Problem w/ 4.01 and SSD's <=40 gigs, error out of space

[outdrsyguy1]

Just an FYI, when applying patch 4.01, I ran out of space on my 40gig SSD and patch would not complete. I've tried copying it to my main hard draive (300gig extra space) and running the update there. Note, you will need to re-start from launcher or update will still try to apply to the ssd drive (it doesn't realize it got moved and points to the ssd still for update).

Hopefully it will go well and I can then move wow back to my SSD. I believe wow currently takes up 21 gig of my 40 on the SSD. They must really eat up extra space on this patch.

Let me know if anyone else has any tips, i tried loooking through old patches and all the big ones I have deleted.

[cmeche]

Oh crap.
When you say resstart from launcher.....you mean download the whole thing again to your main hd's wow install?

[Svpernova09]

Oh crap.
When you say resstart from launcher.....you mean download the whole thing again to your main hd's wow install?

No.

Copy your wow folder to a larger drive, run the Launcher.exe Let it run it's full course. Then copy WoW back to the SSD once you see the new launcher.

[outdrsyguy1]

yeah, sorry, to be more clear, go into your large hard drive wow folder after you copy over, then double click the "launcher.exe" file and let things run.

[kate]

I ran into this issue as well. - it was expanding a temporary file that was wound up being about 6 gigs too large to fit on my SSD. Here's what I did and plan to do in the future:

1) Short term I moved the game back to my larger HDD and patched it there where there is plenty of space. The end result is a 24.0 GB folder. I moved this back to my SSD, and all seems to be well with the world.

2) I moved the patch files (I have files going back to version 2.3 from the downloader) to the regular HDD; if I need to reinstall in the future, they're there.

3) I'm going to (probably) create a symlink between the Updates folder on the SSD and the regular HDD - this way, when it patches in the future, the patches get expanded on the HDD, where there is lots of space.

I won't know for sure if this works until the game comes back up live, but it seems to be a fix.

[Aenar]

A better permanent work-around I'm testing now:

Create a Symbolic link just to the Update Folder.
I moved the "Update" folder to my C:\, left my WoW folder on my SSD (Z:\)
My WoW folder is roughly 20gig instead of 35gig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

cmd I ran after moving the folder:
mklink /d "Z:\World of Warfcraft\Updates" "C:\Games\Warcraft Files\Updates"

[Boylston]

Very good work, folks.

This is the kind of stuff that makes d-b.com worth coming to daily!

Thanks.

[Oatboat]

You can also remove some of the old Downloaded Patch files to help with the size.

[Ualaa]

My Anti-Virus (Kaspersky) actually detected the Patcher as similar to a known Keylogger and would not let it run; has to add it as an exception.

Beyond that, did not seem to have an issue patching it to a 64GB SSD.

[Malgor]

OOPS. I had the same problem.

I didn't look here and posted it in the general forums today and Fenril closed it and linked me to here. I didn't think to look in Hardware since I didn't think it was really a hardware problem, the hardware is fine, just not enough space to expand.

I'm expanding it right now on my HDD.

[kate]

I'm happy to say that my WoW folder is now down to a trim 23.4 GB of space, the updates folder is symlinked to my standard HDD, and patches are all safely backed up and moved off the SSD as well. I've launched and logged in (though obviously I can't play yet) so I think the only other thing I have to do in preparation is get my addons working once things go live.

[Malgor]

I need to do that too, Kate. Mine is at 30gigs now used after I transferred over the new files. It seems to work fine, but now we have another 2 hour delay until 4pm my time. I've been working on all my talents for all of my toons and have a window up with what I am proposing for my new builds for each toon with that talent calculator. It will take awhile just to get all that done, not to mention the changes with Glyphs.

[kate]

:) I am doing pretty much the same thing - I have my talent specs (more or less) picked, so now I am trying to do a gut rehab on my UI. It's a total wow makeover! :D

[Malgor]

LOL you'll have to share it all on your blog. I'm mad because it keeps getting postponed. Now it's 5pm my time. I work the next 4 days so won't be on again until next Sunday!

Maybe they'll have all the bugs worked out by then.

[Ualaa]

The addon sites won't be as slow and bogged down, four days from now.

