Wow retail Size In GB

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So yesteday i got myself a samsung 990 pro 4 tb, well actuall i pruchased 3 of them my motherboard is only gen 4 compatible.

So i decided to move world of warcraft retail from my c driver to d drive, i then checked the size before uninstalling it and it was somewhere between 131-135 Gb.

I then reinstalled it to my d drive, and it told me the size was to be 121 Gb, but it was only downloading 107,73 Gb and when it had finished it was only 104 Gb.

Is that normal for a fresh install without addons to be 104 Gb when the old one was almost 135 Gb?

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Yes, old installation likely had all kinds of cache files (some which can be deleted to reduce space use).

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Ok, so yours is also 104 when downloaded and installed fresh?

Also did you notive how much it said the game should be in size when going thought where it should be installed? like 121 Gb To be downloaded and when downloading down to 107.73 Gb?

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I have never paid that much attention to it. My installation is not fresh and I am not going to reinstall it to just find out that.

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Ok, fair enough :slight_smile:

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U can check the wow\data\indices folder. It can get very huge size.

This folder contain many trash. My folder is 60GB at the moment. I will erase files what older than 2-3 weeks.

Grelier: u can clean up this folder too if u have old installation.

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You can reduce size on the spot by going into DATA and deleting contents of CONFIG and INDICES. The game will redownload whatever it needs again next time you relaunch. There’s a lot of trash and other files which you collect while playing, but because the client streams content none of it is considered a mandatory pre-load in order to play.

You can expect the smallest main folder size to be 103+2 from the future patch which has already begun distribution.

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