Forced patch downloads, any suggestions?

[thescrub]

Well, earlier today my AVG figured that my WOW launcher was a severe security threat and asked me if I would like to quarantine it. I allowed, like a fool (thinking it wouldn't destroy my launcher but just a small issue) and long story short I had to reinstall WOW. Before I did this I moved my patches, WTF folder, Cache, and interface to a seperate location. After I completed installing I moved the patches and so on back to the original wow folder but when i launch wow it still downloads patches (with an absolutely horrific internet connection).

Anyone have any suggestions on how to skip the downloads and use the patches i already suffered through once for a noob like me?

[Knuffelbert]

Well, prior to the streaming launcher patches were downloaded as executables. But now it doesn't seem to anymore (and that's at least 9 GB)

I wonder if the repair tool would have worked. But too late for that now. If your internet connection is extremely sucky, I would copy the World of Warcraft folder from a friend to an external hard drive or download it at work (if conditions permit).

[thescrub]

I actually did try the repair tool and it ended with a message "the launcher could not be repaired, please reinstall wow" which led me to do that in the first place lol.
I will probably end up copying that to an external like you said but can't help to think why would that work and my original folders not? meh

[vesseblah]

Probably the idiot AVG continues to see the launcher as a virus which caused the repair tool to fail. If it's a false positive, it's not gonna go away until AVG is patched or you turn it off/tell it that wow is safe.

[chaud]

You need to save your Data folder, as that is where all of the "patches" go now.