[Tsumi]

I wish I saw this post before I tried to DL the patch to my SSD two times (deleted some stuff second time around)

Sitting through install three on my Main drive and now I see this post!

[Malgor]

The addon sites won't be as slow and bogged down, four days from now.

This is true. I downloaded all the addons that I normally use earlier today. I was able to log all 5 accounts in at once, but alas the latency was so bad I was getting 1-2 FPS in Dalaran. I managed to cast a portal to IF and there it wasn't much better, but I got all 5 toons there.

I'll be logging them in one at a time to redo their talents anyway, I just didn't realize it would be so bad.

It seems Justice points were doled out for our Triumph and Frost badges. I ended up with anywhere from 2300 - 3900 on the different toons. Right now I'm stuck trying to log a single toon in and I see the patch time got changed again to an hour more, but I was in the game prior to that.

[kate]

Exodar is the place to be on Doomhammer - everyone hates it and it was not laggy at all.

Not sure why you're getting another patch wait - you do have all your instances of WoW running from the same folder, I hope?

[Altsoba]

I had the same need but now patch says it can't find wow.
Any ideas on what I might have done wrong/how to fix?

Thank you,
A.

**UPDATE** - Not removing original reply because some people might have the same problem. I was getting it when it ended downloading the last 100Mb and when I tried to run the .exe from the updates folder. I ran Launcher and it looks like it's going on as it should (at least it's updanting :)).

**MORE SURPRISES** - After it had installed (5.29Gb), I have a 901.0Mb download going on... Didn't know about it... What is going to happen next? :D

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well looks like SSD is the only way to go now. 24G onboard ram won't hold the wow folder anymore .....

Im looking into the ocz 50G PCIe SSD (540 read speed and you dont need the newest sata which is nice for my now older mother boards). Probably wait until they hit $160 or so (can get for $189 right now), before I buy six.

[jak3676]

I was able to get my WoW dirctory down to under 17GB on my SSD. Aside from the usual /cache /updates and patch files I went into /data and there was a /data/cache folder as well with about 4.8GB of stuff. I renamed the folder and launched WoW - it recreated the /data/cache folder, but it's only a few hundred MB now, not 4.8GB. I'm not totally convinced this is a safe thing to yet, I'll let you know if I find any problems. Every other post I've seen (including some from blues) say that it should take about 22GB total once patched for 4.01

[Owltoid]

I was able to get my WoW dirctory down to under 17GB on my SSD. Aside from the usual /cache /updates and patch files I went into /data and there was a /data/cache folder as well with about 4.8GB of stuff. I renamed the folder and launched WoW - it recreated the /data/cache folder, but it's only a few hundred MB now, not 4.8GB. I'm not totally convinced this is a safe thing to yet, I'll let you know if I find any problems. Every other post I've seen (including some from blues) say that it should take about 22GB total once patched for 4.01

Thanks for testing this. I'm definitely interested in your results and hopeful everything turns out ok. Keep us updated!

[Sam DeathWalker]

Iv never done simlinking is there a reason wow won't run from a Hard Disk with the data folder linked (with the mklink command) to the SSD?

Well forget that... the data folder is 21g lol ...

I play without sound though so looks like I could dump 4G with no problem.....

Only need textures on the SSD dont need sound there.


It seems that the 5 main files are the mpq files art, expansion1, expansion2, oldworld and world. I bet those 5 contain over 90percent of all the textures we need. Wonder if those 5 could by symlinked (mklink) to the SSD.

[jak3676]

Sorry for a slow responce - been off-line for a week or more.

I will say that I didn't have any problems deleting my /data/cache folder, but it does seem that over time it just creeped back up to the original size again - this did seem to take several weeks to get back to full size though, and I can't say that I had any issues. My lag is always much lower than what most people report anyway - combining that with the stability issues the xpac caused I'm not really sure what the root cause may have been.

My guess is that it slowly downloaded or unpacked some stuff as I went from zone to zone. So at most you could possibly save a little space if you just don't visit outlands (or maybe northrend after the xpac), but I'm not entirely sure that it wouldn't just download it the background anyway. This may also help with some of the issues installing to a SSD where you have plenty of room for the installed patch, but not 2x the space which is what seems to be required to install it.

Overall I don't think this hurt anything, but it didn't seem to help either. I'm back to 21.8GB for my WoW folder.