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Transferring WOW to another computer.
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Josh396
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Connecting the two computers via firewire and booting one up in Target Disk mode would be your fastest route. However, assuming they're both on the same network (wireless or wired), you could also transfer them that way but that may take quite some time depending on your set up. Or you could always download the game from Worldofwarcraft.com
go to the account management website and download the client from there, free of charge
or LAN transfer it
or LAN transfer it
digitard
macrumors 6502a
As Oz said. You can go to www.worldofwarcraft.com and login to your account (top left in the account section) and if you scroll down there's a Download link. It will download the current version (minus maybe a patch or two which it will just get after install) for you.
That's what I did. I have WoW on my PC (my gaming system), and decided to put it on my new MBP to see how it performed (amazing BTW) and the installer took care of everything. Pretty fast too... was 900+ KBps download the entire time.
Though, regardless, I'd recommend to save your "addons" folder if you've added anything at all to the installation (cartographer, quest helper, Auctioneer, etc) and put it back in the folder after your installation. The default addons folder is World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons.
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That's what I did. I have WoW on my PC (my gaming system), and decided to put it on my new MBP to see how it performed (amazing BTW) and the installer took care of everything. Pretty fast too... was 900+ KBps download the entire time.
Though, regardless, I'd recommend to save your "addons" folder if you've added anything at all to the installation (cartographer, quest helper, Auctioneer, etc) and put it back in the folder after your installation. The default addons folder is World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons.
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Fnord
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WTF Folder
The WTF folder inside the World of Warcraft folder (I believe it stands for Warcraft Text Files) is where all of your addons store any information they need to. You probably want to move that over to the new computer (or dig down into it a couple levels and move the SavedVariables folders, there is a global one, plus one for each character).
The WTF folder inside the World of Warcraft folder (I believe it stands for Warcraft Text Files) is where all of your addons store any information they need to. You probably want to move that over to the new computer (or dig down into it a couple levels and move the SavedVariables folders, there is a global one, plus one for each character).