Installing onto an external harddrive

Installing onto an external harddrive

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Posted by: Colton.8942

Colton.8942

I’ve tried this before and it gets to about 16% before there is an error every single time I try. Is there any way to install and download Guild Wars 2 on my external HDD? It works just fine with Diablo 3 and WoW. I’m not sure what the problem is.

Installing onto an external harddrive

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Posted by: FlamingFoxx.1305

FlamingFoxx.1305

What about if you install it onto your internal hard drive then copy the app across?
The only reason I can think it may not be working is because the GW2 app doesn’t JUST use data from inside the .app to run, it relies on information stored in Application Support to run and it’s possible that it simply doesn’t know how to handle the paths when it’s on an external HD. – Cider (and Wine) sort of spoofs itself into believing that a certain part of your hard drive is the C: drive that it would use on Windows, so yeah maybe that screws something up :S?

Installing onto an external harddrive

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Posted by: Seeder.6981

Seeder.6981

I installed to an external firewire drive (only solution for my ageing MBP)… works fine!