Solution to: "Files in your heroes of the storm folder are damaged"

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It is a problem, if you have uninstalled the HOTS before and try to download it again. Basically, your files are corrupted. If you want to play the game do following:
Go to your document files -> Find Heroes of the Storm -> down should be text file: variables.txt and on bottom little cross icon. It means, that file is unreadable. Remove that file. When you open HOTS again, it downloads a working file.

And I recommend you to look all files inside documents Heroes of the Storm, cause there might be more of those corrupted files that you can see by the little cross icon. Remove all of those, and the game should work as normal.

Hope this might help some of you, who had this problem :3

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Hey, thanks for sharing! Indeed, that might be useful for those who are looking for the solution for this problem. Since we’re on the subject, here are also some ideas how to get rid of that particular error if that fix didn’t work.

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Thank you!
Got a new laptop and wanted to try if it could handle hots, but got this error the first time I tried to start it up. It started up like normal after this step.

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This saved me, thank you!!