Missing .exe

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."

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

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

Yeah I hate the repair tool for that exact reason.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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?t...ly%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.

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

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!