Guild Wars 2

Hello,
I was downloading the newest patch today everything was running fine until my computer turned off for no reason. Once i turned it back on i relacunched guild wars 2 but this time it was downloading a patch with 210 000 files i thaught it was a bug so i left it. Once i came back 2 to 3 hours later the upate got to 810mbs(3%) of the total download so I closed the client. I checked my Gw2 folder and its size is 14.3 gb.
I tried to repair but had no luck it would just go back to downloading the 210 000 files.
Can anyone please help me cause this is really annoying.
Thank you.

how did you do the repair? Did you do it by making a copy of the launch icon, going to properties, then adding -repair at the end of the .exe, then double clicking it to launch the repair file program?

Sorry I ask this only because this is the first game where I had to actually go in and change the file name to make repair activate.

Yes that is exactly what i did and it didin’t work

this a tech question in the wrong forum.

uninstall the game completely then reinstall it and download the patch.

14 gb worth of downloading on a 100 kbps internet speed isn’t very ethical.
Isn’t theire any other way of fixing this ?

Unfortunately, you may be stuck. GW2 keeps all of it’s data files in one huge library file, GW2.DAT. If that file got corrupted (or the game thinks the file got corrupted) when your computer shut down unexpectedly, the game is going to have to either verify that the contents of the file are not corrupted and/or download new versions of the data files to replace the corrupted ones – or the entire corrupted library file, if the contents can no longer be read.

If you have a copy of the GW2.DAT file, you can try replacing the “corrupted one” with the backup copy and see what happens. It may only require you to download all the files/updates that have changed since you made the backup copy.

Isn’t there no way for the client to find the corrupted file and fix just that specific file ?

Doesn’t anyone have a fix for this ? If one file is corrupted i have to re download the whole thing ?

As Jayne said, you can try adding the “-repair” switch to the command line in the shortcut to see if that will take care of the problem. That is supposed to scan the library for corrupted data and fix anything it finds.