mohawk32

I recently had a bad horsey problem that ended with me completely reinstalling windows and wiping every app and program from my C drive. Vortex of course was one of those programs. My games are all on different drives, so I didn't lose game files, mod files, staging folders, anything like that. After re installing Vortex, I quickly found out it was an absolute pain in the ass to set my game back up. Requiring empty staging folders, forcing purges, just all around crap. I have 1.08TB of (Not just downloaded and installed, but carefully hand placed, and creatively altered content throughout, my own edits) Mods. I absolutely refuse to purge my work, Vortex won't re install MY work, it will overwrite MY work with original mods. Anyway, I ended up temporarily removing my vortex.deployment.json, deleted EVERY "__folder_managed_by_vortex" file (all 15,793 of them), let it "purge" nothing, and tested that I could finally deploy a new mod. So, basically, I made Vortex think ALL the mods in my data folder are just vanilla game files that it needs not worry about... And then I noticed a "Mod" in the Mods section of vortex called "Fallout4" with a size of 293.21GB... It's the staging folder and all it's contents... I forgot that in the midst of trying to set things up, I made a new staging folder for Vortex, deleted it after setup, and renamed my old one to take it's place. So, by doing this, I have saved my entire mod depolyment and all of my custom work which was reflected in my staging folder as ONE mod. Recovery is a pain that I wish was a little easier with more info on the subject.

So... If I remove the vortex.deployment.json before a purge, I don't lose the 1.08TB of content I created before my PC died and I had to recover it? Please tell me that's what I read up there, and if it's true, Thank GOD!

I've been at this one for about two weeks now. I've checked everything I can think to check, all my pathing looks correct to the best of my knowledge. All textures are present, bgsm files are good. Plugin is showing no errors. Everything is weight painted. Instead of just asking what could cause this problem, I'm asking if someone could download the file and check it out for me. Let me know what you find so I can fix it.