Missing .exe

[Boogieman]

After the patch today the .exe is gone from both wow folders the launcher come up but when i hit the play button nothing happens and i tried to let hotkeynet launch them as usual without the launcher just from the .exe and they all came up and went right away now HKN does nothing when i hit the hotkey to launch and rename


EDIT : this is the message from hotkeynet

<Run "C:\program files\World of Warcraft\wow.exe"> failed: Operating system CreateProcess function failed; Windows reports system error 5, "Access is denied."

[TheFallenOne]

Same thing happened to me. Attempting to run the Repair tool right now, hoping that helps. Will let you know.

[Boogieman]

Yes i assume this will fix it but then i gotta do all the patches again trying to avoid that

[Multibocks]

Yeah I hate the repair tool for that exact reason.

[Boogieman]

Had an idea to see if .exe had been moved

Made a new folder in the wow directory named it wow.exe windows says no that file exists rename new folder
and you can not put a new wow.exe in the folder cause it says its there but its not did folder options show all files and folders still not there

[Boogieman]

Awesome shit here boys

the repair wont complete it has an error and has to shut down i suppose its time for a full reinstall

SHIT

Edit : i tried 3 times

[Boogieman]

This just keeps getting better

Now i went to uninstall wow and it says there are a shit ton of files that either cant be found or cant be accessed or just cant be deleted so now there will be a load of residual crap an my pc all over the place

[Drommon]

Two things.

1 - Back up WoW before patch/maintanence day to another drive.
2 - Always start your sessions opening the main folder wow executable so only one update gets applied rather than 5 at once.

I have been down the road you are travelling on now. I always start one wow client first from the main folder just to see if there are going to be any patches/brief updates/whatever. Never start 5 wows without seeing 1 wow first.

Sorry you had to go through all this pain. 12 hours of DL and reconfiguring your toons... Back up every Monday night. At least with a back up you can start over in 30 min or less.

[Boogieman]

completely deleted everything wow on the computer and attempted reinstall it fails

i read somewhere that i could do a reinstall from just WOTLK disc can someone confirm this if i need to dig for the vanilla and BC discs i can do that tomarrow but the LK disc was still on my desk

[alcattle]

WotLK contains all the game and patches up to 3.0 so anything after that is still needed.
Take the advice and BACKUP.

[Mubox]

Two things.

1 - Back up WoW before patch/maintanence day to another drive.
2 - Always start your sessions opening the main folder wow executable so only one update gets applied rather than 5 at once.

I have been down the road you are travelling on now. I always start one wow client first from the main folder just to see if there are going to be any patches/brief updates/whatever. Never start 5 wows without seeing 1 wow first.

Sorry you had to go through all this pain. 12 hours of DL and reconfiguring your toons... Back up every Monday night. At least with a back up you can start over in 30 min or less.

I use symlinking from a master copy, this has bit me in the ass enough that I now keep a full copy of WoW and copies of all patches. I also download my patches from fileplanet rather than depend on the blizz downloader (it's faster for me, and doesn't muck with the registry)

I don't know if this will help anyone, but for Mubox users I wrote up a howto for those who get bit in the ass like this, from my own experience: http://mubox.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Fix%20a%20Bad%20Patch&referringTitle=Apply%20a%20Patch

Two write-ups, one is how to apply a patch, the other is how to fix a bad patch. Some of the subject matter is specific to Mubox (e.g. Game Isolation) which is why this is even a problem (multiple copies, or run locations), but it's otherwise the same regardless of toolset.

Hope this helps, if not do share your experience, we can all benefit.

[Boogieman]

i have solved the issue i am backed up now and will backup every Monday night now


Edit : It was an issue with norton not being fully updated and it took away ownership of my wow.exe i found the fix on the wow support forum

[Dorffo]

I kept a "master" copy of my main WoW folder sitting on an external backup which I would keep updated independantly of my game install on the desktop(s). Usually I'd just patch my sym-linked folders without issue, but once out of 2 or three patches I'd do something wrong and end up messing up the whole thing.

Copying the whole WoW install folder to and from a USB drive is much less time consuming than reinstalling and re-patching!