Chat colors

[Feebb]

Opened up the chat colors tonight and didn't save before exiting. I had to take about 20 mins resetting them and still don't have them as they were.
My question is does anyone know which file contains the chat color info so I can back it up along with my ini file?
Thanks,
Feebb

[depechenode]

your character ini file keeps color settings. I read only all my character in files once i have them set where I like. That way nothing can change.

[Feebb]

Originally Posted by depechenode

your character ini file keeps color settings. I read only all my character in files once i have them set where I like. That way nothing can change.

I think you are wrong since restoring the ini did not fix the colors.
Feebb

[depechenode]

hmmm.. well I read only all my .ini files for EQ2. If i need to make a change, I unreadonly the file, make change, then verifiy it updated the file. Then I re-readonly. My chat colors always stay, any chat boxes always stay and everything else I setup remains the way I want. Not sure why you can't do the same

[Drumstix42]

When you change all your colors in game, are you hitting the Ok button, or hitting the X button on the window? I know a few times I've hit X instead, which doesn't save your changes.

[Feebb]

Originally Posted by Drumstix42

When you change all your colors in game, are you hitting the Ok button, or hitting the X button on the window? I know a few times I've hit X instead, which doesn't save your changes.

I believe it not only doesn't save the changes but actually resets them to default if you forget to click accept. I still would like to know where these settings are stored so i casn back them up...so far I've read that the chat colors, hotkeys, keymap, and I think, spellbook are not save in the eq2ui_<servername> <charactername>.ini file.
Feebb

[Kylaia]

I play the game on 2 different machines in 2 different states (NY & FL). If I changer my chat colors on one machine, they also are changed on the other the next time I boot that one up to play. This leads me to believe that chat color info is held on SOE's servers, rather than locally.

[Zonx]

I've also noticed color changes are saved for the toon you're on and do carry over to other toons, so long as you don't open the options window. If I make this mistake on an alt, logging back to my main does restore my custom colors.

[redjackal]

And to back up the posts above mine... I have totally deleted the entire Sony folder and had my chat colors and my hotbar settings still as I left them before. So ya, I also agree that this data is stored on their servers.