How to backup your files(AION)

How to backup your game

I found this out when I realized the game is more than 5GB and it would take forever to download. A few friends of mine all have pre-ordered the game, and we figured why download the game more than once that’s a lot of bandwidth wasted. So we decided that one of us will download the game and we’ll just copy and install it.
Here is How:

* – First copy the entire NCSoft Folder. It should have two folders in it Launcher and Aion. If you have other NCSoft games like Lineage 2 or Guildwars, I would imagine they would be in it too leave them alone. Now the game is pretty big you can either do what I did which is to use a 30GB IPod video to upload the files or use a burnable dual-layer DVD which can hold about 8GB of data. Now your game is backup.
* – To reinstall the game in the future all you have to do is copy and paste the entire NCSoft Folder to any where you like on your computer by default it’s (C:\Program Files\ NCSoft\) but you can put it anywhere you like.
* – Once the entire folder has been copied to your computer go to the folder NCSoft->Launcher and run the launcher.
* – Now the launcher does not recognize the game as installed; here is what you do.
1. Click on the little arrow on the aion tab
2. Click properties and a new window is going to popup called Aion Properties.
3. Under Install Locations click browse.
4. Find the Aion.bin which should be under (yourpath\NCSoft\Aion\bin32\AION.bin) *youpath is where you put your ncsoft folder!
5. Click Open then click OK under aion properties window.
6. Finally under the little arrow again click Repair (Consistency Check) it should take about 10-15min depending on your computer speed. Now you can either run the game or check for any new updates!!

And that’s all, enjoy the game and have fun!