Vortex Problem - Fallout 4 - Mods won't load anymore

[jownation]

I just made a post on the nexusmods reddit, and a bot advised me to post here, so I'm following the advice:

"Hi there,

I'm having a little problem and not sure the next steps to take.

Last year I had gotten a fresh computer. Reinstalled the latest Vortex, then Fallout 4, started adding mods. Fooled around a while, and got a nice set of mods that worked together, ran stable, all was well. Then, I didn't play the game for about six months.

I go to load it up and open it from the Fallout 4 .exe file. Continue and it's like, all your mods are missing. Oops, that's right! Forgot to load through Vortex.
I open Vortex and it wants to update to the latest version, so I do that, then go into the game and it STILL says that all my mods are missing.
Oh no! Recheck my folder paths and they seem fine. Decide to roll back a version and download the previous version, from May 9th, 2023. I think that must be the version I was using, but even with that version I'm still getting the error.

Just wondering if there's a step I've forgotten to take? I know in Skyrim I always had to run another program first to clean up the files (can't remember the program names off the top of my head). Am I missing doing something here?

Appreciate any help! Thank you very much!"

[Pickysaurus]

Did you enable the plugins in the "Plugins" section of Vortex? 

That's the important part when it comes to saves. 

[jownation]

Ahhh, checked the plugins tab and they had all gotten disabled somehow.
That was the problem!

Thank you so much! Working now.