How to patch

[Phate]

Mine acted kind of bizarrely. The launcher didn't update the copy of WoW in it's directory, but after running all 3, all 3 updated properly. Very strange, especially since my installs are on different physical drives.

[Wilbur]

I think this is because you haven't added extra registry keys for the extra WoWs.

Try doing that and see if it works.

[schlange]

I think this is because you haven't added extra registry keys for the extra WoWs.

Try doing that and see if it works.

I would love to, if you can provide instructions :P

[Wilbur]

erm...

Not sat at a PC with WoW installed right now :-(

[marvein]

I think this is because you haven't added extra registry keys for the extra WoWs.

Try doing that and see if it works.

I dont have any either and the only issue I ran into was I could not do them all at once, no errors or anything though.

[schlange]

Update errors AGAIN.

 The file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Blizzard Entertainment\World of Warcraft\Uninstall.xml" could not be renamed to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Blizzard Entertainment\World of Warcraft\Uninstall.xml.Trash". (ConflictManager::ResolveConflicts/3) To check this installation for problems, click the "Repair" button. The Repair tool can automatically fix many update errors.

I ran the launcher from each WOW and I get the error again that it cannot patch the file.

This is after I had to reinstall. Do you all reinstall after every patch? I cannot figure out why I get errors.

Maybe someone can provide the directions on manually updating the registery keys so I can do that.

[Lost Ninja]

After 2.3 I had most of the above issues, coupled with a computer that wouldn't do an exact copy eg when I copied a working WoW install it wouldn't run (crashed with errors). And I couldn't get the main install to patch...

I deleted (not un-installed) everything (with careful backups), reinstalled and applied all the patches (cunningly saved), since then I haven't had any issues. I manually copy the patch file (not the downloader) into each installation directory and run it, that gives no errors. If anything I think the issues were caused by too many conflicting registry entries rather than not enough. The error about not being able to write the un-install log is AFAIK due to the patcher looking for WoW in one place but WoW being somewhere else.

[-silencer-]

I haven't ever had a problem patching multiple copies of WoW.. so here's my full process starting from a clean (no WoW installed) machine:
- Install WoW & TBC. (C:\Program Files/World of Warcraft)
- Run WoW to download all patches up to current version.
- Copy WoW Maximizer.exe & .ini to main WoW folder.
- Make a copy of that WoW folder for each login on my other drive (I like my macros/add-ons separate). (D:\WoW2, D:\WoW3, etc)
- Edit Maximizer.ini in each of the WoW folders for the correct window resolution and screen offset location.
- Make a Multilog.bat script to load up my 5 instances of WoW, using these lines:
"start C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Maximizer.exe"
"ping 127.0.0.1 -n 6"
"start D:\WoW2\Maximizer.exe"
"ping 127.0.0.1 -n 6"
etc..
This will pause about 6 seconds after loading each instance of WoW - enough time to bring up the login screen and position it correctly on my monitors.
- Use Multilog.bat until next Tuesday - patches are coming.
- Load just my main copy of WoW to login and retrieve patch (if any available). Download & patch that install of WoW.
- Using Win Explorer, manually copy new patch files from the main folder to all other WoW install folders. Check the version or date of the files to see which are new.
- Individually load up each of the other WoW installs by loading WoW.exe in each install. Go through the patching process for each one. It should be much faster since you've already got the patch downloaded and copied to the local directory. Exit each WoW install when it is finished.
- Use Multilog.bat to play WoW again.