simsrw73 Posted March 6, 2018 Author Share Posted March 6, 2018 Same issue as @zhesam. Saw release on github and foolishly decided to update. All my F4 mods were wiped clean. Downloaded and installed ones. Also used custom location installer. Are they actually deleted from disk or Vortex looking in the wrong place? Where were your Download and Mod directories? Within the Vortex folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightliss Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Deleted from disk as far as I can see. They were inside Vortex install dir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhesam Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Same issue as @zhesam. Saw release on github and foolishly decided to update. All my F4 mods were wiped clean. Downloaded and installed ones. Also used custom location installer.Seems "wipemods" bug related to custom installer, it remains only to be glad that my game did not go further then Sanctuary, since basically I was playing with Vortex and other modding utilities from the public release of Vortex and did not delve into the gameplay yet. Depresses just have to redownload all the 100+ modes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sopmac45 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Well, I installed Vortex to the default location C:\ProgramFiles (x86) so I guess I will not have any trouble, but just in case, I won't update till later. This need to be fixed as soon as possible by the developer team. Hope is very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightliss Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Seems "wipemods" bug related to custom installer, it remains only to be glad that my game did not go further then Sanctuary, since basically I was playing with Vortex and other modding utilities from the public release of Vortex and did not delve into the gameplay yet. Depresses just have to redownload all the 100+ modes Hah, I lost 5 days. According to the active profile I had 264 mods installed, not to mention merging and cleaning esps :/ I knew Vortex is in alpha but I really didn't expect it to wipe everything just like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sopmac45 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Hi guys, Do you know where is the new Vortex update page please ? Version available in the normal page said different version. Where is the "beta channel" atm mentioned by Tanin ? Thanks ... :cool: NOTES : Solved. Inside Vortex where you choose Stable ... drop down the arrow and Beta is listed .... ... so, with this update are we officially passing from Alpha to Beta stage ? I saw a lot of changes in the new version but I know there are hundreds requested by all of us and probably more versions and updates will happen. :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 You put your mods into the Vortex install directory? And you thought that was a good idea?The Vortex install directory is for the Vortex application files only. It gets replaced entirely on update, that is not a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightliss Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 I wish I knew that before. MO downloaded mods and extracted them inside install dir. So yes, I thought it was good idea. I know Vortex is not MO, but still I didn't see any warning regarding mod dir location. If there was one then I didn't notice, my apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 This problem can only happen if you either used the custom installer (which says in the description: "Please note: Use only if you know what you're doing. We can't promise uninstall or future updates will work. We will not provide support for permission problems.")or if you run Vortex as administrator or manually changed file permissions to even be able to place the mods/downloads in c:\program files\..., both of which are also essentially you saying "I know what I'm doing". With the suggested way of installing Vortex you wouldn't have been able to set it up like this because the file permissions wouldn't have allowed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 I wish I knew that before. MO downloaded mods and extracted them inside install dir. So yes, I thought it was good idea. I know Vortex is not MO, but still I didn't see any warning regarding mod dir location. If there was one then I didn't notice, my apologies. Storing mods, programs, zip files, documents etc INSIDE another Program's directory has been a no-no from the DOS days, and is going to inevitably lead to accidental data loss. The best setup with the most options, is you should have a directory devoted to mods D:\Mods (or wherever) with sub folders for the games, then whatever Mod Manager you use can be directed to that directory.My setup I have the one central MOD folder, and all the different game subfolders I.E. D:\Mods\SkyRim SE, D:\Mods\Morrowind, D:\Mods\Oblivion, D:\Mods\Fallout 3 etc etcNow I have one central location where I know all of the game mods and I can direct all of the mod managers to their specific game director.Use Vortex for Fallout 3? Set your BASE folder or whatever it's called in Vortex to D:\Mods\Fallout 3 Use Wrye for Oblivion? Set the folder in Wrye for D:\Mods\OblivionUse NMM for Fallout 4? Set the mod folder for D:\Mods\Fallout 4 With a separate MOD directory, your mods will always be safe, no matter which Mod managers you install/uninstall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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