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I have a Mac and am getting the same problem, any ideas what to do for that or sort of follow the same steps?

Try buying a pc... itll b better in the long run :P

Tried it and it worked, thanks Juggy!

Im running Vista and have never had that problem. *Knock on wood*

This occured to me when I upgraded from my old comptuer to the new one. I copied my wow directory from the old machine to the new. Everything ran fine until patch day then I tried to download the patch and got the afore mentioned problem and fix.

It appears that you can easily move WoW from one machine to the other but during the install or when its first run it writes an entry to the registry for the location of the WoW.exe. The patches then use this key to locate your wow directory. If you don't run wow as an administrator on Vista it won't be allowed to write this entry thus any patch will fail.

Just some more technical background on this issue incase your interested.

Now a' days, A LOT of poeple use vista; its very popular, even among WoW users. Its fuuy how Blizz cant fix this issue, when maybe 1/5 of their users are involved

This is probably because WoW is installed in the Program Files folder which has admin restrictions. When I reinstalled WoW on my Vista Machine once, it asked if I wanted to put it in the \Users\Public\Games folder. I did and WoW has worked perfectly with no Update issues.

Octaviax:

It's not Blizzard's issue. It's Microsoft's.

@Random_Tangent I don't really think it's an issue, it's conflict which can be resolved. Again, Putting WoW into the Public user's folder will prevent having the admin requirement.

Patch applied fine for me on OS 10.5 ;3.

Now just a 4 hour wait for realms to get online... sigh.

i started up my mac, and i downloaded the patch, it works with little problem, unlike all the people i know with PC . there busy pulling there hair out right now =P

just asking my own question. what should we do to kill this down time xD

the patch isnt out yet? or is it to download the beta? >.<

@ Kakaka,
I do believe the patch came out today, too many peoples surprise who thought it would come out next week. so yes its the patch not the beta

well, patch only took me 19min. now just waiting on server to come back up. mine was scheduled for extra maintanence, so I won't be in a rush to sign on. Figure there will be normal probs when patches come so I will just sign on late.

also, there is now a vid on worldofwarcraft.com, just click on patch 3.2 and scroll down a bit. enjoy while you wait for servers.

FT Alliance!!

I didnt get that error :D

just waiting for the servers to go up

any idea when the servers willl be back up i been waiting to try out the new awsomenes since 8 am

I would urge everyone that, unless it is necessary, to NOT install WoW in the Program Files folder. As Wyndgem said, that folder usually has admin restrictions and can be a major source of headache if you're trying to download a patch.

i am getting bored of soul calibur when are teh servers going to be up

My thanks to the Juggybox.

I installed Wow on an entirely different Partition from the OS. That way I can wipe the OS partition at any time and not have to worry about reinstalling or moving wow.

i think this is longest (not counting sleep or school) i went without wow

I got a completely different error. I forget exactly what it said but it was mentioning some specific files relating to Wintergrasp. Repair filed. Looking online I saw someone with the same problem who said even uninstalling and reinstalling from cd failed. When I tried that drastic solution it failed for me also. I'm now downloading the game client from scratch. After a few hours it is now at 5%. Oh, I forgot to mention when the patch install crashed it took my video driver and antivirus program with it. Thank god for system restore. This is far from the first time a Wow patch has been such an adventure and on different computers too. All that said I'm anxious to get playing. If I had to reformat every time to get it to work I probably would.

It appears the idiots are in charge now, one guild on our server has completed ulduar and they did so last lockout. Now we are rushing in new content that replaces the old content with gear and upgrades that mean focusing on the new content is more productive progression wise than spending any more time in ulduar.

Why? So they could refresh in game content as quick as possible without flushing out the bugs? I still have 4 months on my sub so a lot can happen between now and then but I'm finding these moves really leave me not even caring if I can get on-line tonight at all.

I have good error that i been messing with all day. maybe someone out there can help. I've ran repair, ran as admin. etc, basically everything i can think of. oh also a fresh reinstall and update. however still am getting the error.

The file "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe.temp" could not be renamed to "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe"

vista 64 bit. any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks

By grmrlee on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

I have good error that i been messing with all day. maybe someone out there can help. I’ve ran repair, ran as admin. etc, basically everything i can think of. oh also a fresh reinstall and update. however still am getting the error.

The file “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe.temp” could not be renamed to “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe”

vista 64 bit. any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks

I have the same problem need help also