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

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.

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

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Originally Posted by cmeche

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

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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.

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.

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.

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"

Very good work, folks.

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

Thanks.

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

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.

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.