Mac Free trial patch help

[salsadestroyer]

I downloaded the game, and it ran perfectly. Then, it started doing patch after patch of small patches witch installed fine. Then a big one (2.6gb, i think it's the something like 2.4.2 to 3.0.2 patch) came and took 7 hours, then this error message came up "World of Warcraft could not be found. Please make sure the game is properly installed." It is installed in the Application section of my account and runs fine, so it's obviously installed. Anyone know what I should do???

[Kalos]

You're patching it quite a strange manner, why do you not get the total combined uptodate patch rather than leaping in between the obsolete versions? It'd be less likely to screw up like what has happened here then.

[salsadestroyer]

You're patching it quite a strange manner, why do you not get the total combined uptodate patch rather than leaping in between the obsolete versions? It'd be less likely to screw up like what has happened here then.
I just launched the game and that's what it downloaded. It's only the trial but i won't buy it until i at least try it, i think if I bought it it would work but i'm not going to waste like 80 bucks for a game a don't like. When i launch updater, it gives me the same problem "cannot find game" of something. in the wow forums on the site it breifly states that if updater can't find the game to delete some files but that doesn't work either. i additionally installed the patches from a mirror but that won't work either. what should i do.

[Kalos]

Completely uninstall the game and make sure that not a single file remains of the base directory for the game.

Reinstall the game, download the current all-in-one patch from a mirror site, and use that once. When it screws up like this, and deleting the temporay cache folders (which you've already done it seems) isn't work, wiping all trace of it and going from square one is the only real way to go.

Yeah, this doesn't show up well on the game, but it has occasionally been known to spaz out on patching, so as a habbit I advise not to go through unnecessary patching operations (little fragments one by one is the worst approach with the most risk of jamming everything up, but that's how the Blizzard Downloader does it -_- )

[salsadestroyer]

Completely uninstall the game and make sure that not a single file remains of the base directory for the game.

Reinstall the game, download the current all-in-one patch from a mirror site, and use that once. When it screws up like this, and deleting the temporay cache folders (which you've already done it seems) isn't work, wiping all trace of it and going from square one is the only real way to go.

Yeah, this doesn't show up well on the game, but it has occasionally been known to spaz out on patching, so as a habbit I advise not to go through unnecessary patching operations (little fragments one by one is the worst approach with the most risk of jamming everything up, but that's how the Blizzard Downloader does it -_- )
Thanks, i followed a different threads advice and had to do something like launch the game not the launcher >_< i forget but it worked. anyway if i want to buy the game i have to buy the original, bc, and wotlk seperatly right? i can't just buy wotlk? and completely reinstall the whole thing?

[Kalos]

Thanks, i followed a different threads advice and had to do something like launch the game not the launcher >_< i forget but it worked. anyway if i want to buy the game i have to buy the original, bc, and wotlk seperatly right? i can't just buy wotlk? and completely reinstall the whole thing?
That's correct, you have to buy them all. It isn't so much for the data on the CDs inside, that's actually free and online. The account creation and upgrade keys come with each boxset, skip the original and you can't create an account to upgrade, and it all goes in a line.