opening 2 wow's on iMac with leopard.

[Manarath]

I searched google on how to do it and ran across a thread here from 2007 and i tried runing the sheel scripts and stuff in terminal but it was confusing and it didnt work the closest I got was it opened up one window then I exited it and another window appeared but not at the same time. So if anybody could give me step by step instructions on how to copy the wow folders and make a script or whatever so far I made a "wowcopy" folder inside of my original "world of warcraft" folder I copied the Cache, Data, Interface, Logs, Realmlist.wtf, World of warcraft shortcut, WTF folder. all inside and made a script

#!/bin/sh

p1="/Applications/World of Warcraft"

p2=$p1/wowcopy

mkdir "$p2"

ln -s "$p1/Data" "$p2/Data"

cp "$p1/realmlist.wtf" "$p2/realmlist.wtf"

ditto -X "$p1/World of Warcraft.app" "$p2/World of Warcraft.app"


but it crashes as soon as it opens and gives me a send error message to blizzard. So any help would be wonderfull thanks.

[Manarath]

/bump really need some help just a step by step to open up 2 seperate wow windows at once on my iMac! help would be greatly apreciated as I just got my second account and want to start duelboxing.

[MultiMacBox23]

this is what i used for my machine to make 4 additional wow symlink directories inside my main warcraft directory.



#!/bin/sh
p1="/Applications/World of Warcraft"
p2=$p1/WoWCopy
mkdir "$p2"
ln -s "$p1/Data" "$p2/Data"
ln -s "$p1/Interface" "$p2/Interface"
cp "$p1/realmlist.wtf" "$p2/realmlist.wtf"
ditto -X "$p1/World of Warcraft.app" "$p2/World of Warcraft.app"
p3=$p1/WoWCopy2
mkdir "$p3"
ln -s "$p1/Data" "$p3/Data"
ln -s "$p1/Interface" "$p3/Interface"
cp "$p1/realmlist.wtf" "$p3/realmlist.wtf"
ditto -X "$p1/World of Warcraft.app" "$p3/World of Warcraft.app"
p4=$p1/WoWCopy3
mkdir "$p4"
ln -s "$p1/Data" "$p4/Data"
ln -s "$p1/Interface" "$p4/Interface"
cp "$p1/realmlist.wtf" "$p4/realmlist.wtf"
ditto -X "$p1/World of Warcraft.app" "$p4/World of Warcraft.app"
p5=$p1/WoWCopy4
mkdir "$p5"
ln -s "$p1/Data" "$p5/Data"
ln -s "$p1/Interface" "$p5/Interface"
cp "$p1/realmlist.wtf" "$p5/realmlist.wtf"
ditto -X "$p1/World of Warcraft.app" "$p5/World of Warcraft.app"




copy that into a text file named "copywarcraft.sh"

then execute it.

[Manarath]

it wont let me save the text document as a .sh it will only let me do .doc.sh or something like that but I did jsut copy the whole wow folder so i am able to bring 2 up atm but its an extra 13gigs on my hard drive.

[MultiMacBox23]

were you using textedit? i used textwrangler to edit it. its a text editor geared for people who code, and doesnt default to adding the .doc for saving files. i believe its a free download.

you could also save it as a .doc, and then change the extension later, and OSX will ask you if you "really" want to change it to .sh

Also, running 2 copied directories will slow things down, as the read head on the hard drive is bouncing back and for from 1 directory to the other, trying to read the same files, at the same time, from 2 different physical locations on the disc platters.

[Soundeyes]

This technique uses the terminal but it's done with clicks and no actual command line tricks. It is far simpler then modifying files and writing scripts.

1. Goto your World of Warcraft folder
2. Right click World of Warcraft and choose "Show Package Contents"
3. Open "Contents"
4. Open "MacOS"
5. You will now see the actual World of Warcraft executable file
6. Right click it and select "Make Alias"
7. Put the alias on your desktop
8. Click it to launch WoW
9. Goto step 8

This is how I run 5x WoW in OSX

[Indestructigal]

so far I made a "wowcopy" folder inside of my original "world of warcraft" folder I copied the Cache, Data, Interface, Logs, Realmlist.wtf, World of warcraft shortcut, WTF folder. all inside and made a script [...]

I think you accidentally ended up combining two different methods by both copying directories and using the symlink script. You need to choose one or the other, and not do both. It sounds like you did manage to solve your problem by reverting to the copy method, but if you want to go back to the symlink method, here's something you can try:

Fire up a Terminal session by executing the Terminal program in /Applications/Utilities. This gives you a command shell you can use to execute all the commands.

In that shell, assuming your original WoW is in "/Applications/World of Warcraft", type the following commands

mkdir /Applications/wowcopy
ln -s "/Applications/World of Warcraft/Data" /Applications/wowcopy/Data
ln -s "/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface" /Applications/wowcopy/Interface
ditto -X "/Applications/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft.app" "/Applications/wowcopy/World of Warcraft.app"

and you're done (i think i remembered everything). Oh, and be careful with the quotes because the shell needs them to know "World of Warcraft" is a direcory name and not the end of the first argument.

By the way, the realmlist.wtf step isn't needed any more because they moved the _real_ realmlist file somewhere else. The one in the base directory is just left over from earlier versions.

Once you've done those simple steps, you can just open finder and navigate to /Applications/wowcopy and execute the "World of Warcraft" there to get your second copy.