Pickysaurus Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 I tried transferring the mod folder to a (much slower) HDD and although I couldn't deploy since Skyrim wasn't on that disk I could do everything up until then including run FOMOD installers.The disk that worked was NTFS but the one that doesn't is exFAT.I'm going to try taking everything off it and reformatting it as NTFS and restoring it and see if I can get things working that way. Skyrim requires an NTFS drive to be compatible with Vortex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mant101 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Skyrim requires an NTFS drive to be compatible with Vortex. Well it would be super helpful if Vortex actually warned you in the UI somewhere the drive's formatting wasn't compatible when you set the mod folder location.I assume this new with 1.6.7 along with the other permissions weirdness since its worked fine since, well pretty much since Vortex was released and only now is having issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showler Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 It sort of does? It's not new. Vortex needs an NTFS drive to use the default "hardlink deployment" method of deploying mods. If you are not on an NTFS drive, it will usually pop up a warning telling you that mods can't be deployed and you need to use the alternative "move deployment" method instead. Or reformat your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickysaurus Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Skyrim requires an NTFS drive to be compatible with Vortex. Well it would be super helpful if Vortex actually warned you in the UI somewhere the drive's formatting wasn't compatible when you set the mod folder location.I assume this new with 1.6.7 along with the other permissions weirdness since its worked fine since, well pretty much since Vortex was released and only now is having issues. It's actually a bit of faff to accurately determine if you have an NTFS drive from an app like Vortex. If Vortex has no permission to even read the drive, for example, it may not be allowed to try and determine the file system type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 NTFS and exFAT aren't the only filesystems, e.g. any linux filesystem afaik supports hard-links, so do newer versions of ReFS. Therefore Vortex doesn't check which filesystem you have, it simply tries to create a link in a directory that Vortex has write access to (the staging folder, which Vortex definitively has write access to or it would have already failed sooner).If creating the link causes an error, Vortex gives you a corresponding message. 1.6.7 has nothing to do with this, permissions have nothing to do with this. hard-links don't work on exFAT, they never have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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