Bloated WoW client

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Nothxkbi

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After patching today I noticed my client is over 25 gigs!!!!!

I'm considering logging in sometime but want to clean up my client in case anyone in the Durban area needs a copy I mean 25gigs c'mon it can't be right. Any suggestions to shrink it?
 
Nothxkbi said:
After patching today I noticed my client is over 25 gigs!!!!!

I'm considering logging in sometime but want to clean up my client in case anyone in the Durban area needs a copy I mean 25gigs c'mon it can't be right. Any suggestions to shrink it?
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It's most likely right.

Mine is around 21.8gigs big, I'm going to take a guess and say you updated yours through the launcher?

That should account for the few gigs extra.
 
Naw, start deleting addons, screenshots, and the WTF folder and start over with your addons, they accumulate some data in the WTF folder too, especially addons like auctioneer and so on. But most likely its screenshots, which takes up a nice amount by itself.
 
Where in Toti do you stay? :)
I stay in Athlone Park hehe I've never heard of someone from Toti playing WoW :P
 
I cleared up around 8 gigs after clearing out the cache folders. And I am not just referring to the normal cache folders... there are cache folders in the /data directory as well. My install is pretty old (around 1.5 years) so it was fat and bloated.
 
CptNukeEm said:
Where in Toti do you stay? :)
I stay in Athlone Park hehe I've never heard of someone from Toti playing WoW :P
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A wow player in Athlone Park I would've never guess not in a million years LOL!! Pleased to meet you cpt. I only know of one other Toti wow player on this forum by the name Bradrap. Not met him yet. I'll tell you where I live in PM maybe we grab a beer one day hehe :D

Pornolio said:
I cleared up around 8 gigs after clearing out the cache folders. And I am not just referring to the normal cache folders... there are cache folders in the /data directory as well. My install is pretty old (around 1.5 years) so it was fat and bloated.
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Pornolio I have a lot of old updates lying around and yup my cache folders are very large. I'm gonna tackle it after my dentist app at 3, see if I can bring way down because 25 gigs for a client just seems far too much. I remember in the old days the client only being 4 gigs max. I'd hate to think in 5 years from now WoW taking up an entire 80gig h/disk sheesh...

FlatspinZA said:
Delete all your toons and start again. :p
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HAHA very helpfull Flat I'll keep that in mind, you try it first and tell me if it works :p
 
Awesome man I might even have to get the game files from you soon :P I played like 3 months ago, but stopped due to matric finals.. I guess there have been quite a few patches since then?
 
CptNukeEm said:
Awesome man I might even have to get the game files from you soon :P I played like 3 months ago, but stopped due to matric finals.. I guess there have been quite a few patches since then?
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Yah no worries just say when you need it and we can meet up, got my client fully patched, was about 10gigs worth of patches *sigh* Blizzard must be losing it LOL I mean jeez what kind of patch is that big??!?
 
Nothxkbi said:
Yah no worries just say when you need it and we can meet up, got my client fully patched, was about 10gigs worth of patches *sigh* Blizzard must be losing it LOL I mean jeez what kind of patch is that big??!?
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Yeah why the hell don't they just put it all on the Cata disk? :P
Awesome man, I'll contact you in like a week, when I finish with finals :)
 
Nothxkbi said:
Yah no worries just say when you need it and we can meet up, got my client fully patched, was about 10gigs worth of patches *sigh* Blizzard must be losing it LOL I mean jeez what kind of patch is that big??!?
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Howzit man, sent you a PM, did you get it? :)
 
Nothxkbi said:
Yah got it sorry just running around a little here at work. Ok I not done this before what's the best way to get it to you, burn it on a disk or something?
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No worries :) I have an external HDD if that would be easier? I also have DVD's, I really don't mind :)
 
CptNukeEm said:
No worries :) I have an external HDD if that would be easier? I also have DVD's, I really don't mind :)
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I've got a fully patched copy on my work external HDD, not sure if you got a car or u want me to drop it off at ur place, u can run in quick and grab it onto ur pc. Not done this before so whatever u think is best? :D
 
Nothxkbi said:
I've got a fully patched copy on my work external HDD, not sure if you got a car or u want me to drop it off at ur place, u can run in quick and grab it onto ur pc. Not done this before so whatever u think is best? :D
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Hehe I have a motorcycle so I can go anywhere :) I can bring my laptop or external to your house/work and grab it there? Would be easier for you?
 
Nothxkbi said:
After patching today I noticed my client is over 25 gigs!!!!!

I'm considering logging in sometime but want to clean up my client in case anyone in the Durban area needs a copy I mean 25gigs c'mon it can't be right. Any suggestions to shrink it?
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You need to do some expansion maintenence

When you get the cataclysm disk backup the WTF and Interface folders uninstall wow and delete anything to do with wow on your machine

Reinstall all the disks and then finally the cataclysm disks no need to download all the old patches restore WTF and interface folders then you will have a nice clean install of wow again until the next major patch that is.
 
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