How to rename mods before you install?

[Valour549]

Clicking the "Mod Manager Download" almost never work properly for me. Especially for larger files, because for Vortex will start the download and gets stuck on "pending", and trying to resume fails most of the time.

 

So the solution is to download manually, then drag and drop.

 

But what happens when the author gives two different mods the same name?

 

After you drag them into Vortex, it thinks they different versions of the same mod. So it only allows you to install one of them, not both simultaneously. Using the re-install option to install a different variant doesn't work either, because even though both can be installed, only one can be enabled at any given time.

 

You can rename mods after you install them, but that doesn't help in this scenario at all.

 

So I'm looking for a way to rename mods (not in File Explorer cause Vortex doesn't care about that name) before you install to solve this problem.

 

 

Case in point:

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/33278

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/33107

 

These are two different mods with different contents entirely, but when you download them manually and then drag into Vortex, they have the same name ("2k"), and even the same version, and there is no way to install AND enable both at the same time.

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EDIT: Found a solution, unpack the downloaded zip file, then re-zip the contents and rename as you see fit. Now when you drag it into Vortex it'll even have the same new name. Not exactly the most elegant solution (Vortex should really have an advanced button to allow different versions of the 'same' mod to be installed as two diff mods), but hey it works.

Edited February 26, 2021 by Selenarious

[HadToRegister]

Never mind, I misunderstood