After upgrading my iMac 2012 21 inch 4K Retina to MacOS Ventura, I could no longer update or even install any WoW Games on my External ScanDisk 500 GB SSD. Which I could before. All games run better if I install them on the external SSD than from the HHD internal Drive. I will be looking into upgrading my HD to SSD when I have funds to do so. But for now I want to know why I cannot run them on my External SSD? I look all over for solution. Even tried installing Battle net on the SSD, but it wouldn’t function properly there. A very specific problem I have, so why I came here.
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I found the Solution, but Disk Utility doesn’t have the NTFS since I would need to buy and download the Drivers. I reformatted the External SSD to MacOS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) and it worked.
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Be aware that case sensitive is not supported by Blizzard’s games. It may work, it may not. In either case, the case sensitive option is not necessary and for most users should not be chosen. Journaled is always active as that is required to “fix” any b-tree errors that may crop up from time to time and is part of the OS.
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You’re not alone! I recently updated to Ventura too and run WoW from a Samsung external SSD. I have been having the same issue all week and cannot fix it.
Case sensitive reformat worked initially but the game is now choppy and laggy. I need a solid fix! I wish I could remove Ventura I hate this problem so much. I miss my game.
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I haven’t even updated to Ventura yet, and already I can’t work WoW from the SSD. But I’ve been fiddling with it a bit trying to collapse some nesting issues and I’ve probably broken something.
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Has anyone had any luck with this issue?
As mentioned previously, I’ve only managed to band-aid the problem.
I was having problems installing or updating WOW on an external SSD. I reformatted it as Mac OS Extended, not case sensitive and everything is working fine. Fortunately WOW was the only thing on the SSD so I didn’t lose anything else.
This was on Ventura and an Intel mac.
I have updated to MacOS Ventura upon its launch. No problem there.
Now after running Disk Utility WoW cannot run properly.
it says
Whoops! Looks like something broke. Give it another shot.​Error Code: BLZBNTAGT00000BB8
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Exact same problem. Tried uninstall and install on internal ssd but same problem. Ventura is great all except for WOW. No fix and no response to my ticket either.
This fix worked for me too. Last night tried deleting the “Data” folder. Wow downloaded everything and started no issue. Today when I launched BattleNet same ole’ error “Whoops! Looks like something broke…” Tried the Ventura fix, reformatted the SSD as “Mac OS Extended” and started up just fine. Camped, and was able to restart and re-enter the game without issue. [EDIT] Then I camped and had dinner and tried to play again. Don’t think it was the drive this time, but rather the patch issue. Delted Data folder again and got it to run. [/EDIT]
Same Problem.
Error code # BLZBNTAGT00000840. and can not update.
Venture is bad update. I don’t like that company.
hate this! first day on vacation and this happened 
will try the extended reformat