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Last Update:	Dec. 2, 2007 (9 months ago)
Category:	Unit Frames
Tags:	addon, friends, interface, and list
Project Manager:	Kring
Current Version:	FriendsShare Resurrection 9. (for World of Warcraft 2.3.0)
Downloads Today:	12
Downloads Total:	11,872
Favorites:	356
Comments:	49

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Created On:	Dec. 25, 2006

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Kring

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About FriendsShare Resurrection

FriendsShare Resurrection is an AddOn that lets you keep the same friends list across characters, on a per server basis.

If you add or remove someone from your friends list and relog to an alt, that person will be added/removed from the alts friends list as well. Also, any entries on that alts list which isn't in the global list, will be added to the other characters whenever you log them in.

Basically, you never have to manually rebuild your friends list when creating alts, or worry about keeping them current on all your alts.

This all works seamlessly without any user intervention.

As an additional plus, if Blizzard decides to clean out the friends list, this Addon will automatically rebuild your friend list. This clean out happens sometimes during server maintenance. :-)

Known issue: If you try to add someone to your friends list and the server won't let you do it (say, if a Horde char tries to add an Alliance char to the list, or you misspell the name), that entry will still end up on the global list, and so you'll get the error message you got trying to add it, every time you log on. So, if this happens to you, do '/friendsshare rebuild' and the global list will be rebuilt from that char's list, and all invalid entries discarded.

This Addon was written originally by Oystein, all credit belongs to him.

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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HerbertJaeger said
July 23, 2008, 02:41PM (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
It's really a great addon ... but I could need some help.
Some of my chars have a lot of "unknown" friends in their friendslist. I´m not able to remove them. I deleted the addon and these "unknown" entries are still there.
/friendsshare rebuild did not work.
What can i do to fix that ?

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Kring said
April 21, 2008, 04:32PM (4 months, 2 weeks ago)
That's strange. It should only run once while logging in.

Could you please try the following? After you logged in, open the
friend list. Does it print the message:

"FriendsShare Resurrection: friends list not ready, will try again later."

or

"FriendsShare Resurrection: friends list synced."

or none? It should actually print none. If it prints none, it
should no longer be active because it already fulfilled it's job.

Hmm...

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jadonchristensen said
April 20, 2008, 03:55PM (4 months, 2 weeks ago)
My GF and I started freezing up taking the boat from Darkshore to Azuremyst. Two different computers, separate ISPs, etc. CPU usage topped 100% on both machines when the game froze at the boat loading screen. The only way to stop this from happening was to disable this mod. No other mods seem to cause this problem. Any ideas?

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Kring said
Dec. 3, 2007, 07:13PM (9 months, 1 week ago)
Use
/friendsshare rebuild
to rebuild the internal database. No need to change the saved variable by hand.

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Corydon said
Dec. 3, 2007, 12:06PM (9 months, 1 week ago)
Quote:
"Also, I have a friend who is longer than the internal length used for names in FSR. Physchoactive is my friend, and FSR tries to add Phychoactiv (no e)."

Answer:
Physchoactive is different from Phychoactiv(e).

I guess the correct player's name ist Phychoactive, since names cannot be more than 12 characters long.

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bhroam said
Dec. 2, 2007, 07:31PM (9 months, 1 week ago)
Is it possible to have FSR to notice that a friend is no longer on the server. When I log on, I get a couple "Player Not Found" message. The workaround I found was just to delete the FSR saved variables file from WTF.

Also, I have a friend who is longer than the internal length used for names in FSR. Physchoactive is my friend, and FSR tries to add Phychoactiv (no e).

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Kring said
Dec. 2, 2007, 04:11PM (9 months, 1 week ago)
You cannot sync the ignore list because you can only put online players on ignore. This is different
from the friend list.

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Kring said
Dec. 2, 2007, 04:10PM (9 months, 1 week ago)
Added the extension Jiral suggested. Thanks. Version 9 should appear shortly.

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Kuriostone said
March 7, 2007, 11:47AM (1 year, 6 months ago)
Does this mod also affect ignore lists? If not, are there plans for that functionality? If not, can you direct me to one that does please? Thank you =0)

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Jiral said
Feb. 26, 2007, 07:50AM (1 year, 6 months ago)
The next time you're making changes to this, could you update the check you make when syncing friends to include:
" and not (index == string.lower(UnitName("player")))"
This will allow me to add my alts to my friends list without receiving the "you cant add yourself to your friends list" error message when I login.
Other than this one minor annoyance, I love this Addon. Does one thing and does it well.

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Quinten said

Feb. 13, 2007, 02:42PM (1 year, 6 months ago)

@Kring:

 The only time I get a Friends List Synched message is when I load my main toon.  Any of my other alts gets the error, specifically because of the number of friends being added.  Some kind of time out needs to be included so that it gives the UI time to add the person and then your mod needs to confirm the addition before proceeding to add the next.

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Kring said
Feb. 8, 2007, 12:44PM (1 year, 7 months ago)
@Quinten
Does the message ever show up, that the list is synced?
Do you see messages that new players are added to the friendlist (the ones from FriendsShare)?
Do they show up before or after the message, that it is synced?
and... are these the new friends that are shown unknown?

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Quinten said

Feb. 6, 2007, 11:37PM (1 year, 7 months ago)

@Kring:

 I can confirm Tsukai's error as well.    First it reports an error, "FriendsShare Ressurection: friends list not ready, will try again later."  and then when you scroll down the list is populated with Unkowns for both name and location.

 If there is another way that I can help you, please let me know.

updated: The problems occurs when you have a new character added and an fairly long list has to be added to the new toon.

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Kring said
Feb. 4, 2007, 10:29AM (1 year, 7 months ago)
Friends Share is not doing anything related to the output of the friends list. It just syncs the list once and then unregisters the event.
What is shown as unknown? The friend name or the location? And the offline friends too?
Could it be another add-on, did you verify this?

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Miko3ed said
Feb. 2, 2007, 09:07PM (1 year, 7 months ago)
I'm getting the same problem Tsukai is, friends showing up in the list as unknown. Rebuild isn't correcting the problem either. Any suggestions???

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aga said
Jan. 29, 2007, 05:18PM (1 year, 7 months ago)
Version 7 worked fine for me. Thanks!

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Kring said
Jan. 29, 2007, 12:52PM (1 year, 7 months ago)
> Still crashes for me, both on startup and on mouseover friends on > titan panel.
How can you mouse over if it crashes on startup? Or does it not always crash on startup?
> I get the usual lua:57 bad argument #1 to 'lower' (string > expected, got nil)
That means, someone/something is calling AddFriend() without an argument. How are you adding a friend if that happens?
> Error on mouseover brings up a message in > chatbox, - adding "target" to friends list and >friends must be part of your alliance.
Mousover what?

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lininjim said
Jan. 29, 2007, 04:03AM (1 year, 7 months ago)
Still crashes for me, both on startup and on mouseover friends on titan panel. I get the usual lua:57 bad argument #1 to 'lower' (string expected, got nil)
Error on mouseover brings up a message in chatbox, - adding "target" to friends list and
friends must be part of your alliance.

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Kring said
Jan. 26, 2007, 02:51PM (1 year, 7 months ago)
Uploaded version 7 which contains the SPAM fix but reverted the change on the event handler. This does no longer crash for me.

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Kring said
Jan. 26, 2007, 12:38PM (1 year, 7 months ago)
Removed version 6 because it crashed WoW. Amazing, what you can do with a few lines of Lua code... :-(

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