About a year ago, I bought a new computer. I reinstalled the game in full from the game server, however, I copied my WTF folder from my old computer to my new computer. That folder contains all my add-ons as well. I use curseforge for add-ons and I simply had it search for add-ons on my computer when I installed it. It found them and all seemed fine until about the start of TWW.
Since the start of TWW, I get a lot of LUA error, which I expect with out of date add-ons. I usually just turn off the effected add-on until I see it updated. Today, I was playing with Macros, trying to create an add-on that would execute 3 chat functions and output to guild chat. I was unsuccessful, and ultimately giving up. I went on to do a World Quest, and as soon as I arrived in the aria of the World Quest, the game locked up to the point where I had to access my task manager and force close WoW. I logged back in after restarting my computer only to find myself back where I started when I logged in and started playing with those Macros. The Macros I created were gone. And my UI was reset to when I logged out 2 days ago.
What I’m wondering is, should I at this point completely delete the game from my computer including the WTF folder I have been using for 15 years, and just start from scratch?
Ok, so what caused the game to crash so catastrophically that I had to force close through the task manager instead of just right-clicking on the game on the task bar like I usually do? I have never seen a crash like that in the 15 years I’ve been playing. Also, why am I getting more LUA errors than usual? I mean I even get them when I have the out of date add-on turned off.
Lots of LUA errors could be a sign that a UI reset would be a good idea. You don’t need to delete the entire game, just the cache, wtf, and interface folders. You can just re-name them, that way you keep a copy and if for some reason that doesn’t fix anything you can name them back.
within the world of warcraft folder. You enter that folder, then choose the game version for example _retail_, then in that folder there is a cache, WTF, and Interface folder. https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/7549