Vortex Not Liking Directory Junctions

[Verdigo]

Vortex 0.17.11

 

Skyrim Special Edition

 

88 Mods

 

Windows 10 Pro Version 10.0.17134.765

 

I moved the Skyrim folder to my C: drive which is an SSD. I created a Directory Junction with command prompt. Immediately Vortext started complaining about not being ale to deploy mods. All the mods in my plugins tab disappeared. Vortex somehow knows my game is on my C: drive and not on the same drive as the downloads folder. It even overwrote my loadorder file to show no mods loaded.

 

Vortex should treat a Directory Junction no different than any other game folder.

 

How do I get it to function correctly?

[AugustaCalidia]

Vortex 0.17.11

 

Skyrim Special Edition

 

88 Mods

 

Windows 10 Pro Version 10.0.17134.765

 

I moved the Skyrim folder to my C: drive which is an SSD. I created a Directory Junction with command prompt. Immediately Vortext started complaining about not being ale to deploy mods. All the mods in my plugins tab disappeared. Vortex somehow knows my game is on my C: drive and not on the same drive as the downloads folder. It even overwrote my loadorder file to show no mods loaded.

 

Vortex should treat a Directory Junction no different than any other game folder.

 

How do I get it to function correctly?

 

Where is your Mod Staging Folder?

[Verdigo]

Staging folder is in F:\Vortex Mods\skyrimse

 

SSE is on my C: drive but I have a directory junction at F:\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition

which points to C:\Skyrim Special Edition which is my SSD.

 

Somehow Vortex knows it's a directory junction and isn't having any of it.

Edited May 19, 2019 by Verdigo

[rmm200]

Tannin commented once on directory junctions.

He may need to stop back in and address this. I think it was a current limitation.

And I really don't know if hard links work across junctions. If they don't - he can't fix it.

[AugustaCalidia]

Staging folder is in F:\Vortex Mods\skyrimse

 

SSE is on my C: drive but I have a directory junction at F:\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition

which points to C:\Skyrim Special Edition which is my SSD.

 

Somehow Vortex knows it's a directory junction and isn't having any of it.

 

Would you have a problem eliminating junctions and putting both your game and its Mod Staging Folder on the same drive partition? The few "junction" attempts that I've seen in this forum did not work out.

[HadToRegister]

Just had a support question of somebody wondering why Vortex only supported 10 games.
Turns out they were using a Directory Junction.
Once they use and actual proper folder the other 30 something games showed up.

[AugustaCalidia]

HTR, thanks for the information. That was one of the support questions I alluded to in my previous post, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it.

[Verdigo]

I previously had both in the same drive partition. Everything was working fine till I moved it and tried to use a directory junction. I'm also not using hardlinks. I'm using the option that physically moves all the mod files. I probably should've mentioned that.

[Tannin42]

This is not about Vortex not liking Junction Points. The limitation that hard-links can be created only within one drive is not something we impose, it's a technical limitation of the filesystem that can't be worked around.

 

The staging folder has to be on the same filesystem partition as the game - no matter what. Whether you access that partition through drive letter c: or d: makes no difference.

You can use junction points to organize your folder structure but not to work around system limitations.

 

There is another issue with junction points where if Vortex itself (the application folder containing the Vortex.exe and so on) is accessed via a junction point, many extensions may not load. That is a bug in electron or node (software backends we use) that may be fixed in some future version or not, we have no control over that.

[rmm200]

If that information is not in the Wiki - can we get it there?