved it to the addon folder in my WoW properties. Dropping the Addon into /Win86/retail/interface/addon folder.
b-Ive DL’d addon and chose the INSTALL option and it never shows up in folder or anywhere that I can find.
Ive done it many times in the past, no idea whats happened. Thanks for your help
Which addon are you having a problem with?
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…also, when I go into the game, the addon tab on the character screen or ingame. The addon tab isn’t even there lol. damn
Well, first things first: if you haven’t, delete the cache, WTF, and interface folders from the installation directory then launch WoW. See if the addon pane shows up (it’ll be empty obviously but it should be there).
Any of them I pick from Curseforge-com.
TomTom
Recount
Dominoes
Bartender etc
This is me , Meatballzz, the stupid forums are not letting me reply.
Ive deleted all the folders you suggested
Are you seeing the addon tab on the character screen when you launch the game or is it still missing?
“addon” is in the folder when I look into the properties of WoW.
The red addon tab that shows in the character screen is not there, nor is it in the game itself.
Alright. My next guess would be to repair the game. Exit out of WoW and open up the battle.net launcher (if it’s not already up). In the top-left corner of the WoW pane, there should be an Options button (just below the BfA logo). Select that and hit “Scan and Repair” from the dropdown. Let that run and see if it finds anything.
I’m not sure what Win86 is, my Addon path is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns
Maybe that’s the problem?
Did the repair. No repairs needed.
So odd in my /program (86)/worldofwarcraft/retail/interface/addon are the visible addons, there are currently four in the folder, but at character select screen, no addon tab available, in game no tab for addon either.
I did some testing…
I was able to reproduce the missing AddOn tab on the character select screen by renaming my AddOn folder to something other than AddOns. It appears that the folder must be named EXACTLY AddOns. Capitalization doesn’t appear to matter though, which fits with the way Windows (the OS I use) handles file and directory names. If you’re using a Mac though the capitalization might matter due to how Linux (what Mac OS is based on) handles file and directory names. Anything other than AddOns caused errors for me. So if the AddOns folder is indeed named ‘addon’ like in your post above you will not see the AddOn tab.
Additional folders in the directory also appear to cause issues. Even when one of them was named exactly AddOns I still had the AddOns tab missing when there were additional folders in the directory.
So, make sure your AddOns folder is named EXACTLY AddOns and that there are no additional folders in the directory other than the AddOns folder.
The only other suggestion I was able to find is to launch the game directly from the executable for me: C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Wow.exe by right clicking it and selecting ‘Run as administrator’. This didn’t appear to actually work for anyone, but it was suggested, so just figured I would pass it along.