Elephant
"Shoot... what did he say again? I just got disconnected."
"Didn't that folk already loot that rare item 10 minutes ago?"
"I really wish I could remember the name of the item linked on the guild chat yesterday at 9:00 PM."
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Already been in one of these situations? Don't be annoyed anymore, here is the solution!
Solution to chat loss annoyance
Elephant logs the chat for you in the background even when you get disconnected. It saves the WHISPER & BATTLE.NET, RAID, INSTANCE & BATTLEGROUND, PARTY, GUILD, SAY, YELL and OFFICER chats separately, but also all general chats (General, Trade, LocalDefense, ...), custom chats you are currently on, achievements, loots and finally system messages (auctions, rolls, server going down, ...). You can easily go through all these logs, thanks to a straightforward interface displaying all the access buttons on the right side of the main window. You can access the options of the addon by typing /elephant and also bind a key to pop up the addon.
Elephant gives you the ability to copy up to 100,000 (yes, 100k) characters of logs to another application. A BBCode feature is even included, letting you copy/paste a chat with colors and links to an item database in a very quick and simple way to your favorite forum.
This is THE addon that you should install if you want to never forget what somebody told you in game. Be a pro of managing hell tells, go peacefully AFK for a few minutes, or be an awesome role player. Elephant is also perfectly designed for Guild Leaders, Officers and Raid Leaders particularly because it restores the chats after you've been disconnected.
Main features
- Logs the chats in the background, with a limit of 10,000 lines for each chat (Blizzard's default is 161 lines for everything).
- Saves the logs when you log out or get disconnected.
- Display the chats with timestamps, or using your Prat settings if you have it installed.
- Copy the chat and paste it in other applications (BBCode supported!), up to 100,000 characters.
- Save the chat and combat log in two different files on your computer (using the default Blizzard logging system).
Other features
- Use filters to avoid logging some of the custom channels you join.
- Enable/disable logging for each chat separately.
- Item links in logs are displayed in their proper color and are clickable.
- Player names in the main window are clickable.
- ...and much more!
Community
Report an issue (bug & suggestions): https://www.wowace.com/projects/elephant/issues
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AllInOneMighty Owner
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Posted Mar 24, 2024In reply to sad_sinoussi264598:
You're probably not looking at the right place.
You should be looking in:
_retail_/WTF/Account/<your account>/<your realm>/<your character>/SavedVariables/Elephant.lua
And/or:
_retail_/WTF/Account/<your account>/<your realm>/SavedVariables/Elephant.lua
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Posted Jan 9, 2024This addon is incredible for keeping logs, however there is one small issue.
Trade, and Trade (Services) are now two seperate channels in game, however the addon still reads it as one channel. This Services channel is constantly spammed (esp in high pop realms) and that completely fills up the logs with useless garbage of people/bots selling 500k gold boosts/purchases/carries, and it becoms very difficult to filter this out manually.
I have found no way of telling to addon to stop monitoring/logging Trade (Services), and even if I disable the Trade channel in the addon, it keeps logging Services due to its technical channel difference.
If this can be fixed, it would be great appreciated, as some logs grow to over 100MB+ because I forgot to turn off logging whilst I am afk or in RP in a major city with Trade (Services) being spammed.
Thank you!
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Posted Mar 22, 2024There is a way but its messy as f*ck. i will make a pr after i find a better solution then my current one.
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Posted Mar 22, 2024In reply to SnowVersio:
i have added a PR now. Aslong the owner accept it, both channels will be logged in each other tab (see PR with picture at github (source link at the top)
if the owner of the project accept the PR you can simply disable logging for services to prevent your logs to get too big.
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Posted Mar 24, 2024In reply to Lusaca87:
I have added the feature to the latest release. Please enjoy!
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Posted Jan 2, 2024I recently name changed my char, and obviously now all my chat logs are gone. Is there a way to transfer them over to the char with the new name?
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Posted Jan 2, 2024In reply to UlvarArt:
If I remember correctly, there is a way to copy settings from one character to the other.
If that doesn't work, you'll have to go through a modification of your addon saved variables while the game is not running. I am away from my computer so I cannot give you this information right now however, but if you are comfortable editing those, you should be able to simply change the table key from your old character name to the new one.
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Posted Jan 4, 2024In reply to AllInOneMighty: Could you let me know how to once you are able to and I'll give it a go?
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Posted Oct 23, 2023First, thank you so much for this great addon. Really love it.
I was wondering if it's possible to do the following tasks:
1. Automatically save the logs to a different file so that I can keep a history of more than 1000 log line and 15000 copy characters limit. I know I can increase this in the options, but the options also have severe impact on the game performance when I do that.
2. Have elephant read the exported file in the above step?
I play on multiple machines and would like to be able to keep the log history in a central shared folder so that no matter which machine I am playing on I can check old chat logs.
Apologies if this was covered before. I tried to read the old comments first but didn't find the info.
Thank you in advance.
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Posted Oct 23, 2023In reply to eiy711:
Hello eiy711,
There is an option in the addon settings to log all chat to a file on your computer (and combat chat in another file), but there is no way to read it back to the addon, unfortunately. It's a limitation from the API.
The only way to have those logged and accessible in game is to increase the number of log lines and copy characters limit, unfortunately.
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Posted Oct 28, 2023In reply to AllInOneMighty: Thank you! Is this the "File Logging" option under "Logs" tab? It has a warning so I didn't turn it on. If I turned this on, where will the file be located? Thanks!
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Posted Jan 2, 2024In reply to eiy711:
It is that option! The warning only applies if you have a separate addon that also enables this option.
When you have activated this option, it will be logged in Warcraft\Logs\WoWChatLog.txt
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Posted Aug 6, 2023Would it be possible to log addon messages?
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Posted Jul 12, 2023First off awesome addon I've been using it for years! As Guild Lead it's been a very great addon when someone starts the whole "he said they said" thing! Sorry folks I have the text saved lol
I was wondering if there is a way to add communities? One of my communities is /6 for example. I searched here and also the settings and couldn't find anything. Thanks ahead of time!
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Posted Jul 9, 2023Hello.
One question:
is there a way to split the trade chat with the annoying selling section?
ingame i have it in an own channel but in your addon the tradechat will be mixed with the selling (service) chat. so the logs will be full with this spam.
best regards
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Posted Mar 24, 2024In reply to Lusaca87:
Added to the last release!
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Posted Jun 13, 2023i used this for a week and idled in the main hub and found 40+ guild advertisement and i was able to find a really good one thanks to this!
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Posted Jun 15, 2023In reply to swi7ch:
So glad this addon is useful to you! ♥
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Posted May 25, 2023My logs got wiped. It's okay though, I found that individual characters have a log saved in saved variables.
If there's a way to individually restore character log files, I think I manage that. Is this possible?
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Posted May 14, 2023Hi, great utility addon.
Just reporting a quick bug:
As of version 10.0.5c, the "general chats" part of elephant is blanked out where the channels like "trade" are supposed to show up. Clicking on a given channel gives a LUA error.
I can downgrade to 10.0.0 or 10.0.5b and the problem goes away.
The problem exists also in the latest release 10.0.5d. I am using 10.0.5b in the meantime.