%wow% = your WoW installation folder.
%accountName% = your account log-in name.
%characterName% = your character's name.
WoW:
I deleted my WTF, WTB, and Interface folders from WoW the other day trying to kill off the severe mess my various chat channels had become. To my chagrin, I discovered macros are stored locally on your computer at %wow%\Account\%accountName%\macros-local.txt. This is a plain-text file. I find it very difficult to read the in-game WoW font when it comes to creating/editing macros, so if you're even somewhat good at reading computer syntax you might find it easier to edit that file directly using notepad. The format of a single macro looks like this:
MACRO 1 "Assist" Ability_CheapShot.blpUnfortunately notepad doesn't correctly process the carriage returns (know one that might Scott?), but you'll figure it out. "Macro 1" defignes the slot it occupies in the /macros window. "Assist" is the name you gave the macro when you created it. "Ability_Cheapshot.blp" is the icon you assigned to it. "/assist Zaxxon" is the macro itself. "END" ends that macro. If there were two macros in this example, "Macro 2" would follow "END" Macros are global to an entire account, so whatever I create for Big Tat also appears in the /macro window for Lil'Tat.
/assist Zaxxon
END
I put a lot of work into laying-out chat windows and assigning specific channels to them on Big Tat. If only there were a way to copy all those settings to my alts so I don't have to do it over and over.... oh wait, there is! Channel assignments, chat window location, and chat window size are all stored in %wow%\WTF\Account\%accountName%\%characterName%\chat-cache.txt. This document is also plain-text, but without an editor that properly processes the carriage returns, I've not looked at it hard enough to offer specific advice on hand coding it. It's pretty long. What I do is log in to Big Tat, get everything set up just how I like it, then exit the game and copy this file to each character that I want to use it on. I also back it up on my desktop since my channels always eventually get screwed up again.
Cosmos Specifics:
SkyChannels. You don't really know quite what they're for, and they're always spaming your chat channels. I've finally figured out a little bit of how they work. Basically, Cosmos uses these channels to pass information between your client and other players. Even though I don't use it, I know Raid Minion is an example of one of the add-ons that uses this system. The reason we end up getting screwed up is Sky automatically joins a chat channel that it constantly reads this information from. These channels are supposed to always remain hidden from you. Nevertheless, if you then go and disable the Raid Minion or Sky add-ons the channels un-hide, but the game does not remove them. That's how you end up getting Sky spam.
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