Wow updates and changes Folder Share Permissions

Good afternoon… I have a weird thing that I’ve noticed. Since Overwolf ended their API for Curse it made it so I can’t use wowup. I am not a fan of Overwolf due to their business practices in the past (crypto miners forced in software, etc…) So to use curse to do addon management I run it in a VM on my machine with the directory shared so that the VM can see it and have Curse still work to update. that way it is quasi sandboxed and I run the VM when I update addons and when I’m not I don’t have to worry about it doing anything on my machine I don’t want it to.

The issue I’m having now is that whenever I load battle.net to be able to access wow it updates the permissions for the folder that i have network shared so my VM can see it. (resulting in me needing to constantly readd the permission and then setup curse every time i want to update. My question is, how can i get this to stop updating my network share permissions and why is it doing it in the first place.

I’d like to point out that about a month ago i had an issue where battle.net and zygor couldn’t connect to their services online. I’ve done a fresh install of windows and wow on my machine and that has fixed that issue. Prior to this install my share/vm solution worked perfectly. Now it isn’t. Any help available to be able to run the addon manager on the VM and not have WoW remove the share permissions when i open Battle.net?

WowUp does work with Curseforge, you just have to download the client for it.

When did they open the APIs? Last year Curseforge had closed the APIs off.

Not sure. The Wowup devs came to an agreement with Curseforge and they are allowing the use of the API for them.

Found this blog post from Nov 4, 2022.

Thank you for the information. I’ve added WOWup again. however, i’m still not a fan of not being able to have an application change my settings for folders… I’d love a technical reason why it has to be this way.

I never realized I had an alternative to Overwolf for Curseforge. Thank you for this!

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