New Drives means new installs

[Daimy0shi]

So I bought a m2 solid state drive and as a result I have new installs of the games I had modded and a new install of vortex. I trying to figure out the best way to at least find what I had installed so I can install it again. It also occurs to be that do to space reason it might be an idea to remove and reinstall on the large Data drive I have. I kept my old C: Drive in the machine so I can access it. I am not sure where to begin. If I understand other posts Vortex keeps the mod data in it own folder not in the the game directory correct?

[HadToRegister]

Yes, it keeps the extracted and linked mods in the Mod Staging Folder.

What you should've done from the start was to PURGE your mods, BEFORE you put in the new drive, then you're free to swap drives, and copy things over to the new drive WITH THE SAME PATHS AS BEFORE.

Copying your mod staging folder WITHOUT purging, will cause windows to sever the hardlinks, and instead copy a physical copy of the mods instead, meaning that you will end up with a Mod Staging Folder Hard Copy, AND a Game Folder Hard Copy of your mods.

[Daimy0shi]

Yes, it keeps the extracted and linked mods in the Mod Staging Folder.

 

What you should've done from the start was to PURGE your mods, BEFORE you put in the new drive, then you're free to swap drives, and copy things over to the new drive WITH THE SAME PATHS AS BEFORE.

 

Copying your mod staging folder WITHOUT purging, will cause windows to sever the hardlinks, and instead copy a physical copy of the mods instead, meaning that you will end up with a Mod Staging Folder Hard Copy, AND a Game Folder Hard Copy of your mods.

 

I would be happy with some way of telling what I had at this point. While Downloading everything sucks just a ability to figure out what I had would help.

[HadToRegister]

 

Yes, it keeps the extracted and linked mods in the Mod Staging Folder.

 

What you should've done from the start was to PURGE your mods, BEFORE you put in the new drive, then you're free to swap drives, and copy things over to the new drive WITH THE SAME PATHS AS BEFORE.

 

Copying your mod staging folder WITHOUT purging, will cause windows to sever the hardlinks, and instead copy a physical copy of the mods instead, meaning that you will end up with a Mod Staging Folder Hard Copy, AND a Game Folder Hard Copy of your mods.

 

I would be happy with some way of telling what I had at this point. While Downloading everything sucks just a ability to figure out what I had would help.

 

 

 

Then just look in your old C:\ hard drive Vortex DOWNLOADS folder, and copy them over to your new download folder on the SSD drive, so you don't have to download them again

 

C:\users\YOUR NAME\appdata\roaming\Vortex\ -OR- C:\users\YOUR NAME\appdata\roaming\Blacktree gaming\Vortex\

 

Once you start up your new install of vortex with the contents of your old C:\ drive DOWNLOAD folder copied over, then just use CTRL + A to select all the mods, and pick "GUESS ID" so Vortex will look up the info for all the mods from the Nexus

[Daimy0shi]

Thanks for the help, while I missed something in your statement, I was to mostly install from the download folder one at a time that seems to have worked. it take a while to check everything.