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"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."
...

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!

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Report an issue (bug & suggestions): https://www.wowace.com/projects/elephant/issues

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_ForgeUser2860995
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Posted Jul 13, 2009
Hi there,

I've installed Elephant and it's great, but I can't seem to locate the chat log at all. I've checked for the WoWChatLog.txt file throughout my computer and I am set up for logging in the interface in the game. It just doesn't appear.

Is there a problem if I'm on Vista 64? Could another addon interfere with logging? I'm very anxious to fix this.

Thanks so much.

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Posted Jun 4, 2009
[2009/06/04 20:06:38-454-x1]: Elephant-2.5\Event-Handle.lua:24: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

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Posted May 23, 2009
Greetings,

how di I set Elephant to show the chat of all my characters in all my other characters? I've created a twink - my first one, that is - and I've been trying to find out how to get my main's chat to show while I'm logged in with my twink and vice versa. How do I do that?

All the best

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Posted May 26, 2009
This feature has been asked quite a few times. I'll look into it. It is not a simple request thus I cannot say it will be implemented soon in the addon. But I'll try! ;)

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Posted May 29, 2009
Thanks for the reply, I'm looking forward to the feature even if it may take a while - or worse, may never actually come ;-) I'll be optimistic.

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Posted May 21, 2009
hi, i have been getting this error a lot i think, usually when i zone into a different zone

Date: 2009-05-21 19:05:07
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Elephant\Event-Handle.lua line 24:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Debug:
Ace2\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:303: TriggerEvent()
Ace2\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:910:
Ace2\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:903
AddOns:
Swatter, v5.5.4238 (WombatII)
Ace2, v
Align, v
Altoholic, v3.1.002b
Atlas, v1.14.1
AtlasBattlegrounds, v1.14.1
AtlasDungeonLocs, v1.14.1
AtlasOutdoorRaids, v1.14.1
AtlasTransportation, v1.14.1
AtlasLoot, vv5.05.00
AtlasLootFu, vv5.05.00
AucAdvanced, v5.5.4238 (WombatII)
AucFilterBasic, v5.5.4238 (WombatII)
AucFilterOutlier, v5.5.4238.2531
AucMatchUndercut, v5.5.4238.2531
AucScanData, v5.5.4238 (WombatII)
AucStatClassic, v5.5.4238 (WombatII)
AucStatHistogram, v5.5.4238 (WombatII)
AucStatiLevel, v5.5.4238 (WombatII)
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CartographerInstanceNotes, v2.0
CartographerLookNFeel, v2.0
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Chatter, v1.0
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DominosXP, v
DrDamage, v1.6.3-beta1
Elephant, v2.5
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EnchantrixBarker, v5.5.4238 (WombatII)
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QuartzPet, v1.0
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QuartzSwing, v1.0
QuartzTarget, v1.0
QuartzTimer, v1.0
QuartzTradeskill, v1.0
RatingBuster, v
Recount, v
RedRange, v
SatrinaBuffFrame, v3.1
Scorchio2, v
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Stubby, v5.5.4238 (WombatII)
Talented, v2.1
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TrinketMenu, v
XLoot, v0.9
XLootGroup, v0.5
XLootMaster, v0.7
XPerl, v3.0.3c
XPerlArcaneBar, v
XPerlParty, v
XPerlPartyPet, v
XPerlPlayer, v
XPerlPlayerBuffs, v
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XPerlRaidAdmin, v
XPerlRaidFrames, v
XPerlRaidHelper, v
XPerlRaidMonitor, v
XPerlRaidPets, v
XPerlTarget, v
XPerlTargetTarget, v
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the other problem i get is when im trying to copy/paste some text from my elephant log, i hit cntrl c and it jsut opens my character window

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Posted May 26, 2009
If you still get this error often while using the AddOn, please post here and try to tell me what you did immediately before the error.

