TRP Profile Restoration

I wasn’t sure if this was supposed to go in the ‘general’ section of this forum but as it is an issue related to roleplay, I figured here would be best place to start:
So here’s the story…
My girlfriend deleted her WTF folder and with it her profiles. She had backups for everyone of her characters EXCEPT for the newest one she leveled and made a TRP for.
I understand that it is possible to restore TRP profiles but it is a hassle. However, thankfully, I have TRP as well and I have met her character so it is stored in my directory so if worst comes to worst, I’ll do a bit of magic and figure out how to restore her profile manually.
However I was looking around and couldn’t find the said “totalrp3.lua” folder folks went on about. I furthermore couldn’t find anything in my retail/wtf/account/savedvariables folder. It was simply empty. I did however find a bunch of lua folders if I went into my account name, picked a realm, went into one of my characters (this one, Rookai) and I found lua files for some of my addons.

I couldn’t find this mythical totalrp3.lua file and no form of the derivation of “trp3” seemed to work to finding it.
Is this information stored elsewhere and if so, can I even access the directory profiles?
Because if I were able to do that, I should be able to just copy over her character and she could put it into her folders… wherever these files now would go.

I would appreciate any help I could receive as a rewrite ain’t something she wanna do.
Thanks and have a good one! ^^

I actually dug this out a couple of weeks ago for a friend, and yeah, it takes a while - I found a bunch actually. Try finding the last toon you had who saw her TRP before the wipe, and searching the logs in that folder for totalRP3_Data.lua

If her data isn’t in there, just search all the others, too. I found my friend’s on an old pally I hadn’t logged in on in weeks.

One thing to note, and this may be overly cautious, but do not let any of your characters see your girlfriend’s toon BEFORE you get the TRP updated. Near as I can tell, if one lua updates, they may all update.

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