World Editor Import Failure

[hi1]

With the recent update of Wc3, my world editor is now preventing me from importing any files. The error message is "Import failed: Cannot copy file to (Location of my files for import)." Has anyone encountered this issue? Is there any way to work around it?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try saving in a folder that your user account has write permission for and is different from the folder the imports are coming from. If still does not work, try turning off anti-virus.

Basically it cannot write the imported files to temporary files when trying to create the map MPQ archive.

 

[hi1]

Hm..it still isn't working for me. My PC user account has full administrative access to everything, not sure why it isn't allowing me to import. I tried turning off anti-virus, didn't change anything either. I was able to import files yesterday, but after today's update, it suddenly stopped working :/.

 

[Kaijyuu]

I'm getting this error as well. Admin privileges don't help. Will experiment a bit to see if I can find a cause/workaround.

(really wish they would of put this out on a ptr first...)

 

[Shaeam]

Try saving in a folder that your user account has write permission for and is different from the folder the imports are coming from. If still does not work, try turning off anti-virus.

Basically it cannot write the imported files to temporary files when trying to create the map MPQ archive.

I don't use intrusive Anti-Virus programs, I've also tried importing from different folders. It's not either of those two problems; It's simply the update broke things it would seem. Pretty insignificant things (to Blizzard) so hopefully they catch wind of this problem soon; I don't think they'd actually catch it if they didn't hear about it.

 

[Tommi Gustafsson]

I have the same problem now as well.

 

[SerenityInFire]

Does anybody know a way around this? I'm getting the same problem too.

 

[Dr Super Good]

My PC user account has full administrative access to everything

No it does not. Your user account can run stuff in administrative mode but still will run everything by default in user mode. This is for security reasons as one wants to run stuff in administrative mode as little as possible.

My reply above was made being unaware that there was a new patch. Since they changed the executable structures and paths, try reinstalling the game.

 

[A]mun]

I suggest to get a backup version running for JNGP/default editor, like the 1.27 from bnet where you registered your game.

At this point blizz is really messing with the game, who knows what breaks next.

On topic: no idea how to fix imports, i couldn't get it to work by using different paths.

 

[Wark]

I am having this problem too. Luckily, I have the previous version of wc3 on a flash disk for importing purposes now.

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

@MindWorX updated WEX so imports would work on the new version. SharpCraft World Editor Extended Bundle

You can use the SharpCraft / WEX editor while Blizzard is working on a fix to the issue.

 

[Dr Super Good]

So why are imports not working?

 

[ChinChopperChinChopper!(]

Mine too. Just because I wanted to make a map. :/

 

[Vel (Tien-Yun) Wu]

I can verify that per 1.28.3's patching the import function is toasted. However~

@MindWorX updated WEX so imports would work on the new version. SharpCraft World Editor Extended Bundle

You can use the SharpCraft / WEX editor while Blizzard is working on a fix to the issue.

This is working as intended! Just need to specify the exe path for WEX the first time you use it.
And luckily, the app automatically navigates to the WC3 installation folder, so we just need to choose the World Editor.exe and it'll fit in nicely.

Thanks for sharing.