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As a student I tend to travel a lot between home, the train and my parents and being somewhat an addon addict I was getting very frustrated having to update all of them although curse helps whit that. It does not update/sync your settings so if you changed your gearset or your layout you will have to do this all over again. In this howto ill explain how you can sync all your addons and settings and screenshots.

What you need:
Windows Vista or Windows 7 (Windows XP will [b]NOT WORK[/b])
A Free Dropbox account

What will this guide do:
You will create hardlink (a fancy shortcut to a folder)
You will install dropbox (a sync/backup tool)

The basic idea of this guide will work on a mac and Dropbox does support mac but you will have to lookup how you can make a hardlink to the dropbox folder

Getting WoW and Dropbox locations

First thing to do after you registerd an account at Dropbox is to download/install Dropbox on your computer. It’s pretty straight foreword I don’t expect you will have any problems whit this. After you installed locate your dropbox folder. You can easily do this by right clicking on the Dropbox icon and click open dropbox folder. I like to remove all the default folders but ill leave that to you.

Now Remember the location of your dropbox copy this to a text file for now. It should look like: C:\users\mydropbox you do this by clicking in the address bar so it turns from Computer>Disk>My dropbox folder to C:\My dropbox folder (for example)

This is when the fun starts, Brows to your WoW Folder then to WTF then account and open your account folder.

click in the adressbar again

For me this is (C:\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\RIJKVUNDERINK)
Now copy the location of this folder to your text document.

So now you have have a text file whit: (My locations yours will be different)
Dropbox location: C:\My Dropbox
WoW Settings location: C:\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\RIJKVUNDERINK

Making a Fancy Shortcut

Now we are going to make an hardlink/symlink which are really just fancy short cuts that your system understand. To do this will have to open the windows command you do this by: Clicking Start and typing: CMD

A black screen appears. Here you type the fallowing but whit your locations:

mklink /j “*Your dropbox location \ accountname*” “*WoW Settings location*”
mklink /j “C:\My Dropbox\RIJKVUNDERINK” “C:\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\RIJKVUNDERINK” (in mycase)

Well your settings are getting uploaded now you will want to add addons to that as well. In the same black screen type
mklink /j “*Your dropbox location*\AddOns” “*yourwowfolder*\Interface\AddOns”
mklink /j “C:\My Dropbox\AddOns” “C:\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns” (in mycase)

If you would like to sync your screenshots as well you can add the fallowing
mklink /j “*Your dropbox location*\Screenshots” “*Your dropbox location*\Screenshots”
mklink /j “C:\My Dropbox\Screenshots” “C:\World of Warcraft\Screenshots”

We are done Enjoy

So we are done all your settings addons and screenshots are getting backuped to dropbox. You can see the progress by hovering above the dropbox icon. You will need to do this guide on every computer you want sync your settings to. But once you got the hang of this you can do it under 5minuts. Also I would suggest you do the getting started guide on the site you will get some more free space and so will I. And you’ll find out how darn handy it is for other stuff then just WoW.

To make it your self easier next time simply edit the below
mklink /j “C:\My Dropbox\ACCOUNTNAME” “C:\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME”
mklink /j “C:\My Dropbox\AddOns” “C:\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns”
mklink /j “C:\My Dropbox\Screenshots” “C:\World of Warcraft\Screenshots”