I am trying to reinstall WoW to my mac, but I am having a ton of problems. I deleted all my WoW files and folders a while ago, so nothing is on my computer - I need to install all three games. However, its consistently failing to install - it sometimes asks me to insert the WoTLK disc half way through installation, or it will complete installation and the downloader will fail and tell me to reinstall.

I dont have the discs because I installed everything through my account - online. Please help. Thank you.

Morning Everyone,


To install WoW, please use ONLY the WotLK installer. It will install all 3 games in one take.

There is no need to download all three games since you are triplication the job:

Original WoW installer : Installs Original WoW

Burning Crusade Installer : Installs Original WoW + Burning Crusade

WotLK Installer : Installs Original WoW + Burning Crusade + Wrath of the Lich King


If you downloaded all 3 you basically have installed and reinstalled the original WoW 3 times and BC 2 times. As you can imagine, this may and usually does, pose issues.

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In order to remove World of Warcraft safely from your system, please do the following:

1. go to your Macintosh HD => Applications folder (or wherever you saved the game) and move your World of Warcraft to the Trash
2. go to your Macintosh HD => Users => Shared folder and move the Blizzard folder to the Trash
3. go to your Macintosh HD => Users => your account => Library => Preferences and delete any files associated with WOW:
(some files may not appear due to non-use)

- com.blizzard.downloader.plist
- com.blizzard.Downloader.prefs
- com.blizzard.errorreporter.plist
- com.blizzard.Installer.plist
- com.blizzard.launcher.plist
- com.blizzard.World of Warcraft.prefs
- com.blizzard.World of Warcraft.survey.prefs

4. empty Trash


To reinstall the game, please do the following (make sure to check your account type):

For Original WoW accounts:

5. Install from disc(s) or download the installer
- (Downloading will get you the 2.3.0 version which may save you some patching time, if your disc has an older version.)
6. patch to the latest version of the game


For Burning Crusade accounts:

5. Install World of Warcraft from disc(s) then right afterwards install the Burning Crusade from disc(s) or
download the Burning Crusade installer
- ( What is recommend is downloading the Burning Crusade Full Client Installer and patching it, since this
will install both the original World of Warcraft and Burning Crusade in one take and get you to version 2.3.0 to begin with and you will have less patches to download. )
6. patch to the latest version of the game


For Wrath of the Lich King accounts:

5. Install the Wrath of the Lich King from the DVD or downloaded installer, which will install the original World of Warcraft, Burning Crusade and the Wrath of the Lich King in one take.
6. patch to the latest version of the game


All installers can be downloaded from your account web site (you will need to log into your account):
http://us.battle.net/account