Copied World of Warcraft from another machine to save time and now you can’t update? Here’s a fix…
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22 Feb 2009World of Warcraft is a beast to install alone, patching it up to the latest version is another story. Many people, me included, will make a backup of the World of Warcraft folder to save time installing it on a new machine. This used to work just dandy, but now you might find yourself presented with an error message that says:
Well fear no more, the fix is easy and takes about two seconds. Go into your World of Warcraft folder and double-click repair.exe. When it opens, select reset only. Re-launch World of Warcraft and your patch should go off without a hitch.
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2 Responses to Copied World of Warcraft from another machine to save time and now you can’t update? Here’s a fix…
Random Googler
October 25th, 2009 at 2:19 am
You’re awesome, fixed my problems.
Nails Glasgow
April 2nd, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Thanks for the fix. That was driving me nuts for tooo long!