Reinstalling WoW

Mr-White · 6 Oct 2010 at 17:29

I don't want to have to re-configure all my ui, if I copied the interface folder would this save all the addons and their settings as well as the games settings ?

MW

macca672 · 6 Oct 2010 at 17:41

you need to copy the interface and wtf folder

Mean Mr Mustard · 6 Oct 2010 at 17:41

You'll need to copy the interface and WTF folders, I believe.

Semiskimmed · 6 Oct 2010 at 17:41

i think youd need to copy some other folders too for game settings like resolution and effects etc also keybinds.

Hutchy · 6 Oct 2010 at 17:44

Mean Mr Mustard said:
You'll need to copy the interface and WTF folders, I believe.

Just this.

How come you need to reinstall? It's normally much easier and quicker to just move the whole folder around.

Mr-White · 6 Oct 2010 at 20:00

I didn't know that :-/

I was just planning on re-installing Windows

Thanks everyone

MW

Broken Hope · 6 Oct 2010 at 20:03

Yeah WoW doesn't save anything worthwhile in the registry, just backup the whole folder and copy it back when you have reinstalled. Be sure to run the launcher or WoW executable as admin once on the new install so it writes the proper registry entries again though or it won't be able to patch properly.

G-Man · 7 Oct 2010 at 00:08

Sometimes its nice to do a fresh install just to clear up old patch remains.

ChrisJSY · 7 Oct 2010 at 01:49

G-Man said:
Sometimes its nice to do a fresh install just to clear up old patch remains.

...or you could just delete the contents of the patches folder and what's left in the main directory. Takes about 4 seconds.
I did for me, just now.

Mr-White · 7 Oct 2010 at 15:28

My WoW folder is 27gb, just spent the best part of half an hour transferring it to my NAS :-/

I might just do a fresh install and then copy the WoW and WTF folder back

MW

MooMoo444 · 7 Oct 2010 at 15:30

Mr-White said:
My WoW folder is 27gb, just spent the best part of half an hour transferring it to my NAS :-/

I might just do a fresh install and then copy the WoW and WTF folder back

MW

Mine is about 17gb.. so your extra 10gb is old patches that are stored. Go into your folder and whop out the delete key.

Chris19 · 7 Oct 2010 at 15:44

Im pretty sure things like keybinds, personal settings on wow i.e. where the buttons are place on action bars, fast quest text etc, are all saved server side now.

Though as everyone has said just copy the whole folder

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Think my wow is 27Gb and i have just done a fresh instal.... can only assume its kept a few patches here and there.

Mr-White · 7 Oct 2010 at 16:19

I will definitely need to cull my WoW directory down as i'm having to squeeze my current 150gb C: into one of these :-/

Anyone else flick back through their screen shot folder to recall on old times ?

MW

Semiskimmed · 7 Oct 2010 at 16:50

Mr-White said:
Anyone else flick back through their screen shot folder to recall on old times ?

MW

i wish, ive reinstalled windows so many times ive lost all the great screenshots ive had over the years of playing it

Mr-White · 8 Oct 2010 at 15:55

Semiskimmed said:
i wish, ive reinstalled windows so many times ive lost all the great screenshots ive had over the years of playing it

I've lost all the ones from my old char the first time i played wow. I've saved all the screen shots of the second char i started in February this year

I've just installed wow vanilla and the first update is 3.4 gb :-/

MW

Mr-White · 11 Oct 2010 at 13:07

There's now a new 5.2gb update which has taken my wow folder back up to 24gb. How can I tell which updates I can delete ?

MW

waso_dude · 11 Oct 2010 at 13:09

Mr-White said:
I've lost all the ones from my old char the first time i played wow. I've saved all the screen shots of the second char i started in February this year

I've just installed wow vanilla and the first update is 3.4 gb :-/

MW

Don't you have your WOTLK disk? if so just plonk that straight in, and job done. You don't actually need the other disks.

Mr-White · 11 Oct 2010 at 13:12

waso_dude said:
Don't you have your WOTLK disk? if so just plonk that straight in, and job done. You don't actually need the other disks.

I noticed that after I installed vanilla and the updates that tbc was also installed and then I just installed wotlk

It's all installed and working now, I just want to get the wow folder down in size as my ssd is only 80gb

MW

Smudge · 15 Oct 2010 at 20:07

I just did a completly fresh wow install using the wow-europe client link. End result, with no mods is 27GB

my poor 60GB SSD that I chose to install it too is full now.

I'd also love know know whats safe to delete!

Cheers,
matt.

Rising · 15 Oct 2010 at 20:19

There is an updates folder that you can clear out once they have been installed