HowTo dual spec/dual UI? Help Wanted...

I've been testing out all kinds of unit frames replacements as well as a metric assload of other UI addon's. I've finally arrived at a UI that I love, however it has become pretty much a general UI that has been great for 5 mans and farming and achievement whoring, but is getting quite cumbersome for raiding.

Now that I'm raiding more and more, I'm finding I need to trim some fat. I also want the flexibility to flip flop between prot, holy and perhaps ret specs. Item Rack is fantastic for managing gear sets, but now I need a way to change my ui, fast.

What I'm looking for is a way to save my general purpose UI, tanking UI and healing UI into separate profiles. Eventually, I'd like to be able to respec, /reload UI .. and accept summon .

What does everyone else use for this? Is this a pipe dream or are there tools available to do this?
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Probably the only way to do this is to copy your wtf\account\[login]\[character name] directory into wtf\Account\[login]\[character name].prot

configure your ui into, say, dps, and copy into blahblahblah.dps

then copy the contents into wtf\Account\[login]\[character name] and /reloadui.

May be more trouble than it's worth, but might also be the only way to do what you want.
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This is something that has to be done on a per mod basis really.
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Wouldn't copying the wtf\etc folders port all saved mod settings? Is there somewhere else in the dir tree that mods can store their settings? I was under the impression the API was very controlled, with regards to where data could be read and written.
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"/reload ui" didn't work on the ptr anymore for me, does anybody knwo if this is a bug or intended (because it sucks!).
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/reload ui <-- ?

/reloadui <-- works (no space), no need for /console
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many mods will let you save a certain configuration, X Perl comes to mind as a unit frame, see what others have profiles associated with them

A list of the mods you use would be helpful too.
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/console reloadui

or if you start wow with the console

The first thing I would do is download Actionbar Saver. That alone will save you alot of work.

In my case, I have action bars for each spec. After I respec, I type