Vortex is deleting all my game data

[cataclysm151]

Every time i use vortex, it deletes the esm files and then I cannot play the game anymore. I have no idea what is happening but I have had to re download fallout 4 from steam 3 times now as it keeps deleting most of the files that the game needs to run. Is there anyway to prevent this from occurring or am I just doomed to not be able to use vortex?

[showler]

Well, Vortex does not actually delete any files from your game folder that it did not put there. And it only puts links there, not real files if configured correctly.

 

So you've got something massively messed up and may want to start from scratch.

[7531Leonidas]

Deleting of files upon access sounds to me like some kind of security, automated maintenance, or anti-virus routine. What OS are you using, and any related anti-virus programs? Any automatic disk cleanup routines?

[Pickysaurus]

The code to delete the core ESM files for Fallout 4 simply doesn't exist in Vortex, so it's not the mod manager doing this.

 

The only possible way I can think of is if you put all the ESMs from the base game into a mod inside Vortex and then disabled it - this wouldn't delete them but it might remove them from the data folder.

 

You should check if they actually appear under "Plugins" in Vortex. If they do, they haven't been deleted.

 

I have seen a bug before where your plugins.txt file is borked which results in the default plugins somehow not loading (although that was for Skyrim). The fix for that was to go to Open -> Open Game Application Data Folder in the Mods section and delete the plugins.txt and loadorder.txt, then run a sort in the Plugin tab to regenerate the files.