Garethp

Well, if that's all you're after then yes, there is a mod like that. I made one https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/67. Source code is on Github and all that. If you want anything more than a JSON export/import, then I guess you can use the source code of the plugin to expand it and maybe make a PR

I'll add that as a feature to take a look at That's really good feedback, thanks. I'll do what I can to clean up some of the entries that are backed up. I'm not sure why some mods don't have name and fileId, since I'm fetching those from the vortex state, but I'll have a look into it. In terms of separating the games into unique outputs, I'll put that down as a feature to add. I took a look at A Quality World Map and Solstheim Map - With Roads, and it looks like it's not actually listing the same thing 3 times, but rather it's listing each of the mods from A Quality World Map once. One entry for the mod, one for the Clear Map Skies Add-On and one for the New World Map Object Add-On. If you didn't have those installed, let me know because that would be a serious issue I don't know if there's anything I can do about backing up load order, and it's not something I was trying to accomplish with this, but I'll ask around and see if there's a good way to do that. Is there any other instability that you've come across?

Well, if you guys are still looking for a mod list exporter, I made Vortex Mod that you can install to export your modlist. Check it out here https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/67

Well, let's say you have have 100 Skyrim Mods installed, but you haven't played in a bit. So backup your modlist, delete all the mods, uninstall Skyrim and instead move on to a modded version of Fallout 4. So you activate Fallout 4 in Vortex, add some mods and then backup the modlist. Previously the new backup wouldn't include any Skyrim mods since there were no Skyrim mods installed in Vortex. Now however, if you're overwriting a previous backup file it only removes mods from that backup file if they're for the game you currently have selected. So in the example above, you're Skyrim mods would still be in the backup list.

Hi All. I've made a new Vortex Extension and thought that this would be a good place to share it. So I present Vortex Modlist Backup. Vortex Modlist Backup is just what it sounds like, it backs up the list of mods that you've got installed, and then lets you restore from that list. It doesn't backup the mod files themselves, or any configuration, so the output is a nice and small JSON file that you can save anywhere. When restoring, it just asks Vortex to download those mods again from Nexus. Unfortunately due to decisions made by Nexus, you need to be a Premium member to restore your modlist.

Yeah, since I made that post I asked around in the Discord chat and got some advice on how to have the user pick their own save file location and how to restore from their own save file location

I was rather surprised that there wasn't an export/import function, so I tried to make an extension to add one myself. It's very simple and just a first beta version essentially, but you can download it here: Vortex-Modlist-Backup. You download that into a folder in the plugins folder for Vortex (I have it in %AppData%\Vortex\plugins\extension-backup), and then when you go to the Modlist in Vortex there's a Modlist dropdown with a Backup and a Restore button. Backup just creates a json file in the same directory as the plugin and Restore restores that list. Unfortunately you need to be Premium members to restore, but it ottherwise works. It would be possible to make it so that you don't have to be a Premium Member, but it's specifically designed to not let you do that so that you don't bypass ads, and I'm not sure Nexus would appreciate a plugin that gets rid of that. There's some features I still want to make (such as being able to choose where to back the files up to and where to restore them from), but for now it should work for keeping a back up for a large list of mods

I was rather surprised that there wasn't an export/import function, so I tried to make an extension to add one myself. It's very simple and just a first beta version essentially, but you can download it here: Vortex-Modlist-Backup. You download that into a folder in the plugins folder for Vortex (I have it in %AppData%\Vortex\plugins\extension-backup), and then when you go to the Modlist in Vortex there's a Modlist dropdown with a Backup and a Restore button. Backup just creates a json file in the same directory as the plugin and Restore restores that list. Unfortunately you need to be Premium members to restore, but it ottherwise works. There's some features I still want to make (such as being able to choose where to back the files up to and where to restore them from), but for now it should work for keeping a back up for a large list of mods

I was rather surprised that there wasn't an export/import function, so I tried to make an extension to add one myself. It's very simple and just a first beta version essentially, but you can download it here: Vortex-Modlist-Backup. You download that into a folder in the plugins folder for Vortex (I have it in %AppData%\Vortex\plugins\extension-backup), and then when you go to the Modlist in Vortex there's a Modlist dropdown with a Backup and a Restore button. Backup just creates a json file in the same directory as the plugin and Restore restores that list. Unfortunately you need to be Premium members to restore, but it ottherwise works. There's some features I still want to make (such as being able to choose where to back the files up to and where to restore them from), but for now it should work for keeping a back up for a large list of mods