Questions: Altering existing Addons

[Vagnard]

Hello,

I wanted to make some changes to a class addon I have installed, but when I make even the slightest changes, the respective addon vanishes from the ingame addon list.

Steps I've taken:

-put the xxx.teaa file in the game's addon folder, verified it showed up ingame
-renamed .teaa to .rar and unrared
-altered the numerical values in the .lua files that I wanted
-repacked and kept folder structure intact

-started game and found addon missing from the list

I'm probably missing something really obvious, so if someone could point me in the right direction I'd be very gratefull.
Thanks.

[Dracos]

I'm gonna guess that in your rar is:
<addonname>/*

This got me lots of times trying things out, as often when you unzip/unrar, you will get <addonname> as a folder, but when you re-zip, you need to do it inside the folder, and not include the <addon> folder itself.

You can also just place the unrar'd folder in the addon directory. This is a good thing to do when trying out whether the addon is working and wanting to make changes.

Also, pretty sure it is zipped, not rar'd. Might be causing a format difference.

[Vagnard]

Thank you very much.
I did in fact watch out for the folder structure when packing back up, so I don't know what happend there,
but simply putting the unpacked data into the addon folder worked great.

[HousePet]

Its a 0% compression zip and it doesn't work if you compress it.