I have a single battle.net (b.net) account with three subaccounts in it. The first is "RICFISCHER", the second is a "WoW1" account (an attempt to use Recruit-A-Friend, but I goofed and am stuck with it in my list), and "WoW2". These are the names of the subaccounts as they appear in my login screen.
However, the WoW1 and WoW2 names do not match the names in my WTF/Accounts folder. The folder names are:
- 50431150#1
- 50431150#2
- RICFISCHER
This creates at least one problem. Namely, when I do /gcp export, the data is stored in a folder that GCP knows nothing about. My WoW2 character is a Hunter and the main GCP interface cannot import the spells from him.
There is a workaround for this. In my case, I needed WoW2 as a folder to transparently point to the contents of 50431150#2. On Windows Vista, there's a command called mklink. TechRepublic has a nice article on it and also on a tool that does the same job for Windows XP since XP didn't include this too.
To do this, I clicked the Start button and in the Start Menu's search box, I typed CMD and pressed CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER. This attempts to run the command in Administrator mode, which means if you have User Access Control turned on, it's going to ask for permission to continue.
Use the CD command to find your WTF\Accounts folder. My CD command was:
cd "C:\Games\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account"
then the mklink command I used was:
mklink /d WoW2 50431150#2
(The article I linked above explains the /d option as one which will create a directory link to another directory.)
After I did this, I was able to import all my spells, including my Hunter's.
I hope this helps other people.
Yeah I just recently noticed this. All account created since the B.Net enforcement are now called WoW1, WoW2, etc.
To work around this:
When filing out the Team Information select the actual name of the folder from the list for sub account(ie. 50431150#2). Once you have filled out all the information and Saved the profile click the 'Settings' button for each character. Select accountList from the list and change any of the folder names to there matching Sub account name. Click Update and Save.
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