I successfully downloaded/installed Star Wars: The Old Republic (SW-TOR) and ran it. But, I uninstalled it to try to fix something else. Before I uninstalled it, I made a backup of most of the files in another directory.
Within a day (i.e. no additional release patch between first and second installs), I decided to re-install it with the web installer again. I restored the files I had to the directory to which I installed it, and then ran the client.
It appears that I didn't back up a few essential files because the launcher wants to re-download everything. Unfortunately, I can't select the "Repair" option in the Launcher Settings, either, because it doesn't acknowledge that I've completed a patch download.
Mainly, I want to know how to download only the files I would need.
I would think that the Launcher would detect that I have all of the files for the Assets, Movies, and swtor directories, which constitute over 99% of all of the data I need. But, it doesn't detect this, which leads me to believe that a "Repair" would fix this, except I can't run it.
If indeed I have no other option outside of a Repair, how to I trick the Launcher to enable the Repair option?
FixLauncher.exe only fixes the Launcher, but not the full repair.
Best Answer
It appears that, without the corresponding
.versionfiles*, you can't force the Launcher to repair the game files. Since I had not saved any.versionfiles, I could not do anything but re-download the entire game client.However, as Chris mentioned in the question comments, if I could have accessed anybody's copy of these files (about 50 kB in total), I could have skipped the full download.
* - at the time of answer, the important version files (the others download very quickly) are:
assets_swtor_main.versionassets_swtor_[language]_[culture].version([language]and[culture]are language/culture identifiers, e.g.assets_swtor_en_us.versionfor en-US)movies_[language]_[culture].versionretailclient_swtor.versionA Base64 (decoder) string of a ZIP file containing the
assets_swtor_main.versionandretailclient_swtor.versionfiles from 1.3.4 (2012-07-24):