Guild Wars 2

So today at morning I logged in with no problems, I got my daily chest run around the grove etc. but later on in the afternoon i tried to log in again and there was a 17 thousand file patch so i proceeded patching until my sister told me there wasnt any patch today and she logged in just fine. So i decided to delete my folder and copy my sister’s gw2 folder (thats what we did when our friend bought an account and it went flawless) but even after i copied her file when i ran it there it is again the 17k file patch, I tried restarting, repairing gw2, and after it didnt work I copied my friends file but to no avail. I just got a new copy from my friend and still like that. Can anyone help me please?

Make sure the gw2.exe you start is the same one that is located in the folder
where your gw2.dat is located.
Also don’t put games in general under the “program files” folder.

I do start the app inside the folder where the .dat is also i deleted my old one when I copied my sister’s and my friend’s folder so theres no possibility of overlap. Here is the location of my gw2 folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2
i dont think im doing anything wrong thats why I started asking here in the forums hoping for somebody to know what the problem actually is

Well they did push a patch out today. Are you in the Beta as mine only had 1700 files to download.

Behellagh.1468:

Well they did push a patch out today. Are you in the Beta as mine only had 1700 files to download.

no I was not in the beta and its not just 1.7k for me its 17k…

Ok I just trued running it just now and it bumped up to 19k files seems like the 1.7k you mentioned just added to it wtf is happening.

BOAsnake.7401:

Here is the location of my gw2 folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2

Beldin.5498:

Make sure the gw2.exe you start is the same one that is located in the folder
where your gw2.dat is located.
Also don’t put games in general under the “program files” folder.

Make a folder like c:\games\gw2 and move the game there. The security rights
in Program Files are often very strange and my problems.

I’m having the same problem and putting my Gw2 folder outside of Program Files didn’t fix the problem

Beldin.5498:

Make sure the gw2.exe you start is the same one that is located in the folder
where your gw2.dat is located.
Also don’t put games in general under the “program files” folder.

I did just that and still nothing happened… btw thanks for replying guys. ill just patch it and see what happens. Ill reply here if that fixed it for future players who might get the same problem.

How big is your gw2.dat btw. ? And have you made a search on your disk if there
is maybe another gw2.dat anywhere ?

Mine’s at 22,175,005 KB. There’s no gw2.dat anywhere else since I just did a clean install on Windows 10 today. The problem’s been up before that though.

farfalle.5431:

Mine’s at 22,175,005 KB. There’s no gw2.dat anywhere else since I just did a clean install on Windows 10 today. The problem’s been up before that though.

Check the rights on your folder, and give maybe full access to everyone if you see
the administrator symbol before delete and rename in the context menu.

no theres no other .dat and i actually searched for any “gw2” “guild wars 2” “guild wars” file and nothing except the guild wars 2 folder and my copy of guild wars 1.

I patched it and now it works fine. So for those having the same problem just patch the 17k file and you’re good.