VictorCreed2

You realise you're doing the same thing? You can't possibly be wrong. I just reread your first post, and you came off thorny to begin with. People are going to react to the energy you give off. Regardless if you think telling me to watch a video was good advice, your following posts were a mess. You got progressively antagonistic, and posted absolute falsehoods about how you perceived me. I was taking in information and applying it to my situation just fine. I had completely solved one thing and was asking about something else when you insisted that I was refusing to listen. Amazingly I solved everything, proof that you don't know what you're talking about. If you hadn't posted at all it would've been done much faster.

Let's see, right after someone posted the information I needed, you made a post giving terrible advice to go watch a video. (Why watch a video about a program that I've already been using and only have one specific question about, that most likely wouldn't be covered in a video?) Then after I missed a key line of text, I asked specifically about the thing that I missed. The very next post was you, claiming that I ignored all advice and people should stop helping me. I was that close to solving everything. And I had not ignored any advice except "go watch a video" (plus I've already done that.) You severely misread the situation, chimed in when you shouldn't have, and then acted like a dick because it took me a beat longer to figure out something than it should have, while I was being distracted by YOU.

One last question if anyone's still... alive. How in the world are you able to tell if a file is real or a hardlink? Because even WinDirStat is telling me that the mods in my data folder are taking up disk space. So in theory, if I filled my hard disk to capacity, would it show that I'm OVER capacity? Or would it not let me fill that much...cause if that's the case then for all practical purposes the hardlinks are taking up real space.

we're all thinking the same about you. F**K off, you haven't said one helpful thing. Nobody on the first page told me that the files in the data folder don't take up real space, which should be evident in all my posts that I didn't know that. If you can't explain something simply so that an idiot can understand it, then you ain't that smart. Not like you ever tried to help. I told you that in my 3rd response to you, and in every single response after that. I knew exactly what you were talking about, which is why I explained HARDLINKS more than once. As a matter of fact, the first time I mentioned HARD LINKS, the post you made right below my spot said "Someone mentioned HardLinks" It's as if you weren't even reading my responses. I missed your explanation about hard links because someone posted a nearly identical post right below you. But I did ask about hard links in my next post because I thought I realised what was going on, but in the very next reply 1ae0bfb8 told me to get lost like I wasn't in the middle of figuring out what my problem was and made up some fiction that I was refusing help even though I already made 50% progress. This thread would have been a whole lot less heated if someone wasn't sitting on the sidelines making dickish comments and saying things that weren't true, which is why I reported him for flame-baiting. EDIT: Actually there were three posts in a row that were formatted the same, but only the first one explicitly said that hardlinks were in the data folder. This is how I got confused, but then I asked specifically about hardlinks because it seemed like the answer I was looking for. That other guy's intervention was completely unnecessary and only made it harder for me to focus on finding the answer. Maybe I would have reread some of the earlier posts if there wasn't someone antagonizing me.

When did I ever ignore or protest against advice? I said I'd rather manually download my files, which is what someone said I could do as long as I downloaded them into Vortex's download folder. And I said I'd do that! I said hey guys I got that one extra copy of files out of the way, but there's still 3... still waiting for the obvious advise that the data folder is full of hardlinks that don't take up space.

we're all thinking the same about you. F**K off, you haven't said one helpful thing. Nobody on the first page told me that the files in the data folder don't take up real space, which should be evident in all my posts that I didn't know that. If you can't explain something simply so that an idiot can understand it, then you ain't that smart. Not like you ever tried to help.

If you want to use basically the same disk space with Vortex as you did with NMM, then keep either your own download folder or the Vortex download folder, but not both. You are then left with two folders - the download folder containing your mod archives and the Mod Staging Folder containing the expanded archives. The mods in your game data folder are not a third group of mods taking up space. They are hard links that mirror what's in your Mod Staging Folder. If you don't know what hard links are, then google it. That's basically what I needed to know. I don't know how many times I had to reiterate my concern before someone caught on. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure I'm doing it exactly how I saw in a video. It said to drag my files into Vortex. Nobody mentioned that dragging files in would create an extra copy. But I'm beyond that point now.

wtf? none of that happened. reread my questions, damn. I already eliminated the one extra copy that I made myself.

To me, download with mod manager is the hard way. I understand how to eliminate an extra copy of my mods, by downloading everything directly into Vortex's download folder. This doesn't stop there from being two versions of everything in the Vortex folder and a third version in the data folder. But I see someone mentioned "Hard Links" and I have no idea what that is. Is that the copy of the mod that's in the data folder? If that is the case, then that's just confusing.

Either way, Vortex makes TWO copies in its own folder, so I have to have three copies minimum. I don't know how to download mods through Vortex. I prefer to do it manually. If this is a weird quirk then so be it. I'll put my own personal downloads on a seperate drive and that'll be that. But why does Vortex make two copies of everything plus a third copy in the game's data? NMM didn't create any copies--it just took them from my personal download folder and put them into the game data folder.

When I manually download SkyrimSE mods I put them in a folder I created. I then drag them into Vortex, install, etc. Then every mod appears in C:\ProgramData\Vortex\skyrimse AND C:\ProgramData\Vortex\downloads\skyrimse AND then in the game's own data folder. This is almost 10GB of mods, multiplied to 40GB of precious hard drive space. Is this normal or what? The old NMM would only make one additional copy, so it'd be my downloads plus the game's data folder. And I thought that was bad.

Okay, thanks for the info. :turned:

Is a forthcoming patch confirmed, or is that just speculation? I wasn't exactly counting on a new patch because it was the final DLC and they might be done with the whole thing. I also don't play a lot of current games so my only other experience is Skyrim, which never got any updates for its DLC.

Basically I want to remove the mods I'm currently using and load a modded save with the vanilla patch. Is there any way I can edit a save file and tell it to load with an older patch number? I know I can edit the patch and increase the version number, but I'd rather my save work with the vanilla patch.