I’m trying to put WoW on a backup because I don’t play anymore. (But don’t want to permanently delete it in case they bring back valour points.)
The USB I am putting it on has limited space. And WoW is clocking in at a whopping 127 gigs!
Are there some files that are not necessary to back up? Like temporary files that I can safely get rid of and not be prompted to “re-install” later?
When was the last time you backed things up ?
It’s possible you have the old MPQ era updater programs in your wow folder. Their naming sequence is essentially wow dash buildnumber to buildnumber.exe or just buildnumber.exe
IMHO the best option is to grab a file tree size utility like Jam Software’s Treesize Free and point that at your Wow folder.
Anything that’s in the Data folder and the client programs like wow-64.exe are essential so don’t delete those.
my wow size is 79.1 and that’s with classic I don’t
why yours is so big
I concur with Assabelora, it sounds like WoW might have missed a chance to reclaim disk space on an update somewhere, my install is only 73 gigs. There might be an update patch that didn’t get deleted or something along those lines.
I’ve got three sub-folders in my World of Warcraft folder:
retail at 737 megs
data at 69 gigs
A second World of Warcraft sub-folder at 56 gigs
what sort of stuff is in that world of warcraft subfolder that is 56 gigs? seems like that might be a second complete copy of the game.
Crystalsinge,
I agree with Tofflemire here. There should not be a second World of Warcraft sub-folder located inside the main World of Warcraft folder. That kind of sounds like the game somehow got reinstalled inside the main folder, so you effectively have two installs of the game.
You can safely delete that sub folder, so you only have _retail_ and Data folders remaining, along with the other files in there.