Cosmos a little too agressive when cleaning up

[drewsome]

Hi all,

Everytime I run cosmos and "cosmos thottbot only" it happily cleans out all of my non Cosmos UI mods. In particular I lose squidmod and EquipManager and have to re-install them.

Is there some way to prevent UI mods that are not related to Cosmos from being cleaned out?

[nomad_wanderer]

are you using nopatch files?

Put a DIRECTORYNAME.nopatch (empty text) file in the addons directory

Please try searching or using the wiki... you would have recieved a much faster answer that way..

[Bam]

An even easier solution is to use (or rather NOT use) the "Keep Interface Directory Clean" on the configure dialog of the patcher. This options has always been disabled for me and I have never had any problems with Cosmos touching my non-Cosmos addons.

[morbid_o]

An even easier solution is to use (or rather NOT use) the "Keep Interface Directory Clean" on the configure dialog of the patcher. This options has always been disabled for me and I have never had any problems with Cosmos touching my non-Cosmos addons.


this is, however, the solution that requires more maintenence. see, things like altselfcast wouldn't be removed without this option checked, which leads to problems with addons like castoptions.

[drewsome]

Thanks all. I'll do a little more reading up.

[drewsome]

Well, that didn't work. I created a set of empty files for the "AddOns" directory which had the titles of the directories I didn't want touched, e.g. "EquipManager.nopatch" but Cosmos happily cleaned the directories out anyway.

Anyone know why that wouldn't work?

[GrayMouser]

Well, that didn't work. I created a set of empty files for the "AddOns" directory which had the titles of the directories I didn't want touched, e.g. "EquipManager.nopatch" but Cosmos happily cleaned the directories out anyway.

Anyone know why that wouldn't work?

the other variants are "directoryname.nopatch" as a FILE

OR

a file named 'nopatch' IN the directory you wish to so protect. the latter is currently protecting TheGatherer, Enchantrix, Reputation, etc etc ad nauseum here on my machine.

I also use Keep directory clean, although, it's been letting me down recently. I had to do a complete file check several times these last few days, w/ cosmos 2's release to get things to settle down. at one point I had khaos.lua generating 113 errors just after only logging in! ;>

[Pizi]

create a directory in the addonfolder

ADDONNAME_i_dont_want_to_be_cleaned.nopatch

iE gatherer.nopatch

this way you can easily copy a new version to the addon folder

[drewsome]

the other variants are "directoryname.nopatch" as a FILE

OR

a file named 'nopatch' IN the directory you wish to so protect. the latter is currently protecting TheGatherer, Enchantrix, Reputation, etc etc ad nauseum here on my machine.

I also use Keep directory clean, although, it's been letting me down recently. I had to do a complete file check several times these last few days, w/ cosmos 2's release to get things to settle down. at one point I had khaos.lua generating 113 errors just after only logging in! ;>

directoryname.nopatch didn't stop a cleanout, nor did putting a file named "nopatch" in the directories I wanted to protect. I ended up turning off the "Keep Interface Directory Clean" check box. :(

[Scae]

That's weird - It works fine for me (not using thottbot only, using the full cosmos).

Create a text file (right click, new file...), rename it to addondirectoryname.nopatch

Example:

you make a new file to protect your equipcompare directory called

equipcompare.nopatch

If that doesnt work then I don't know whats wrong.

[drewsome]

That's weird - It works fine for me (not using thottbot only, using the full cosmos).

Create a text file (right click, new file...), rename it to addondirectoryname.nopatch

Example:

you make a new file to protect your equipcompare directory called

equipcompare.nopatch

If that doesnt work then I don't know whats wrong.

I tried that and no joy. Oh, well. :(

[Gryphon]

Something is not being done correctly. You can protect any file. Check here http://cosmos.thzclan.com/#nopatch

Make sure you don't have "hide know file extensions" enabled when creating the text files or you will actually be creating addon.nopatch.txt which is not valid.

[drewsome]

I tried removing all my ".nopatch" files and recreating them and then it still didn't work.

Then, on a hunch, I deleted "Cosmos thottbot only" entirely and re-installed "Cosmos release" from the server.

Everything worked!

So apparenlty there's something buggy in the lastest "Thottbot only" version.

[Hancoque]

Strangely Cosmos did in fact delete my non-Cosmos addons which were protected by "AddonFolder.nopatch" files that resided in the "AddOns" folder. Before using Cosmos 2 / Khaos it didn't do that. Though I thought the update program didn't change. Using "nopatch" files inside each addon's directory solved the problem for me.

[Pizi]

Strangely Cosmos did in fact delete my non-Cosmos addons which were protected by "AddonFolder.nopatch" files that resided in the "AddOns" folder. Before using Cosmos 2 / Khaos it didn't do that. Though I thought the update program didn't change. Using "nopatch" files inside each addon's directory solved the problem for me.

since the launch of wow in europe im using cosmos and the nopatch folder method

BUT
the folder is in the addon directory

never had a problem

[merkyl]

I've been having this problem and just figured it out, it is CASE sensitive.

For example "Gatherer.nopatch" will work while "gatherer.nopatch" won't.

[NaVie]

make sure ur operating system isnt hiding the extension of filenames

it might be "addon.nopatch.txt" and your operating system is hiding the .txt part of the file.

this would cause the patcher to remove the files anyway.

[reddmc]

How do i know if my OS is hiding file name extensions and how do i change it so they dont....all i've been able to do is create new folders, not files, i'm lost. I'm not a computer guru but not an idiot either, but please a step by step would be awesome :P

[Gryphon]

New folders will work too, you can create a folder called AddonName.nopatch and it will work as well.

Here are some examples, you can just rename these and the extension should stay as .nopatch

http://cosmos.thzclan.com/files/nopatch_examples.zip