Deploy is wiping out my ini files

[Poorman65]

I have been fighting this for awhile now and it extremely frustrating. I have ini files that are configured exactly the way I want them, but every time I deploy from Vortex, it overwrites them. This is an absolutely terrible "feature".

 

The software is smart enough to ask me what versions of plugin files that I want to use when they are modified. ... but it silently wipes out the ini files.

 

I had spent days going through web sites trying to configure them to solve issues I was having with my game, only to lose all of that work.

 

Now I have to remember to go an copy mine back in every time I deploy something.

[rmm200]

What specific ini files are you modifying - and where are they located?

You don't even tell us what game you are working with, so it is hard to advise.

Rest assured - Vortex preserves all my ini changes. Your result - is not normal.

Edited September 19, 2020 by rmm200

[Poorman65]

Sorry! This is for Skyrim SE. It is overwriting my Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini in my "Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition" folder.

[rmm200]

Stretching here - do you have copies of those files in the game directory?

Another place Vortex caches those files is AppData/Roaming/Vortex/skyrimse.

If you figure out which one is overwriting Documents, you can modify that one...

This would be a workaround until you figure out what is really going on.

[Poorman65]

This location is the where Skyrim SE loads them from. I'll check the Roaming folder and see if they are stowing a copy there, but it would be nice to have a way from stopping Vortex from doing this at all. It even overwrites them when they are Read only.

[Zanderat]

Not much help here. But that doesn't happen to me. Something else is going on for you.

 

Are you launching through Vortex? And if so, is it callingg the SSE launcher or SKSE64?

[HadToRegister]

I'm going to have to agree with Zenderat as well, I don't get any ini files reset upon deploy either, with FO3, FONV, Oblivion installed, and each needing specific ini file edits to accommodate DaRnUI and it's font replacements, this isn't happening to me.

OH!!!!

I think I might know what's causing it!!!

So you have Microsoft ONE DRIVE?

If so, One Drive has this useful but ANNOYING Feature, of backing up your files to the Cloud, without telling you that it does, the other thing it doesn't tell you that it's doing, as that whenever you change one of those files, it diligently, and in the background, RESTORES the original file, so you can change your ini file until the cows come home, and ONEDRIVE will keep restoring the original INI without telling you.

Check your setting and tell ONEDRIVE to stop backing up your files and folders, or at leats EXCLUDE that folder from getting backed up.

I had this happen t me and it drove me nuts.

[Poorman65]

I don't use One Drive. For those that say they don't have this problem, are you using Vortex Profiles? Maybe it a flaw with Profiles.

 

This is killing me. I have been working on Lexy's LOTD mod guide for several days, and I lost all of the skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini changes.

 

Is there a log file somewhere? Maybe it is automatically launching a utility when I deploy?

[HadToRegister]

I don't use One Drive. For those that say they don't have this problem, are you using Vortex Profiles? Maybe it a flaw with Profiles.

 

This is killing me. I have been working on Lexy's LOTD mod guide for several days, and I lost all of the skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini changes.

 

Is there a log file somewhere? Maybe it is automatically launching a utility when I deploy?

 

I have several profiles for several different games such as Fallout New Vegas, Subnautica, Oblivion, Skyrim SE etc.

 

Try this First, if it works, there's no need to do every thing else in the post after the --------------------------------- line

 

Go to PROFILES------> click the Drop Down Arrow on each profile (The ACTIVE Profile button will say ENABLE, the other inactive Profile buttons will say EDIT), click on the small drop down arrow on each of those profiles and select EDIT, now turn OFF "THIS PROFILE HAS ITS OWN GAME SETTINGS", do that with all profiles.

 

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Go to SETTINGS-------------->VORTEX

What's your Multi-User Mode set to?

 

SHARED or PER-USER?

 

Mine is set to "Shared"

 

Also, instead of typing in all that stuff every time your INI files get wiped out, and retyping it...

Why don't you type in all that stuff, then MAKE A COPY of the INI files in another location, so you don't keep having to do all that work over and over again?

[Poorman65]

 

I don't use One Drive. For those that say they don't have this problem, are you using Vortex Profiles? Maybe it a flaw with Profiles.

 

This is killing me. I have been working on Lexy's LOTD mod guide for several days, and I lost all of the skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini changes.

 

Is there a log file somewhere? Maybe it is automatically launching a utility when I deploy?

 

I have several profiles for several different games such as Fallout New Vegas, Subnautica, Oblivion, Skyrim SE etc.

 

Try this First, if it works, there's no need to do every thing else in the post after the --------------------------------- line

 

Go to PROFILES------> click the Drop Down Arrow on each profile (The ACTIVE Profile button will say ENABLE, the other inactive Profile buttons will say EDIT), click on the small drop down arrow on each of those profiles and select EDIT, now turn OFF "THIS PROFILE HAS ITS OWN GAME SETTINGS", do that with all profiles.

 

----------------------------------------------------------

 

Go to SETTINGS-------------->VORTEX

What's your Multi-User Mode set to?

 

SHARED or PER-USER?

 

Mine is set to "Shared"

 

Also, instead of typing in all that stuff every time your INI files get wiped out, and retyping it...

Why don't you type in all that stuff, then MAKE A COPY of the INI files in another location, so you don't keep having to do all that work over and over again?

 

I definitely have "THIS PROFILE HAS ITS OWN GAME SETTINGS" turned on. I will turn it off and hopefully that will get rid of the bug. Unfortunately, that will require me to mange copies of the settings for my profiles manually. Shouldn't be a huge issue though, but it seems like that is exactly what that setting is for.

 

I switched to "Shared" as you mentioned. This could have an impact, since sometimes I may be in Admin mode, and others not.

 

I had started maintaining a copy of the ini files so that I can overwrite with them before playing if I have done a Deploy. In this case, however, I am making changes as I am working through the steps of a mod guide. I didn't make a back up after every ini file change, which is what I would have needed to do. If I were starting this over, I would just work on a copy first, so that it couldn't be overwritten.