So you lost your WTF folder somehow…. maybe forgot to back it up, or it was corrupted when your computer froze.
Hours spent crafting teams to take on those Garrison Pet Battles, and Trainer Battles all-around Azeroth, Wrath of the Lich King….heck, you even had teams for the Timeless Isle.
Spending hours on Xu-Fu creating teams once again is daunting… might even make you say f it… and give up on the pet stuff for a bit.
Use this method to backup your Rematch Teams if you want a quick and straightforward process. You can export your teams from the Rematch add-on inside Warcraft too. That is a more elegant solution offering fine control over what you backup (in case you want to be selective), but it will take significantly longer to not only backup your teams, but also restore them later on.
The Windows Backup Method For WoW Rematch Pets Addon
This method will have you copy the addon files which have your Rematch teams and settings in them, so you will need to be comfortable with opening the WoW folder on your computer. The method is the same for both Windows and Apple, but the path to the WoW folder is different between operating systems.
There’s a program called “Everything“. It’s basically a search program for Windows. It’s absolutely invaluable when it comes to Warcraft (and almost everything else relating to files and backups etc..).
A full WTF backup can sometimes carry problems forward that we’re trying to fix (sometimes, not all the time by any means). A plugin might be totally fine, but its configuration file is messed up in some way, and then you think the plugin is the culprit and stop using a potentially useful and totally fine add-on/plugin.
To backup all of your Rematch settings and teams in one go, just type rematch.lua . If you view the files as detailed (Ctrl Shift 6) then you will see when a file was last modified. If you played Warcraft recently, then you would expect the Rematch file to have been Modified on a day and time that’s not far off today.
Backing Up: Right-click Rematch.lua, Copy, then paste it into a backup folder. If you delete your WTF folder in order to fully reset Warcraft, after you have launched Warcraft, gone into game, and exited (so that it makes a new WTF folder), you can copy your Rematch.lua file back again. It will ask if you want to overwrite the existing file, say yes, then launch Warcraft again and you will see your teams.
You can even right-click and press “Open Path” – this will open a new Window which has Saved Variables for ALL of your Add Ons.
So for example you might want to keep your Rarity, BarTender, HandyNotes, SavedInstances variables … just click each one, right-click and add to zip, or copy and paste to another folder… heck, open Chrome go to Gmail and drag and drop them into an email to yourself (with a useful subject line like “wow add ons backup” so you can search for it in future).
Backing Up World of Warcraft Screenshots
Everything provides a lightning-fast way for you to grab all of your screenshots and place them somewhere for safe-keeping, such as on OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive.
- Type “wowscr” in search and you’ll get all of your WoW screenshots.
- You can select all, and cut and paste them to your desired backup folder.
Back Up World of Warcraft Addons and Settings
Equally, if you type the name of an add-on, you will see all the relevant files. This is very helpful because you have config files for addons, and if you have more than one account, your WTF folder can be come harder to navigate.
More About Everything
Everything is almost instant when it gives search results, it doesn’t go actively searching each time you use it – so it’s quite literally able to do in under a second what can take Windows over 15 minutes to do (in some cases). So we can super quickly get a look at the latest stuff on our computer, e.g. if we organize the list by ‘created on’ or ‘modified on’.
This method is basically like having the coordinates and going straight to what you need…. rather than being given a map and told to explore and look for what you need. This image will explain much better than I have done here – perhaps this is overkill or a bit too ‘extra’, which is no problem, but if you give Everything a try I believe you’ll find it to be very helpful in Windows in general, with taks that previously felt overwhelming and confusing, suddenly being crystal clear.