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CDonkey

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Sorry guys, I'm a *bit* agitated for the moment but I'm writing in case somebody encounters the same problem and learns from my mistakes :

Long story short I had a complete breakdown of my whole mod list for skyrim SE a few days back, and suddenly without any update, my game is no longer on the managed dashboard in the vortex and when activated everything fails, the whole list is gone, it can't find any tools like fnis and so on.

I open the directory and I encounter... the exe is missing.

I waste a few days redeploying everything one by one and trying to return to a working state - encounter a shitton of problems with deploying mods en mass like some stuff is not just deactivated its uninstalled and I'm sure was using it before. Essential stuff like the address library and JContainers.

Mass deploys (I know, brave of me to even attempt) failing and DELETING stuff from the staging, forcing me to check mod by mod if the data is even there, otherwise, you get proper deployment but just empty directories...

Suddenly today it happens again... again starting vortex the game is unmanaged, when activated spills the same errors and the exe is missing...

This time before I waste days redeploying hundreds of mods... I check avast... and behold:

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no messages, no indication of anything, the damned thing nuked my game 3 times.

Sooooo lessons ?

Never use avast.

If your game is suddenly unmanaged under ANY circumstances do not try to activate it because the whole list goes in flames.

Never deploy more than a few mods at the same time.

Do not be stupid like me.

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Couldn't you report the issue to Avast!  So that they could find a way for Avast to white list those specific files, or so that they could talk with the people at Nexusmods?  There might be an actual vulnerability that Avast is picking up on and that needs to be addressed, or Avast can write some code so that their anti virus can recognize that a specific type of file isn't always malware...

In the meantime, there should be a way for you to whitelist the specific files that Avast sandboxes, disables, or deletes.

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the problem was that I never got a message that it was moving the file at all... I used to have it before, but nothing now.

As for it being a real problem - not impossible but I doubt it.

Edited by CDonkey
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