Crashy Crashy

[Bradven]

OK,

So Mac was flying from Tanaris to 1000 needles so I alt+tabbed out to look something up. I get an error message and WoW shuts down. Not the first time this has happened (albiet rare). So log back and and try to bringing Mac back on. Before the splash screen is done - bam, crash again.

I look at the error message a little closer and it's telling me one of my kalimdor*.adt files is corrupt.

So I do a lil searching and seems blizzard has a 'repair' tool that will search your files and repair any corrupted ones - PERFECT!. I run this tool, check all my stuff and basically returns with a "wow - you're fucked". It resets all my files to patch 2.0.0, then tells me to run the patch tool again.

So I run the patch tool again, it downloads and patches to 2.3.? (I forget what we're at). So I figure ok, this took 3.5 hours but atleast it should all be sorted now right? Go to log on Mac and bam - exact same problem.

Now it seems my next move is to uninstall/reinstall. With patching that'll be a good 6-7 hours. So thought I'd hit here incase anyone else has some thoughts on something else to try....

EDIT - Spelling /sigh

[Posidian]

Now it seems my next move is to uninstall/reinstall. With patching that'll be a good 6-7 hours. So thought I'd hit here incase anyone else has some thoughts on something else to try....


Best move is always to uninstall/reinstall. The repair tool works most of the time but not every time.

There are a few files in the WoW folder you can remove....its the WTF folder and 1 other....I'm not at home so I can't think of it (Logs maybe). You should be able to drag these folders to your desktop and run WoW. Those 2 folders will recreate themselves "new" when WoW is booted up. This sometime helps narrow down the problem.

Otherwise you said you DL'd the patchs so by reinstalling the game you should be able to just use the patches you currently DL'd and repatch the game saving yourself a few hours.

[Bradven]

Thanks Posidian,

I jsut read about the WTF folder and the other one (cna't think of it either) so I'll give that a shot but I'm less then optimistic (THough I think it safe to say that's how I spend my life - less then optimisitic).

Any ide aif the patches are cumulative? I assume not. If I re-install I'm back at patch 1.0.0 basically. O while I'll have downloaded the 2.3 patch don't I still need to get from 1.0.0 to 2.2.?

Oh well, it'll get sorted in the end, just annoying. And atleast it's on MAc and not Brad so I'm still good for KZ tonight :)