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Other things to remember: Not knowing MO2 keeps your mods, so when I'm redownloading them I'm not really (I guess?); switching from from Vortex to MO2; upgrading to an SSD which meant I actually did have to start over; etc. I haven't gone full wipe in a while and probably never will; but still, being able to hide a mod on my download list because it's the Oldrim version wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, would it?

Technically I don't HAVE to download my entire modlist again. It's just when I have a lot of mods and it seems like something's broken and I don't know what, because there are multiple candidates, I prefer starting over. Like if my game starts with the messed-up wagon issue, and it doesn't go away by me turning off the last mod I installed, or the second-to-last either, I say 'Lets try that again'. Also, it's amazing what you can accomplish screwing-things-up-wise when you haven't figured out Nemesis yet. Or don't realize a utility is only highly-endorsed because it's 10 years old and doesn't actually work anymore.

I've been working with Skyrim AE, and am generally new to modding and so forth... Long story short, I keep messing up (and learning from my mistakes), then going back to download everything by checking my download history, but that includes things that are NOT COMPATIBLE and cause problems. Either let me delete the mod from my download history, block it in some way so I don't download utilities that are out of date and break everything, or SOMETHING. Or like if two mods do the same thing, but one is so much better than the other--but they have similar names and it's hard to remember which one it was.

I'm playing Skyrim AE, if that's of any relevance to the following. I'm doing a clean reinstall of Skyrim, and after uninstalling it, I deleted the game's Steam folder. The Data folder was about 50GB of stuff. Then I went to the folder where Vortex is installed and deleted ITS Skyrim folder--about 50GB of stuff. I now wonder how Vortex handles downloads. Are some installed in one place, others in another? Or does Vortex download mods into its own folder, then install those mods in a game, keeping the original "copy" of the mod in its (Vortex's) folder? Or are some stored in the Vortex folder and others in Skyrim's folder? I guess what I really want to know is, If I install a mod via Vortex, is there stuff in Vortex I can then delete to save disk space?