DriftingEvil

that did it. thank you much

well s#*! that'll do it. Luckily this is the only thing I have on that HD so Ill see if I can reformat it to an NTFS and get it working that way. Will update and thank you

'F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\SkyrimVR\data\textures\smim\furniture\smelter\' is an 'empty folder' with a files named __delete_if_empty in it. I am using an external SSD, I am not sure if it self-encrypts or anything odd like that, it might but. Looking through the properties there is nothing obvious. Its a SanDisk Extreme 500, which comes with encryption software, but I didn't intentionally encrypt it. So nothing else that might be odd. How do I completely uninstall Vortex? I've uninstalled it a couple of times and tried to wiped out everything to do a totally clean reinstall, but it always finds the previous preferences. edit: I also noticed that even with I try to uninstall all mods (via vortex), the splash screen says there are still '4 active mods' also tried again, this time only deploying the unofficial patch. Still no luck on deployment and I submitted everything again. Time is ~544GMT incase there's a pile of submissions.

same exact issue, except I'd like to add I've never gotten a mod to deploy. I also noticed there are several processes named vortex, under the primary vortex process, not sure if that is supposed to happen or if there are multiple instances running, and it is these multi instance that is locking the files for deployment. I just submitted a feedback file with everything there was a drop down item for.