What is directory for Patches? :: World of Warcraft

#1 Dec 02 2006 at 4:42 PM Rating: Decent

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Well.. I'm putting WoW on my desktop and I was wondering if there is a way I could transfer the patches from my laptop to my desktop. Cause downloading the patches (which are about 496 MB of it) on dial-up would take about a whole day or more to finish =/..

I have a 512 MB USB Flash Drive so.. If i could figure out the patch files i could transfer them...

Edited, Dec 2nd 2006 8:07pm by Baruto

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#2 Dec 02 2006 at 8:29 PM Rating: Decent

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I know in my World of Warcraft folder there's just a bunch of files labeled things like "WoW-1.8.3.4807-to-1.8.4.4878-enUS-patch". Since I've been patching since 1.7, I've got a LOT of little ones like that. I think there's a patch available somewhere that'll just take you straight to the latest version from 1.0 (or whatever the release version is).

Honestly, I think it'll take almost as long to transfer via flash drive as just dealing with the dial-up... maybe you could leave the 'WoW updater running at night when everyone's sleeping?

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#3 Dec 04 2006 at 2:45 AM Rating: Decent

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You could share your World of Warcraft folder, then use a utility like Insync to make the desktop folder a mirror image of the laptop. It will only transfer files that are missing or different, rather than copying the entire directory. There are a couple of different copy modes, in case you want to make the directories exactly the same, or Backup extra stuff but not delete any additional info on the target pc (like another character profile directory). Also, for general use, it will not stop on a locked file like a copy in windows normally would. This is one of my favorite utilities. It's not free, but has a eval period where you could try it out with this project, then decide if it is useful enough for you to want to purchase.

Edited, Dec 4th 2006 6:01am by dadanox

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