Addons loading old versions

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After the last weekly reset, my addons have been loading old version from back in 9.0 (raider.io, weakauras and bigwigs are the 3 big ones). raider.io for example shows my 9.0 raid progress and m+ scores. Bigwigs also notifys me thaat its 32 versions out of date.

All my addons are actually up to date, checked as of this morning.

i tried un-installing and re-installing wow with my wtf and interface folders backed up, but that didnt do the trick.

Any ideas on a fix? its an issue ive never had or head of anyone having before.

thanks!

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You probably have two addon directories: the one that your addon manager things is correct, and the real one with outdated addons.

The only reason I can think of for this would be that you have two full World of Warcraft installations, and the one the Battle.net launcher is using is the outdated one.

You need to look around your hard drive for (A) what folder Battle.net thinks World of Warcraft is installed in, and (B) what folder your addon manager thinks. If they’re not the same, you need to update the settings of one or the other.

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Are you sure that the addon tab you are using is your correct retail version and not classic? Once this happened to me and I was so confused :rofl:

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Most addon updaters will look for header information stored within the addon folder, and they use this to check the major / minor revisions. Here is some information how to manually download updates and / or check them yourself:

Summary

NOTE: Some addon updaters store their own information in the headers, vs using official repositories. When it goes out of date, you won’t get any updates, and it also won’t recognize newer versions ( developer made a mistake / stopped updating the program, or another addon updater changed the headers so none of the updaters can recognize the addon etc. )

Addon Search Websites:

1.) https://wow.curseforge.com/addons

2.) https://www.wowace.com/addons

3.) https://www.wowinterface.com/addons.php

Example of what most direct download links would look like based on the site:

1.) https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/<insert_addon_name_here>/download

2.) https://www.wowace.com/projects/<insert_addon_name_here>/files/latest

3.) https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/<insert_addon_page_name_here> 

4.) https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/<insert_addon_page_name_here>.html

This could be automated with WGET over HTTPS obviously and ZLIB. Of course you would have to use YACC / Bison, or some other framework to parse the headers first, and then compare vs the latest revisions:

Comparison of parser generators -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_parser_generators

GNU Bison -> https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/

GNU Wget -> https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

OpenSSL 3.0.x -> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tags

Strawberry Perl -> https://strawberryperl.com/

Quick Assist Engine for OpenSSL -> https://github.com/intel/QAT_Engine/releases

Quick Assist Sub-Module: Intel Multi-Buffer Crypto for IPsec Library -> https://github.com/intel/intel-ipsec-mb/releases

Libuv -> https://github.com/libuv/libuv/releases/

Libxml2 -> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/tags

Zlib -> https://www.zlib.net/

GeoIP Legacy C Library -> https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c/releases

GeoIP2 Library / MaxMind DB -> https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/releases

Libp11 ( PKCS#11 engine for OpenSSL ) -> https://github.com/OpenSC/libp11/releases

P11-kit ( PKCS#11 engine for OpenSSL ) -> https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/releases

NSS -> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_81_RTM/src/

OASIS PKCS 11 TC -> https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=pkcs11

PKCS#11 git repo -> https://github.com/oasis-tcs/pkcs11

Libedit -> https://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/

Libidn2 -> https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/-/tags

You could also try to compile your own addon updater if you wanted with a free IDE:

Visual Studio Community workload and component IDs:

VS2017 -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/workload-and-component-ids?view=vs-2017

VS2019 -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/workload-and-component-ids?view=vs-2019

VS2022 -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/workload-and-component-ids?view=vs-2022

Visual Studio Dev Essentials ( VS 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 ) -> https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/dev-essentials/

Visual Studio Older Downloads -> https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/

Embarcadero C++ Builder Community Edition -> https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder/starter

Eclipse IDE for Embedded C/C++ Developers -> https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/

Oracle Developer Studio -> https://www.oracle.com/application-development/developerstudio/

MYSYS2 ( Mingw-w64 + Clang / LLVM ) -> https://www.msys2.org/
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