i generally check curse every day to see if anything i use has been updated, and usually download new files to replace my out of date addons

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Alas; I am in the same boat as you. Unless it has stopped working then I don't mess with it.

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I run WoWAceUpdater the first time I log in each day. The others that arent Ace addons I generally update when patches come out or when the urge strikes me.

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As you yourself mentioned, WoWAceUpdater is your friend. And it just needs downloading, no installing, youll run it after unpack. Another option is the Curse.com registration, which will remember every time you download an addon, and throw you an email when there are new versions. Or you can log in once every week and look for updates (which are then highlighted).

Personally ill take the WoWAceUpdater any day. It really makes my addon management so much easier. I even use it to download completely new addons (which means theres no files on your desktop or download folder to get rid of later).

Only downside is, youll never get to read about new features in those addons, unless you follow the development on forums or actually read the readme. But who will EVER do that?! ^^

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Funny i posted just a thing about this in the last comments but here i go again because it fits

There is a Program that will not only check ace but also almost any other modsites for updates:

http://wuu.vagabonds.info/

currently because of changes on curse addon identification numbers in urls only the beta version can update fom curse.

and the support of wowui was stopped, because it caused download traffic but wowui didnt like it that the user no longer surfed their site (ads, sponsors, etc).

But a very nice feature is also the possible version check and update of the program itself without surfing the web.

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at curse-gaming you can keep a list of your favorite addons, it will let you know that there has been an update when you look at the list

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Ya...each patch, I just delete my addon folder and start over. It kind of sucks but I haven't gotten into the whole Ace thing yet. I keep thinking I need to, but when I go to their website, it isn't real clear how to do it. I just need to take the time to figure it out.

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I guess you don't read every post other bloggers make on this site :)
http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/05/10/addon-spotlight-wow-ui-updater/

I used to run the Wowace updater every day but got sick of manually updating my non-ace mods; WUU solves that. It's a fantastic piece of software.

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My solution is to let someone else do the work, by using a pre-compiled pack (and then turning off what I don't want). Grimpack (www.grimpickle.com) was excellent for a while, with the author updating the package a few times a week. Unfortunately he's gone AWOL over the past few months. Maybe time to find another pack.

Unfortunately Wow AceUpdater won't work on a Mac, and everytime I try to register an account on Curse, it won't work. (Probably have to use IE or something.)

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I only update every so often. But I will admit that the WoW AceUpdater makes the process so simple that I've been slowly switching non-Ace addons out for Ace based counterparts (like Omen for KTM, Recount for SW_Stats, etc).

For non-ace, yeah - fix it when it breaks or the whim catches me.

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i never change a running system ;)

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there hasn't been an ace program i've liked yet... all their addons seem to be cheap-copy cats of good addons. I'll have to look into that registering on curse-gaming... havn't updated in a while, mainly cause i havn't raided in a while. that would make it so much easier.

deadly boss mods is cool, when you enter a raid, it scans everyones version of DBM and tells you if theres a new version out... if you want to you can even click update notes and it downloads the patch change list from the person with the new version... definatly an epic way to handle it heh... only thing better would be if it gave you an option to auto-update from the person who has the newer version, ingame. that would be truely epic.

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The WoW UI Updater over there at http://wuu.vagabonds.info/ really does a great job for nearly all addons (except those coming from ui.worldofwar.net)

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Oh and I forgot to mention, WUU works on OSX and even Linux :D

As Hyrican said though, go for the beta version. The old one can't handle the new Curse site layout.

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I use what post #8 listed. All my addons come from ui.worldofwar.net, so it works great.

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use WUU, pretty easy, he'll update everything for you lazy guy :D

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As others have said. Run WAU every day. I also check Curse, WoWInterface, and UIWoW every couple of days manually for new addons.

I tried two of those "global" updaters. Broke my addons HARD. I'll never run one again that claims to be able to update from multiple sources. Maybe it works for others, but because I use WAU without externals (so I don't have multiple copies of ACE libraries), they don't work for me.

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@12:

Sounds like you have some personal grudge.

I prefer Omen and ORA2 over KTH and CTRAID. Less memory. Less performance hit. Same functionality. I could go on and on, but you seem to have your mind made up about ACE.

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I wrote down a lil perl program to check wowace files and update all my addons at once.
Ok, I am a nerd.

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i just have a problem with people re-writing other peoples work and taking credit for it, which is the bassis of 98.6% of ace addons.

although with omen, i've heard nothing but good things abuot it, so its prolly gonna get switched to for most raiding guilds, unless KLH steps it up.

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