Updating Non-Nexus Mods

[AlreadyFree]

For non-nexus mods, is there a way to manually tell Vortex that a downloaded mod that's being installed is an update to a mod that's already installed? That way the old mod is automatically uninstalled and I don't lose all the metadata I manually added for that mod.

[Pickysaurus]

Not without whatever source you're getting the mod from integrating with Vortex.

[AlreadyFree]

Seems like that would be a fairly simple and useful option to add to the context menu. Click on installed mod and tell vortex to update that mod from a specific zip file.

[Guest deleted34304850]

how would vortex know to update the mod? because you tell it to? read these forums mate, take a look at the people making the posts - i wouldn't trust half of them to wind up a clock. what you're proposing is a guaranteed way to give people a bad day.

[showler]

What "metadata" are you losing?

[AlreadyFree]

What "metadata" are you losing?

I'm manually filling in the metadata for non-nexus mods (name, category, source, website, notes, version number) so i can keep track of what it is and where it came from. As it is now I have to copy and paste all of those forms after each update.

[Pickysaurus]

You could always request the mod be uploaded to the site? That would solve your problem in the simplest way