Vortex lost track of my game folders and wiped all the mod data

[LegendaryHiccupz]

I went to go check on my mod list before starting again and Vortex decided out of the blue that it couldn't find my installed games (Skyrim SE in this case) and it took all the mod files installed through Vortex as well as all of the loose files I had installed for modding with it. Now I have to start from scratch all over again because Vortex bricked itself. Now I'm forced to either rebuild my mods or ragequit because of this. How can I be sure this won't happen again in the next session? What the heck happened? How often does this sort of thing even happen?

 

Edit: It didn't wipe the loose files like I thought, it just can't find them and it's refusing to find them.

[rmm200]

Start here:

 

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/7332636-how-to-post-request-support-for-vortex/

[Guest deleted34304850]

I went to go check on my mod list before starting again and Vortex decided out of the blue that it couldn't find my installed games (Skyrim SE in this case) and it took all the mod files installed through Vortex as well as all of the loose files I had installed for modding with it. Now I have to start from scratch all over again because Vortex bricked itself. Now I'm forced to either rebuild my mods or ragequit because of this. How can I be sure this won't happen again in the next session? What the heck happened? How often does this sort of thing even happen?

 

Edit: It didn't wipe the loose files like I thought, it just can't find them and it's refusing to find them.

no computer program does anything "out of the blue", so let's start at the beginning.

what did you change on your system? what did you change in vortex? from there we can try to help.