10-11-2008, 02:59 PM
I'm in the situation of not having enough space on the drive that WoW is installed on to download the patch. Now this also means I won't have enough space to install it, but in order to put off uninstalling things till absolutely the last minute; I have figured out how to make it download to another drive. In case others need to do this as well here is how I am doing it.
You need to copy BackgroundDownloader.exe and Wow.exe to where you want it to download. If you just have those files then it will download an update to 3.0.2 for classic WoW which is about 2.5G in size. Of course most of us are running TBC and so don't want the classic update. If you create a Data folder and make a file called expansion.MPQ in it the downloader will then download the update to 3.0.2 for TBC which is 1.17G in size. It is a stopgap measure to needing to find the space, but I figure it could be useful knowledge.
You need to copy BackgroundDownloader.exe and Wow.exe to where you want it to download. If you just have those files then it will download an update to 3.0.2 for classic WoW which is about 2.5G in size. Of course most of us are running TBC and so don't want the classic update. If you create a Data folder and make a file called expansion.MPQ in it the downloader will then download the update to 3.0.2 for TBC which is 1.17G in size. It is a stopgap measure to needing to find the space, but I figure it could be useful knowledge.