permissions for world of warcraft folder keep locking up?

[Arminius]

every time I run the wow launcher.exe under wine. the whole world of warcraft folder permissions lock up, I click on properties, then under permissions folder access for the owner is blank, I change it to create and delete files, and this temporarily solves the problem

but next time I run launcher.exe the permissions go back to being blank.

I don't know how this started? how do I solve it?

[Dekafox]

The latest patch last night/today was a patch to the tools, including Launcher.exe. I've been told running under Crossover doesn't have the issue, but right now anyone who tries running the current Launcher under wine and as their user will lose perms on the folder. Supposedly if you run it as root it works fine, but I'm wary of running anything, especially anything in wine, as root.

Gogo Blizz.

I just added two lines for now to my launching script so after the launcher exits it restores the perms and launches Wow.exe as a workaround. This way I'll at least know if another patch comes out, even if it may not be able to patch initially because of this permissions issue.

[Arminius]

ok, I think I understood half of that,
so what should I do?

[marwade]

I just added two lines for now to my launching script so after the launcher exits it restores the perms and launches Wow.exe as a workaround. This way I'll at least know if another patch comes out, even if it may not be able to patch initially because of this permissions issue.

LOL I understood maybe one-third of that. Maybe I should start out with half a coffee bean I'm such a noob at the innerwork of computers. I know there's a permissions issue, and how to change permission so at least the launcher window pops up, but when it clicks to launch the wow application it pulls a Houdini.

What two lines did you add? And where? And you were able to play?! I'll try the two lines! Just tell me how. And baby step me please.

[GJLenon]

Cancel that, lemme fiddle and I'll post a line that works.

[marwade]

GL, you're a hoot. Thank you for the chuckle! I had just posted a query as to which directory to be in and whatnot to use that command line when I saw your edit. I look forward to reading whatever resolution you come up with for this latest Blizzblooper.

Guess it's not so much their blooper as maybe an oversight. I mean windows doesn't use permissions? So maybe whoever wrote that patch just didn't think about how it would affect wine users?

Eh.

[GJLenon]

Alright, this is probably not the best method, but it is what I used.

Step 1: Creating a shell script
Open gedit (Applications/Accessories)

In gedit, type:

#!/bin/bash
clear
wine "/home/<user>/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/wow.exe";
chmod 755 "/home/<user>/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/" -R

Obviously change the <user> to your user name and modify the directories as needed.

Then save the file as wow.

Step 2:Accessing the Script
Open a Terminal (Applications/Accessories).

Type in chmod 755 ./wow

This will allow you to access the script you just created.

Close the Terminal.

Step 3:Modifying the Panel
Right click on your World of Warcraft icon on the panel, and go to Properties.

Delete what it has under the Command and replace it with:

./wow

Now close out of the properties.

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That should work, again, not the most stream-lined, but it works for me.

[Raptorial]

Deleting My Previous Message: Problem Solved. Thanks all!

[marwade]

Alright, this is probably not the best method, but it is what I used . . . it works for me.

It worked for me too. =D>

I did need to open wow directly and choose to bypass the launcher. Even with the new script, the launcher window still mucks up the works and shifts permissions again. So back to the folder, change permissions, unlocked it, launched wow.exe, unchecked the launcher, and then clicked the icon again. SUCCESS!

[Mr. Hibba]

I want to thank you guys for this thread. Before I saw this, I thought that my installing kubuntu-desktop in Ubuntu was causing the trouble (I opened the WoW launcher right after installing the kubuntu package.... right on patch day, it looks like lol. Made me think something was up with Kubuntu). I'll have to try running the game from the WoW.exe instead of the launcher and see if that works.

Mr. Hibba.