07-24-2008, 09:54 PM
Not knowing about the other options, what finally worked for installation were the CD's. Several patches later, what then remained was rebuilding the settings, UI and all the macros. For the most part each character took about two hours, but one macro took four hours to figure out again.
When I was more or less done configuring I wanted to back up my 8.97 gig WoW directory. Across the network the common.mpq file alone took two days to transfer. I eventually gave up. Copying the same WoW directory to another directory on the same machine (i.e. not across the network) took...I don't know how long it took. I was measuring the time but it was less than a bio break, on the order of five minutes.
I wish I could do something about the slow network, but at least I can play WoW again. I copied the wtf directory to the other machine.
When I was more or less done configuring I wanted to back up my 8.97 gig WoW directory. Across the network the common.mpq file alone took two days to transfer. I eventually gave up. Copying the same WoW directory to another directory on the same machine (i.e. not across the network) took...I don't know how long it took. I was measuring the time but it was less than a bio break, on the order of five minutes.
I wish I could do something about the slow network, but at least I can play WoW again. I copied the wtf directory to the other machine.
"I may be old, but I'm not dead."