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The part you ignored, again, because apparently you don't know how to read things carefully: Congratulations. You've perfectly embodied the idea of being terrible at your job: pretending it's quite literally not your problem, and blaming someone else for it. You still also have four people, not just two, who are reporting this problem.

It's literally not just the two of us. Go back and read the thread, and you'll see this is now four of us reporting this same problem. Also, I don't have any extensions installed, and never did. Seriously. READ THE THREAD. There are four of us end-users IN THIS THREAD reporting problems with vortex auto-purging after deployment.

Just want to make sure this is on the official record. I *just* bought a brand new hard drive specifically to play modded Skyrim. Premium name brand, too. Like not top-of-the-line - that's PCIe 5.0 - but close enough for me. Do you see the price tag there? I paid about $1200 with interest for financing this. Do you see the date of the invoice? That's about two weeks ago. If my brand new SSD burns out prematurely because your software *insists* on repeatedly and unnecessarily auto-purging, I WILL sue you. I urge you to do something aside from arbitrarily not caring.

You gotta be kidding me This is some Looney Tunes s***. The mod above requires about 26 other mods to be installed. I did install them. Then, you install THAT mod, and it replaces all of the .ESP files with ESP-FE so the conflicts all go away but you get the remaining assets. Well, it's supposed to be "26 clothing mods" ==> "dx armor mod" as shown above" But Vortex keeps purging the clothing mods. So I re-deploy them. Then DX Armor mod, which detects which of those mods you installed and lets you select them, as I'm running the installer Vortex purges the other clothing mods after the DX mod starts installing, but BEFORE the selection menus appear, so the selections are messed up. Which forces me to stop the installation, re-install the purged mods, and then start the installation again...and then they purge again. Catch-22, infinite loop. Please turn off all auto-purging in the next update. I just got a brand new 8TB SSD specifically for Skyrim modding, and I'd rather not see it burnt out because your app *insists* on writing several hundred extra terabytes per month that it literally doesn't need to. So, please tell me: how do I turn off the auto-purging?

So this is now *three* people having this issue. Just in case anyone else was wanting to chime in and look for an excuse to not care or stick it in my face.

Also, are you not paying attention to this thread? Did you not see there was someone else reporting *exactly* the same problem?

I have two antivirus software (Avira, McAfee) that were installed before I ever downloaded Vortex for the first time. They're not being blocked by my firewall, either. You also completely ignored my previous post: If you'd like to help, I urge you to go back and actually read *ALL* of what I posted, instead of snipping a particular bit and commenting on *that*. Comment with *the entire post* quoted as a response. So explain to me how Vortex could just "forget" to purge 100,000 files when it auto-purged, and it didn't get fixed until after I manually purged right after Vortex auto-purged itself. It took two purges in a row for the /Data folder to be clean as it should be.

I finally found the folder where the logs are kept %appdata%/Vortex There are 5 log files (vortex.txt, vortexN.txt (where 'N' is a number 1-5). Vortex.txt shows where the mod was being installed at the same time a purge was being initiated (the purge shows up first in the log, but the installation actually happened first). Something else strange to note is that apparently Vortex is numbering these files in reverse order? I figured this out when I noted the timestamps. vortex5.txt is the oldest, and vortex.txt the newest.

The plot thickens. I found ESPs from two mods that were *not* being removed from the Skyrim Special Edition/Data folder. I deleted them - Vortex only yelled at me (giving me a red error message about an invalid plugin) after deleting one of them - but after purging and re-deploying there were no errors. Then I installed a new mod just now, and vortex took the opportunity to purge...except it looks like it didn't purge at all. There are still a ton of files in there. About 78 gigs worth. I then manually purged, and the Data folder dropped by about 60 gigs in size. I JUST installed a mod, and while it was installing Vortex auto-purged AGAIN: You are correct to note that it purged this file because it caused conflicts; however, the purge was initiated BEFORE the mod's installation completed! Is this specific thing a new feature of Vortex introduced in the latest update? Auto-purging after new mod installs? You said I'm the only person experiencing this, so this can't be correct. Meanwhile, I checked my Skyrim Special Edition/Data folder, and after it auto-purged it did a funny thing. It left a ton of extra files behind: I then *manually* purged after this, and look what happened: It left 100,000+ files behind after the auto-purge. Is this a clue to what is going on? -edit- I resolved the conflicts after I published this post, and it auto-purged again: After this auto-purge, my /Data folder remained around 18 gigs as in the latter screenshot before the edit, above.

Which log file should I be checking?

Is there any way I can disable the auto-purging? Because it's quite literally not helping.

This is installing a *new* mod. EVERY time I install a *new* mod that literally conflicts with nothing else. My Vortex was also *not* doing this when I first installed and started modding Skyrim just back in December of last year. I could install *hundreds* of mods, sort out the conflicts, etc., and *never* had to worry about Vortex auto-purging after every installation. ^My version

Nope. Literally not that at all. I've only ever used Hardlink.

And now it randomly started to purge all of my mods again. ^^This is for anyone who thought I was crazy, and it wasn't auto-purging. It does this *every* time I install a mod, and this time also did it after I uninstalled a mod.

aaaaaaaaand suddenly now it's no longer auto-purging with me doing nothing but leaving the comptuer on. GEE IT'S ALMOST LIKE VORTEX IS DOING THINGS IN THE BACKGROUND WITHOUT TELLING US BECAUSE THIS PROBLEM LITERALLY FIXED ITSELF WITHOUT MY DOING ANYTHING.