Macro sets deleting of their own accord

[Faulsey]

I was walking through Meriphataud mountains, la de dah, fair enough. I went to hit my flee macro, and nothing happened. When I held down ctrl, there was nothing in my macro set. I scrolled up from my THF set to my NIN set, nothing, to my RNG set, nothing. I scrolled down to see if my other sets were intact. 4 through 10 were intact, but when I went back up, 4 had disappeared too. I hadn't done anything that would delete them, and I hadn't logged out since I'd last used a macro.

Hoping it wouldn't save them, I deliberately DC'd, but, naturally, they were still gone. Oh, great, I can completely overhaul a macro set, DC, and nothing gets saved, but when they somehow change of their own accord, they get saved? Set 1 had also reverted to the set of macros you have at the start of the game.



Redoing 4 sets of macros isn't really all that hard; remembering which macro was where is. I'd been using these macros for so long that I hit buttons for things instinctively, so I have little to no idea where I had placed a lot of things, such as my ammo swap macros.

Has this happened to anyone before? Is there something that triggers it? Or is that just something really odd that only happened to me?

[Icemage]

Re: Macro sets deleting of their own accord

I've never heard of a partial set of macros getting reset, though it's possible that if you were doing something odd like editing macros before you logged out previously it might have corrupted a file or two. Each set of macros is contained in a different file.

On the PC version, there is a way to save your current macro scheme. Go to C:\Program Files\PlayOnline\Square-Enix\FINAL FANTASY XI\USER\<somegibberish, depends on the user but mine is b7ccd0> and make a copy of all the files that begin with "mcr" (so mcr.sys, mcr.dat, mcr2.dat, etc.).

Put the copies somewhere safe; if all else fails, you can take those copies and use them to restore your macro set by overwriting the files with them.

I've heard that it's possible to save your macros somehow via PlayOnline as well, but can't for the life of me remember whether it's true anymore.


Icemage

[Faulsey]

Re: Macro sets deleting of their own accord

Thank you, I'll make sure to back my macros up then. Struggling to remember a lot of them, hehe...

Me for 5 mins: Argh, what goes there, what goes there?!?!?! : 5 mins later: OH! RIGHT! Shadowbind!

[Feba]

Re: Macro sets deleting of their own accord

you can on POL, but if your USER/ is getting corrupted it won't do any good.

[little ninja]

Re: Macro sets deleting of their own accord

ive had my macros error on me. was tryin to cast cure an it said i couldnt do the action. i looked at both counters, an they were up, an i hadnt used a spell in awhile. tried another macro an nothing. even had 300 mp. the odd part is those macros worked earlier, an later on they worked fine, but in that time frame they didnt work at all.

[Tirrock]

Re: Macro sets deleting of their own accord

I know of a way to save/copy/load settings (including macro sets) on the character selection screen of FFXI. I'm not sure if that's what you're talking about when you mention saving macro sets through POL.

On the screen of FFXI where you select your character, if you hit "CTRL + Shift + ALT + D" it will reset the settings on that character to the default state (including newbie macros).
CTRL Shift ALT - B = Saves the settings into the one storage spot.
CTRL Shift ALT - R = Loads settings from saved slot.

It asks you to confirm it whenever you try, so feel free to try it for yourself.

If you have a mule, you can save your settings and load them on the mule as a back-up.