Starfire12

Understood. Will do that then.

Sorta. Not sure If I should purge the mods, though. I have enough space on the portable HDD to just copy everything. My biggets worry is this though: If I follow these steps and then delete everything on the SSD, Vortex is probably going to report any number of errors, even after following this guide. However I'd still like to use it for modding Skyrim instead of just leaving it unused until playing Fallout 4 again. Anyway thanks for the help, that should cover the most important steps at any rate.

I'd like to uninstall Fallout4 as I finished my current game and need the SSD space. Since I probably will want to play it again some time in the future, I was wondering if there is a way to preserve the installation in it's current form. So question: If I were to copy-paste: 1. The FO4 installation folder in Steam. 2. The folder that Vortex downloads the mod archives to. 3. The folder that Vortex unpacks mods to for deployment to my portable HDD before uninstalling FO4 and deleting the files on my SSD, could I then put everything back how it was before and pick up where I left of or would Vortex and/or Windows refuse to work with that and insist my installtion is corrupt, missing, etc? If it doesn't work is there another way to backup and restore the current state of a Vortex modded Fallout 4?