Since day 1, and every day since, I have been trying to make my usual Macros for the game but nothing ever saves (icon, name of macro), and there’s no button created when I do “save” so can’t move it to a hotbar. Really would like this to be opened up for players so we can test this too.
Is there an ETA for when we can start using them?
I’ve had 0 issues with macros. That sounds like a local file issue. Try finding your macro cache file and deleting that. When you launch the game again it should recreate the file fresh.
Click new macro first, then choose name and icon, then save. If you just start typing in the box nothing happens
lol if thats the issue i’m gonna cry XD
Oh! I assumed they just are not letting anyone use it for now during beta … ugh, ok. I didn’t know it was a me thing. All right I’ll look up how to do that. Thanks
Find your wow folder then classic beta > WTF > Account > (your account # named folder) > macro variables files
Found it, and deleted it (first i opened it, nothing in it, totally blank txt file). All right, I’ll go try “saving” a macro now. lol
Thanks again!
How I always have made them. Name/Icon first then make the macro, whatever it may be.
Did that work? If not you might need to verify integrity or message bliz support.
I went and checked on the other 2 computers, wifes, etc and Macro-saving does NOT work on theirs either (doing other work on this computer currently so can’t check for a bit). crossing fingers it does work, as a warrior I really need very specific macros for grouping.
In that folder there are two macro cache files. Your macros and a backup file. If deleting the first one doesn’t work you might need to delete both and verify integrity to get fresh macro files. Though its weird its happening on multiple computers. Though if you downloaded it when the beta first went live I can see you both getting a corrupt file. Their dl servers were chugging.
I tricked it into allowing the New button to work. I went to my era folder and literally copied a macro-block from there into the forever macro txt file and now I can make additional macros here in beta. Previously [starting with] clicking “New” never once worked. Now it does.
Lol nice work around. Glad its working now. XD
The system wide ones seem broke to me. But the character specific ones are working. See if this helps.
Start by pressing “new”
The ui let’s you start typing in your macros but it doesn’t save unless the macro already exists or you’ve started by pressing the new button.
I’ve had this same issue since the first classic servers released and tried everything. Something about permissions may fix it, but I ended up having to make addon library of macros so it can never be forgotten again to import.