Bloated WoW client

CptNukeEm said:
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?
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lol not my place it's a mess busy having new kitchen cupboards put in. You know where Seadoone Mall is in Doonside? There's an internet cafe/computer shop called Performance PC, PM me a good time for u and I'll bring my external HDD. I need to check out some of their desktop pc's anyway may as well kill two birds with one stone :D
 
killkom said:
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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Bloody good idea actually thanks!
 
Nothxkbi said:
lol not my place it's a mess busy having new kitchen cupboards put in. You know where Seadoone Mall is in Doonside? There's an internet cafe/computer shop called Performance PC, PM me a good time for u and I'll bring my external HDD. I need to check out some of their desktop pc's anyway may as well kill two birds with one stone :D
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Hey yeah I know where that is, don't know where the shop is though but I'll just walk around a bit to find it :) Is today good? I need to go to Galleria in a bit to pick up photo's from Photo First when they call me. Also, if you bring your external, I have to bring my laptop?
 
CptNukeEm said:
Hey yeah I know where that is, don't know where the shop is though but I'll just walk around a bit to find it :) Is today good? I need to go to Galleria in a bit to pick up photo's from Photo First when they call me. Also, if you bring your external, I have to bring my laptop?
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Yah just ask for the only PC shop there hehe. Bring your laptop too as well I'll bring my external drive. I think we left it a bit late Performance PC close at 5 and I'm still in Durban! Wanna try tomorrow or some other day?
 
Nothxkbi said:
I think we left it a bit late Performance PC close at 5 and I'm still in Durban! Wanna try tomorrow?
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Ah damn, wanted to play tonight :P Alright, tomorrow it is then, unless you can come to my place, which is in Athlone Park xD If you live in Doonside, that wouldn't be a detour?
 
CptNukeEm said:
Ah damn, wanted to play tonight :P Alright, tomorrow it is then, unless you can come to my place, which is in Athlone Park xD If you live in Doonside, that wouldn't be a detour?
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Yah I don't mind it's no hassle. PM me ur address and I'll give you my mobile and let you know when I'm in Athlone. Lived there for 4 years so I know the area fairly well :p
 
My suggestion is to delete it all and download the client. I did a few weeks ago. Takes out a lot of bloat like the cinematics...
 
If anyone reinstalls the game, don't make a silly mistake by inserting your Vanilla copy, WotLK has all data needed to patch to 3.0 and I'm sure Cataclysm will be the same when it arrives, meaning you only need the previous cd keys, not the DVDs.
 
mine is also around 30 GB.
I have noticed that there are two cache folders in the installation, I'm assuming I need to delete the one under "World of Warcraft\Data\Cache"?
It looks like I have 5.3GB under the "updates" folder and 8.4GB under the "World of Warcraft\Data\Cache" - installation is around 2 years old.

Thinking about doing a complete reinstall for Cataclysm, do you chaps think it will be beneficial? (i.e. installing purely from the discs and then running the obligatory patch once the Cataclysm CD has finished)
 
I though about doing that as well. Problem is the patches. With the new downloader you can't save patches, so you have to do the full patch download again. So it depends on what version is on the disc.

With the old system, I saved all of my downloaded patches in a separate folder, which made re-installing from disc and then updating simple, but time-consuming.
 
it's a toss up - I don't want to take a chance and do a fresh install, then install Cataclysm and find that it needs me to download a 1GB patch or something....
Probably best to archive the old wow folder and keep it in case..
 
Why do you guys want to install cata from the install discs if you could just pre-load it now, or even 4 weeks ago?

I hardly ever never to re-install the game from scratch, I just keep my current game. It is also on a separate partition, so if I do need to re-install windows, I just re-use the game files.
 
I'm just weird like that. I haven't reinstalled LK in a while now. I think the last time was sometime last year. Most of the time I just copy my WoW files. Interesting thing I remember, installing WoW from discs from the beginning takes a lot of time, possible an hour, before patching. I did find out about the installing the entire game from the LK disc after that.

It's the same reason I reinstall Windows every couple of months. Clears out bloat and unneeded files and registry entries. The Windows on my home machine needs a reinstall soon, but it's still running ok for now.
 
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