Battle.net app keeps initializing and reclaiming disc space for WoW

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ah yes this thing happened for me for a very long time and even today, I thought it was normal but it seems the issues is everywhere, glad im not alone

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Would have been very useful, had some blue crosspost or link that US thread a LOT sooner. Really.

Maybe you need to hire some external communications specialists, to handle things like that.

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Just turn off auto update till Blizzard fix this.

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Has anyone solved it yet? My Classic game keeps re-updating and wont launch… Not even from finder can I launch it. Retail wow and TBC launches just fine though…

Hopefully this gets fixed before SoM launch…

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There is no solution yet.

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This thing started at thursday night after they opened name res for som servers.
Still no solution.

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Unfortunately it doesn’t. You are unable to play as you are required to ‘update’ (there is no play button)

I have it set (as I always have) to ‘Never Automatically Apply Updates’ but you still get this (I know it is the PTR but it is the same for retail

https://i.imgur.com/1JPH2jv.png

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I’ve got the same issues. Blizz remains silent as usual.

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Everytime I boot up the computer or start the Battle.net app retail WoW and TBC Classic is updating. TBC is at 100% immediately and retail at 0% but none of them does anything.
I have to restart the app for them to slowly complete.

It began after 9.1.5

I doubt there’s a new update each time. How can I resolve this?

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See this thread:

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Happened to me to. I started the battle.net app as admin one time and that gave it permission to do whatever it needed to do. After that it stopped and you don’t have to run as admin.

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This worked for me, ran as admin and the updates stopped after four days. Cheers.

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Hello

If like me you are experiencing issues with the launcher and wish to play;

Go to where the game is saved on your hard drive (for example)

C:\World of Warcraft_classic_

WowClassic icon at the bottom > right click > OPEN (bypass the Battlenet Launcher).

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The problem is still there. I saw the flag on bnet where they said they were aware of the issue, but they have removed it so in case they think it’s fixed, it is not.

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75

it is seems it fixed

76

I still have the same issue, though with the Hearthstone Client.

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Still not working for me. Did you do anything to fix it?

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I did not do anything. I opened the app and it start to update with a small patch.

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this STILL hasnt been fixed over a week since it started! come on blizzard this is terrible customer service!!!

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Change the App version from Beta to Standard or vice versa. Worked for me.