Something Faaaar Wrong

[Milli]

Maybe it's just me missing something.... but thought i'd log on and install the patch etc...

so all goes fine -

- Downloading Updated Tools
- Runs Optimizer???  (fair enough something new I think)

- Proceeds to D/L 15Gb's Worth of files....  okies on my line speed i'll see you next year

Had a look on forums etc - but no blue posts re: solving this

Tried the Check Files / Repair but still the same

Any ideas guys?

[TeaLeaf]

15GB sounds like it broke something and is re-downloading.  Following my Optimzer run this morning it downloaded just under 1.5GB (possibly a smaller replacement files for the new compacted version of WoW in your HDD).   15GB is harsh though.....

[Slush]

My install got messed up after 4.3.2 hit, Launcher kept saying I had to run repair-tool. But repair-tool found nothing wrong. I decided to run a new installation over the old one to if that would fix it. It did, but that was a 9 gb download.

The optimizer is there to free up hard-disk space, but the big download might be because some files are corrupted/deleted/damgaged or something down that lane. You can probably still play while this is downloading? Is the Available/Playable marker on red, yellow or green (if it is visible)?

[Milli]

Cheers for replies guys - left it D/Ling over night and all seems well now thank god

[Azunai]

What it's doing is basically combining all the .mpq packages for each patch and expansion (which contain all the models, textures, sounds etc.) into more singular ones, which means a smaller install size. I'm guessing it couldn't find some of those original files and decided to redownload? :-)