Vortex on non-english PC + 'moved' "My Documents" folder

[DeMons6674]

Hi all

Posting more to help others who can't get Vortex to deploy Starfield mods.

 

Did the ini file (correctly), followed too much tutorials to no avail, accelerated my receiding hairline, and neither hardlink nor symlink works.

Nothing I did worked.

 

There's two peculiarities of my PC.

 

1/ Language is not English.

2/ 'Documents' folder has been moved from my primary drive (C - NVME SSD) to D (plain old HDD)

 

Starfield for the life of me did not want to display or activate the mods.

 

UNTIL I manually created the "C:\Documents\My Games\Starfield\" folder (containing both Starfield ini files)

 

So I'm unsure if Starfield is the cause (saves work correctly and they're from the D drive) OR some path is hardcoded in Vortex to create the hardlink or symlinks to the C drive.

 

That said, it's either a bug or a weirdness specific to my combo, but I hope this message pops up on google and helps someone. Might be worth to mention this somewhere ;-)

 

Kind regards,

DM

[m0ax]

BROOO I can't believe it. You know you've got to be the only person on the entire internet that has posted about this issue? I'm sure you noticed, and you totally just gave me the solution. Just make a new folder in the C drive manually.

 

My problem was that my documents folder was permanently located on Microsoft Onedrive, in the cloud & shared across all of my PCs, don't let OneDrive do that, by the way. Anyways, I put too many mods on, went past 5 GB on Onedrive, and microsoft stopped me from adding more files/mods into the predetermined folder. So i unlink the OneCloud folder from being my desktop's master "documents" folder, and it makes a separate new local Documents folder, which is empty and I have to copy the contents over, Starfieldcustom.ini, Data folder, saves folder & all.

 

BUT, Vortex apparently will not let us change the "Mod Folder", only open it. So dumb. So, my brother, you have my solution and you are my savior. I love you, DeMons6674. I thank you so much for taking the time to notice no one else had posted about it ANYWHERE, and decided to make it your first & only post on the forums.

 

Unfortunately, I've encountered an error that I was encountering earlier. You know how the documents Mod Folder, the one with the Starfieldcustom.ini, has a "Data" folder in it? Well so does the Install path, where the exe. is. So my vortex keeps deploying mods to the Install Path Data folder instead of the Mod Folder Data folder, so the mods are not deploying, as that's the wrong Data folder, they just share the same name, big oversight. I will not be able to fix this until they let us choose where the mod folder is, because right now, my Game Installation Folder and my Mod Folder are the same, and that's wrong. I'll update if I find a solution in case another poor soul finds himself with us here.

 

Hi all

Posting more to help others who can't get Vortex to deploy Starfield mods.

 

Did the ini file (correctly), followed too much tutorials to no avail, accelerated my receiding hairline, and neither hardlink nor symlink works.

Nothing I did worked.

 

There's two peculiarities of my PC.

 

1/ Language is not English.

2/ 'Documents' folder has been moved from my primary drive (C - NVME SSD) to D (plain old HDD)

 

Starfield for the life of me did not want to display or activate the mods.

 

UNTIL I manually created the "C:\Documents\My Games\Starfield\" folder (containing both Starfield ini files)

 

So I'm unsure if Starfield is the cause (saves work correctly and they're from the D drive) OR some path is hardcoded in Vortex to create the hardlink or symlinks to the C drive.

 

That said, it's either a bug or a weirdness specific to my combo, but I hope this message pops up on google and helps someone. Might be worth to mention this somewhere ;-)

 

Kind regards,

DM

[showler]

Vortex uses one method to move the mods to the game install folder (which involves symlinks).

 

There's a mod available that also moves the mods to the game install folder, but it only works with the Steam version and uses the script extender.

 

If you're having problems with OneDrive and using the Steam version then that might solve your issue.

[DeMons6674]

You're welcome. Was quite sure I wouldn't be the only one having this issue, and if I could help just one person it'd be worth it. As to your current issue, switch between hardlink and symlink. Might help...

 

 

BROOO I can't believe it. You know you've got to be the only person on the entire internet that has posted about this issue? I'm sure you noticed, and you totally just gave me the solution. Just make a new folder in the C drive manually.

 

My problem was that my documents folder was permanently located on Microsoft Onedrive, in the cloud & shared across all of my PCs, don't let OneDrive do that, by the way. Anyways, I put too many mods on, went past 5 GB on Onedrive, and microsoft stopped me from adding more files/mods into the predetermined folder. So i unlink the OneCloud folder from being my desktop's master "documents" folder, and it makes a separate new local Documents folder, which is empty and I have to copy the contents over, Starfieldcustom.ini, Data folder, saves folder & all.

 

BUT, Vortex apparently will not let us change the "Mod Folder", only open it. So dumb. So, my brother, you have my solution and you are my savior. I love you, DeMons6674. I thank you so much for taking the time to notice no one else had posted about it ANYWHERE, and decided to make it your first & only post on the forums.

 

Unfortunately, I've encountered an error that I was encountering earlier. You know how the documents Mod Folder, the one with the Starfieldcustom.ini, has a "Data" folder in it? Well so does the Install path, where the exe. is. So my vortex keeps deploying mods to the Install Path Data folder instead of the Mod Folder Data folder, so the mods are not deploying, as that's the wrong Data folder, they just share the same name, big oversight. I will not be able to fix this until they let us choose where the mod folder is, because right now, my Game Installation Folder and my Mod Folder are the same, and that's wrong. I'll update if I find a solution in case another poor soul finds himself with us here.

 

Hi all

Posting more to help others who can't get Vortex to deploy Starfield mods.

 

Did the ini file (correctly), followed too much tutorials to no avail, accelerated my receiding hairline, and neither hardlink nor symlink works.

Nothing I did worked.

 

There's two peculiarities of my PC.

 

1/ Language is not English.

2/ 'Documents' folder has been moved from my primary drive (C - NVME SSD) to D (plain old HDD)

 

Starfield for the life of me did not want to display or activate the mods.

 

UNTIL I manually created the "C:\Documents\My Games\Starfield\" folder (containing both Starfield ini files)

 

So I'm unsure if Starfield is the cause (saves work correctly and they're from the D drive) OR some path is hardcoded in Vortex to create the hardlink or symlinks to the C drive.

 

That said, it's either a bug or a weirdness specific to my combo, but I hope this message pops up on google and helps someone. Might be worth to mention this somewhere ;-)

 

Kind regards,

DM