Batch File clearing Cache for _NPCscan

By 269607 Updated: 2011/10/13

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Comment by Deadi

My hero.

Comment by hameshy

Very simple and useful.

Comment by 180865

After I started using NPCScan I quickly made a .bat file for myself too, though it's a lot simpler :
DEL "E:\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\frFR\creaturecache.wdb"
"E:\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe"
That's all that's needed !

Comment by 223290

@ECHO OFF has nothing to do with the file looping. What it does is it makes your batch file commands hidden in the command prompt screen. If you didn't type it in at the beginning, your command prompt would look similar to this when running your batch file:

PAUSE
DEL "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enUS\creaturecache.wdb"
PAUSE
CALL "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe"
EXIT

It's simply for aesthetics. It hides the commands that are being run, but it still lets the commands spit out their results.

ECHO is also used to print text on the screen.
Here's another example to understand better:

If in the batch file I type in the following:

ECHO Hello World
DEL "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enUS\creaturecache.wdb"
EXIT

What I will see when running the batch file is:

ECHO Hello World
DEL "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enUS\creaturecache.wdb"
EXIT

But if I was to add @ECHO OFF at the top, before "ECHO Hello World", this is all that I will see when running the batch file:

Hello World

So the commands being run are hidden, even the ECHO command that is used to print text on the screen. The results of the command are not hidden, which is why we still see "Hello World" in the command prompt screen. If for example the creaturecache.wdb file was already deleted, you would also see a file not found error, without seeing the delete command that was issued.

Comment by Naketus

Here is maybe best code to do this:

@ECHO OFF
DEL "D:\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enGB\creaturecache.wdb"
START "" "D:\World of Warcraft\Wow-64.exe"
EXIT

You barely don't even see command line window when cache is already deleted and game has started.

Comment by 1046309

Has anyone figured out how to make a working batch file for windows 8?

I have tried to correct the file paths already with no success.

Comment by BrokeBastid

Use for Windows 7 64 bit OS:

@ECHO OFF
DEL "C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enUS\creaturecache.wdb"
DEL "C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enUS\npccache.wdb"
CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\World of Warcraft Launcher.exe"
EXIT

Deletes both the creature and the npc cache

Comment by khader91

im lost (noob lol) so does this refresh the cache without me having to leave the game?

Comment by 947813

using win 7 and wow is saved in its default location
this is how my bat file looks
works fine every time very simple
with the quotation marks as they are above the files may not be located
so i use them only in files containing spaces as intended

del C:\"Program Files (x86)"\"World of Warcraft"\Cache\WDB\enUS\creaturecache.wdb
del C:\"Program Files (x86)"\"World of Warcraft"\Cache\WDB\enUS\npccache.wdb
start C:\"Program Files (x86)"\"World of Warcraft"\"World of Warcraft Launcher.exe"

Comment by lylyt

Hello everyone, I am using two cmd file. Now I tell you why.
The first deletes the cache as shown above.

Second - copies and archives all addons and moving the screenshots in a separate directory.

First file

@echo off
RD /S /Q "C:\Games\World of Warcraft\Cache"
pause

Second file

@echo off

MOVE /y "C:\Games\World of Warcraft\Screenshots\*.*" "X:\Documents\WOWArj\scr\"

start /b "C:\Program Files\WinRAR\Rar.exe" a X:\Documents\WOWArj\Addons_Archive_%DATE%.rar "C:\Games\World of Warcraft\interface" "C:\Games\World of Warcraft\WTF"

pause

Далее по русски: next in Russian:

Всем привет, я использую два cmd файла. Сейчас я расскажу почему.
Первый удаляет кеш как это показано выше.
Второй - копирует и архивирует все addons и переносит скриншоты в отдельную директорию. Для него необходим win rar (rar.exe)!

Первый файл.

@echo off
RD /S /Q "C:\Games\World of Warcraft\Cache"
pause

Второй файл.

Batch File clearing Cache for _NPCscan

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