Automate your cache cleaning for NPCScan - the lazy way

[~Z~]

Something even better.

1- Goto \World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enGB
2- Delete your "creaturecache.wdb".
3- Create a "New Text Document.txt" file in the same folder and rename it to "creaturecache.wdb".
4- Right click on the new "creaturecache.wdb" click Properties and Tick the "Read-Only" Press OK.

This will prevent WoW to save any new creatures to "creaturecache.wdb".

[TehVoyager]

One quick note about the read only method: any time the game is patched, the Creaturecache will have its read only status removed. so you will have to set that back up after patch drops.

as for bat files, there's a MUCH better way to go about this. Say you want to camp Krol the blade or Scritch. are you really going to reset your computer every time you want to reset the creature cache? or delete it manually? what's the point of the automation then?

a Better Solution: Make a bat file in wows Directory. name it whatever you want. use IT for your launch short cuts.

Make your bat file look like this

@echo off
del "E:\World of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enUS\creaturecache.wdb"
"E:\World of Warcraft\World of Warcraft Launcher.exe"
exit

So what you'll see with this code is a Flicker on screen of the Batch file opening, deleting the file and closing a fraction of a second later, followed by wow doing its usual thing.

[nazgul111]

Just restart World of Warcraft and fine. +5 for you Nazgul.

thanks for the rep m8, altho i found it on the web myself so not sure if i deserve it since i did not found the method myself and rather just posted what already has been posted somewhere else, that was either wowhead, mmo-champion or curse, not sure

[vv3]

I've just returned to WoW and previously I've used the method described by Nazgul, worked like a charm. But now, sadly, the read only property vanishes each time - anybody experiencing that? I've tried that on two PCs to be sure...