Help! My Launcher didn't update

And when I try to log in, I get this!

http://i.imgur.com/bP8pc0x.png?1

Did you try all those things listed

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Clear your internet history and cache and try it again.. I doubt you have a proxy server setting (ask the person who runs the internet in your house..if at a public place then skip). If worse comes t worse a full reinstall will most likely do the trick (but take forever :( )

I have never had this problem. I am freaking out.

If tried deleting temp files. I don't know how to do the 2nd thing. If I were to reinstall, do I need to delete the game first? Will I lose all my hotbars and things/.

Restart your computer, run launcher as administrator.

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Originally Posted by JillyBean

If tried deleting temp files. I don't know how to do the 2nd thing. If I were to reinstall, do I need to delete the game first? Will I lose all my hotbars and things/.

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Your hotbars, inventory sort, macros, and similar things are stored in a folder that is located by default at:
C:\Users\<User Name>\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn

The folders that start with FFXIV_CHR... have the information in them, there's one for each character. You can copy those to save your info.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

Restart your computer, run launcher as administrator.

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This has fixed that issue for me every time I have run into it.

I've read on another site if you're having that issue to go to your documents/My games/FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn and open FFXIV Boot

Make sure 'BootVersionCheckMode' is set to 1, save and restart the Launcher, and then it will work. I'll cross my fingers that you won't have to reinstall everything.

I had this issue, and can confirm Tirissas advice worked. Cheers.

Found this solution from a forum post way back, worked for me (first step).

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Some things that can solve the problem:
1. Uncheck the case "Read Only" in the Properties of your Square-Enix and My Games/Final Fantasy XIV: ARR folders
2. Run as administrator
3. Use compatiblity mode to XP.

That worked for me last time I had this problem. But that's still a shame we have to go through this to update every time, and since the beginning of beta tests.

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http://i.imgur.com/CJ6yNVS.png?1

This is what my folder looks like. When I try to open the top item (the only thing that says Boot in it) it won't open. What am I looking for?

Open the FFXIV_BOOT.cfg with notepad or wordpad, etc.

Right-clicking the file should give you an option for Open with... and if a standard text editing program isn't already in the list chose More Options, and pick any normal text editor you see there---if none are listed then you click to search for one and then drill down to one. If you browse to the Windows folder, you should find notepad towards the end of the list.

I'm not exactly sure because I didn't have the issue myself, but the last time I had to edit a .cfg file for WoW, I think it was right-click on it and open in Notepad. If that doesn't work either, hopefully someone who knows comes along to save the day :)

Post #223 on this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1978491

Fixes the issue you are having. I just had to do this myself.

Basically, the game didn't automatically download the new launcher for you. Setting BootVersionCheckMode = 1, will force it to download the new launcher so you can get the update.

Open the file with Notepad.

Mines failed 3 times now for a different reason entirely, which it doesn't even say it just says it failed and closes.

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Originally Posted by Tirissa

I've read on another site if you're having that issue to go to your documents/My games/FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn and open FFXIV Boot

Make sure 'BootVersionCheckMode' is set to 1, save and restart the Launcher, and then it will work. I'll cross my fingers that you won't have to reinstall everything.

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I was having this same issue and this is what worked for me.

OMG you guys. I am all downloaded now. The run launcher in admin worked. THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH! I tried it once and it didn't help. But after hunting through my folders and posting the above pic - I went ahead and tried it again. THANK YOU, MUCH LOVE!!

I'm glad you were able to download! :D

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Originally Posted by UnstablePersonality

Mines failed 3 times now for a different reason entirely, which it doesn't even say it just says it failed and closes.

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I did have 2-3 fails during the dl which made me panic all over again. Also my dl speed was crazy low (I have like 80mbps) so I did a /flushdns and restarted it. It finished in about 15 mins once I did that (with no additional error failures)

Mines failed 10 times now.

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Originally Posted by Tirissa

I've read on another site if you're having that issue to go to your documents/My games/FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn and open FFXIV Boot

Make sure 'BootVersionCheckMode' is set to 1, save and restart the Launcher, and then it will work. I'll cross my fingers that you won't have to reinstall everything.

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This helped me as well; thanks a lot!

mine failed as well several times, just restarted it again. this is pretty weird and annoying at the same time.

It's shit like this that I hate Windows so much... "But it's not Windows' fault." The hell it ain't. Windows would shoot it's own foot if you let it.