In order to copy/paste the text of the copy window into another program, you must keep the mouse over the copy window while pressing Ctrl+C or it will not work.

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Posted May 28, 2009
yes i still get this error, its kinda random though, but always happens jsut after i have zoned into a different zone - so things like just after a loading screen has finished from when i have teleported to dalaran, or jsut after loading screen finishes when i zone into ulduar - it doesnt happen all the time, just sometimes

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Posted May 17, 2009
There seems to be a bug where NPC yells (but not player yells) are also logged in the Raid section, in addition to the yell section.

As a suggestion, maybe instead of having a 'Say' and 'Yell' section, have a 'Player Say and Yells' and a 'NPC Say and Yells' section?

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Posted May 17, 2009
You can modify this behavior in the catchers of Elephant. Simply display the raid log and click on the button represented by a chat bubble (top right of the main window). Here you can unselect unwanted logged messages.

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Posted May 14, 2009
hi,
you can get this by yourselfe. You only have to change one value. Go to your Addonfolder normaly
\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons\Elephant
and open Core.lua with the Editor. Now serche for "maxlogsize" and chance ase you like it i took 10000 :D
Now you can go upto 10000 through the InGame Addon Menu

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Posted May 17, 2009
The problem of doing this, even if it works, is that your loading screen will take much much more time and that you'll get a much bigger memory usage as well.

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Posted May 13, 2009
Well i love this addon. But i have one question. i want a bigger log i want more then 1000lines More like 10000lines is it anything i can do to get that or is it anyway you can put that as option in setting?
Love this addon but i would love 10000lines also :)

Tom

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Posted Apr 28, 2009
Greetings, this addon claims to allow the user to log both the combat/chat log as files on their computer. I was just wondering if someone could inform me as to where these files are located by default as well as the default names that the respective files are saved under.

Been trying to locate them on my own comp and it's driving me bonkers!

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Posted Apr 29, 2009
Hi there,

look under ..\World of Warcraft\Logs\

The file names are:

WoWChatLog.txt
WoWCombatLog.txt

Cheers.

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Posted May 3, 2009
Thanks for the fix. I'll put this into Elephant asap (I know I'm saying this a lot but I really really try to get everything out in my spare time).

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Posted Apr 11, 2009
Here's the error that I receive if I have a custom channel selected to be logged, it is selected to be viewed and the channel is the sixth or greater active channel.

Date: 2009-04-11 03:48:23
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Elephant\Core-Interface.lua line 170:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
Elephant\Core-Interface.lua:170: SetObjectColorWithCurrentLogColor()
Elephant\Core-Interface.lua:13: ShowCurrentLog()
Elephant\Core-Interface.lua:7: ChangeLog()
Elephant\FuBar-Dropdown.lua:26: func()
...erface\AddOns\DewdropLib\Dewdrop-2.0\Dewdrop-2.0.lua:732:
...erface\AddOns\DewdropLib\Dewdrop-2.0\Dewdrop-2.0.lua:671

This issue occurs due to the way the table is being loaded with the channel list. My work around/fix is as follows, in the Core-Interface.lua file comment out lines 162 thru 167 and insert in my four lines. It will look like this:

-- for k,v in pairs(t) do
-- if string.lower(v) == string.lower(self.db.char.logs[self.db.char.currentlogindex].name) then
-- typeInfo = "CHANNEL" .. k
-- break
-- end
-- end
local id, chan = GetChannelName(self.db.char.currentlogindex);
if (id > 0) then
typeInfo = "CHANNEL"..id
end

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Posted Apr 13, 2009
It worked! Thanks. I was about ready to give up on elephant... The problem has been going on for so long, and I had to disable it so many times... but I couldn't find any other program that did what it did :(

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Posted May 17, 2009
Fixed in next beta release (should be before end of week).

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Posted Apr 11, 2009
Right click on the Elephant icon, select Logs -> Max Logs and use the slider to change the maximum number of lines to log.

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