Anyone have trouble installing patch?

I changed over to using Symlinks since the last patch and now I cannot even patch my game....

I have the patch totally downloaded through the Blizzard Downloader and when it attempts so patch I get this..

The file "WoW.exe" could not be found. If this problem persists, you may be able to solve it by uninstalling and then reinstalling the game. If you are unable to correct this problem, please contact Blizzard Technical Support.

I damn file is there so I don't know where the downloader is looking but obviously not in the right place.


Ok this is stupid but when I renamed my Wow folder from (World of Warcraft 2 ->Wow2) in order to symlink my WOW's the blizzard downloader goes FUBAR. I changed the folder name back and the patch works.....sigh...

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Originally Posted by 'Gares',index.php?page=Thread&postID=169491#post16 9491

I changed over to using Symlinks since the last patch and now I cannot even patch my game....

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I am having a similar problem except it is unable to open an support html page. I tried changing the directory names but to no avail. I will post when I have a solution.

I patched one wow and it removed the symlink somehow. What I had to do is re-symlink my directory. Then I copied the patched wow folders wow.exe and launcher.exe into my other folders. After I did that everything worked fine. I would suggest trying to patch from your main wow folder then do the copy to the alts.

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Originally Posted by 'pinotnoir',index.php?page=Thread&postID=169528#po st169528

I patched one wow and it removed the symlink somehow. What I had to do is re-symlink my directory. Then I copied the patched wow folders wow.exe and launcher.exe into my other folders. After I did that everything worked fine. I would suggest trying to patch from your main wow folder then do the copy to the alts.

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Yeah I pretty much did the same thing and got mine to work as well.

I patched, but there was something wrong with the patch.
Now when I try to connect to wow, I get a red error box over the username/password screen.
If I click Okay, to close it, I can enter username/password/authenticator number... then it tries to redownload the patch, which only takes 1 second since its there already.
Then I get the error message of how the patch is already installed... requires wow version 3.03.xxxx but I already have 3.08.xxxx installed.
As per technical support, I tried downloading the patch from another site, but still get the message that the patch has already been applied.
Going into each of my individual wow folders (Set up... Wow Parent + 5 SymLinked Folders.. one per account), from any of the six folders I get the same error, either wow.exe or launcher.exe.
The repair tool finds nothing wrong with warcraft from any of the folders.

I don't really want to reinstall, but looks like that's the only remaining option.

I also had similar problems when I downloaded it via Blizzard. It couldn't find the wow.exe file or something. I had to download it from filefront (or one of the other mirrors, don't recall). Downloading it from the mirror and installing it that way worked for me though. I copied all the "non-directory" files to my other folders and all was well. I couldn't even find which folder the original downloaded patch file from Blizzard went.

Many of us have more than one pc, so here it what I do. A seperate pc downloads the patch to a plain wow install so it is all clean. Then I copy the important data over the network to patch up the symlinks etc. Works like a charm everytime.

The machine you use to patch with doesn't need to be able to run wow. All you need is enough hard drive space for the game.