Quote Originally Posted by 'Catamer',index.php?page=Thread&postID=165021#post 165021
why does everyone sym-link multiple copies of wow?

I've only put one copy of wow on my pc and run all of my accounts from it.
Is this for some special key binding? Aren't the key bindings by account anyway?
Because you almost always want different graphics settings, sound off, different mods, etc between your main and the slaves. So you run two directories (one for the main, another for all the slaves) and symlink the data directory to help the OS and hard disk caches.

I have also started symlinking a few files in the wow directories since it tends to confuse itself after patches, but that's not really necessary.