"Reinstalling" CoH


Aggelakis

 

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Just recently upgraded my computer and reinstalled Windows 7. However, all of my games are on a separate hard drive so that I don't have to fully reinstall them every time I do this. In the past I would simply point the launcher at the appropriate folder and it would verify the files and I was good to go.

However, with the new NCsoft launcher, when I try to do that it warns me that: "The chosen folder is not empty. If you continue, files in this folder might be overwritten or deleted by this process." Which would be a real shame, not only for the time investment of downloading and reinstalling them game, but also because I have various keybind files and Mid's and screenshot folders in there (which I can easily move, of course).

I don't remember getting that message or a similar one in the past, although I could be mistaken. I was wondering if this will just verify files as in the past or if it will actually just overwrite everything. Any help is greatly appreciated.


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Current: Vitriolic - 42 Bots/Poison MM, Aseity - 38 DB/WP Scrapper, Tai Shar - 42 Earth/Storm

 

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Here's what you do, path given is just for example's sake.

Say it's R:\CityOfHeroes

  1. Rename to R:\CityOfHeroesOld
  2. Run the launcher and install to R:\CityOfHeroes
  3. Once the launcher starts trying to download, kill the process. Shut down the launcher.
  4. Delete R:\CityOfHeroes
  5. Rename R:\CityOfHeroesOld to R:\CityOfHeroes
  6. Run the launcher again and grab recent updates. DONE!



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Awesome. Worked perfectly. Thank you very much.


50s: Anaxagoras - En/En/For Blaster, Vicious Kittie - Claws/SR Scrapper, Rad. Therapy - Emp/Rad/For Defender, Anaximander - En/En/Mu Brute, Marble Vanguard - Stone/EM Tanker
Current: Vitriolic - 42 Bots/Poison MM, Aseity - 38 DB/WP Scrapper, Tai Shar - 42 Earth/Storm

 

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Originally Posted by Anaxagoras View Post
Awesome. Worked perfectly. Thank you very much.

That'll be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.37 inf.



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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
That'll be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.37 inf.
We don't have partial infs! He owes you NOSSINK!


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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
We don't have partial infs! He owes you NOSSINK!

I'll take out trade in Empyrean Merits!



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