Backing up Mod Installation Using Vortex for an OS Reinstall?

[RadoGamer]

My question is not answered anywhere in the stickies or wiki that I could find.

 

I'm presently moving towards reinstalling my Windows 10 Pro and this is going to be a huge process because I have so much on my system.

 

One of the things I'm fortunate with is my games, mods and Vortex and it's folders are on a separate internal drive so they will remain intact. My question is, is it possible to create a Vortex Profile and use it to reinstall my mods after I get Steam reinstalled and pointed to my games?

 

Or, am i making it too complicated, and is there an easier way to do what I'm needing to do?

 

When you create a profile where is it saved and how?

 

Anyhow you get the gist of my situation, any advise or information would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

John

Edited July 3, 2020 by RadoGamer

[HadToRegister]

It's been answered several times in these forums though.

You need to back up your C:\users\<YOURNAME>\appdata\roaming\Vortex folder

That's where the important info is stored

[RadoGamer]

It's been answered several times in these forums though.

 

You need to back up your C:\users\<YOURNAME>\appdata\roaming\Vortex folder

 

That's where the important info is stored

 

 

Thank you very much, I appreciate the response, My system bricked during a system restore it hung up in the registry apparently a common issue with Win10 Pro, so I reinstalled a lot sooner than I expected, my drive was useless because the boot loader was corrupted so the installation media couldn't use it. So I had to take my spare drive and empty it out and use that, thankfully it worked and the drive with the games and vortex is fine. I placed my original drive in the external case and with some effort was able to access the data so this information you gave me is very useful. Thanks again and I hope you have a wonderful weekend and week.

 

J

[RadoGamer]

Well it worked but not without some issues although the move went well and Vortex saw all my mods and with a tweak on location folders there were no major problems, the only thing I noticed was even though Vortex maintained the activated state of my mods, when I went to the plugin page all my plugins were in a deactivated state. So I simply reactivated them manually and things worked with out a hitch.

 

Thanks again.

Edited July 6, 2020 by RadoGamer

[HadToRegister]

Well it worked but not without some issues although the move went well and Vortex saw all my mods and with a tweak on location folders there were no major problems, the only thing I noticed was even though Vortex maintained the activated state of my mods, when I went to the plugin page all my plugins were in a deactivated state. So I simply reactivated them manually and things worked with out a hitch.

 

Thanks again.

 

 

Pretty nice save, being able to recover your appdata folder.

Nice job :)