Multiple WoW's+patch AND YOU!?

[TMNT]

I have four different WoW client installs on my computer, One for each character. As far as the patch goes how do i only download it once (currently from Blizzard, even tho its so slow, because its the only one i could find out) and have it transfer to my other copys without it deleting my bindings and cameras and etc.

Thanks
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[caldvn]

currently from Blizzard, even tho its

Look for Patches folder, copy the corresponding patch folder to the rest of you other wow folders.

[Gallo]

currently from Blizzard, even tho its

Look for Patches folder, copy the corresponding patch folder to the rest of you other wow folders.

Not only that, but I think that you need to actually run the patch from inside of each WoW folder that you have. I dont think just putting it there will make that particular WoW recognize that its there. It only recognizes that it downloaded it or not.

[Khazrael]

Not only that, but I think that you need to actually run the patch from inside of each WoW folder that you have. I dont think just putting it there will make that particular WoW recognize that its there. It only recognizes that it downloaded it or not.

This is certainly true. I've been dealing with some of this lately as I just recently got myself two other hard drives so that I could run separate installations. Just last night I did this for the previous patches to get my new installations up to date, and you do indeed have to copy them to your new directory, and then run each patch on each installation you have.

You have to run the patches separate times, but at least you don't have to download them for each installation.

[Xzin]

Maybe somebody could do a writeup for the Wiki?

Or write a script or open source program to patch X number of installs?

[Eteocles]

Zin...didn't someone write such a program for you a long while back, before the forums were changed? I think it was stickied in the software forums for awhile, it was a batch-patcher or something no?

[TMNT]

I like how we get this post every time a patch hits.

Considering there haven't been alot of patches out recently and considering all the new MB'er spare some heat.

[marvein]

Zin...didn't someone write such a program for you a long while back, before the forums were changed? I think it was stickied in the software forums for awhile, it was a batch-patcher or something no?

Im pretty sure it is still there, I dont remember it ever being a sticky though.

[TMNT]

I like how we get this post every time a patch hits.

Considering there haven't been alot of patches out recently and considering all the new MB'er spare some heat.

It was just an observation, nothing more. II could have told you to use the search feature, because I know there is at leeast one thread, possibly more that describes how to do this in detail...

EDIT

Then you would of had 20 more newbs posting topics. So i decided to do it before anyone else would. You should really congrats me!

[Basilikos]

Hold up on trying to find your patches folder in your WoW installations. For me, and maybe this was JUST for me for some odd reason, it moved to an all users folder in my documents area. This might just be a Vista thing, but I can't imagine why that would be.

Anyhow, the patches are, like I said - for me, being downloaded there. I have all my machines wired up together, so I just download the patch on my main machine (and that's easy to notice since I actually open the launcher on that one). The others never let me know that there is a patch coming down since I open the other 4 clients on the other 2 machines with Maximizer. After everything is downloaded, I just transfer the patch files over the network to the location the game expects to find them and everything just works out.

I start the individual clients and they see the patch files, verify them, and install.

So before you go hunting in your WoW installs, double check that the patches aren't going some place else first