So I’m trying to download a couple games that i lost from when i switched from old Wc3 to the reforged one (Redownloaded after buying reforged) and can’t find anywhere to put the maps. Any help?
Yeah, so, they changed the system. The goal is to make it fit more with Windows rather than having Warcraft III as a self contained installation in a single folder.
In the past, you had your Warcraft installation in a folder such as C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III and this folder would contain a sub folder named Maps that would hold the maps you created as well as all the original maps included with the game.
One of the most common issues ever since Windows 7 was that the game would install as Administrator but the player on the computer was not running the World Editor as an Administrator. When this happens, if I make a new map and attempt to save it in the World Editor as the file C:\Program Files (x86)Warcraft III\Maps\ReterasNewCustomMap.w3x then during the saving process Windows 7 will show NO ERROR when the user presses OK to save, but because the user is not allowed to save the map in that folder Windows will instead save the file to a mirrored temporary directory in an AppData folder so that the World Editor sees the map file, but it’s not really there and the game doesn’t see the file because it is in the insane mirrored temporary directory generated by Windows.
Because of this insanity in the Windows operating system, Blizzard felt they needed to make users store maps in a different place. They moved user maps to Documents\Warcraft III\Maps\. I believe you can also modify this location in the Windows Registry, although I have not personally done so.
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