Simply feedback and a cry for help

[Qvintusdk]

Vortex seem like a pretty good mod manager... but please, as someone with not enough disk space, give the users the option to delete downloaded .zip/7z/rar files after the manager has installed it.
Currently Vortex essentially stores the same mod 3 places. I can understand storing it 2 places, one place to be able to disable/enable and in the actual game folder.
The 3rd however is a little too much redundancy I recon, I'd really much rather download a mod again if needed, than have Vortex spam me with not enough disk space, only for me to have like 300+ uninstalled mods I am not quite sure of which I can delete from the vortex download folder 

Feedback written in frustration, thanks for maybe reading

[Qvintusdk]

To make matters worse, by removing uninstalled mod zip files I am (pretty sure) removing them from my uninstalled mods list, so now I have to go back to figure out what mods I accidentally removed before proper installation.

[Qvintusdk]

39 minutes ago, showler said:

You can remove the archive files after installing, but you won't be able to reinstall without redownloading.

And mods are not installed in three places.  There's the archive in the downloads folder, the installed files in the staging folder, and links to those installed files in the game folder.  The links in the game folder do not take up any real amount of space, they are just links not the actual files.

Do tell me how I can reliably select and delete mod files that HAS been installed from those that HASN'T, that's the whole problem when you have hundreds of uninstalled mods waiting their turn.
I could look at each enabled mod individually in Vortex yes, but that is tedious as all hell to do that and then go to the download folder to delete every zip/7z/rar one at a time.

Please read a message properly before coming with a "solution".
Ok, right so it stores the mods 2 places then. Even if I'm pretty sure you're wrong, my PC seem to treat the staging folder and the files in the game folder as 2 different files, taking up essentially double to disk space.
Regardless, it should be simple for the developers of Vortex to add an option for the user to delete installed zip/7z/rar files.

Edit: reading up on hardlinked files seem to at least point towards you being right about the actual game files not taking as much space.
Regardless disk space is an issue for me and from what google tells me a lot of other people.

[Qvintusdk]

Guess I suck at explaining or you just don't wanna get the point, because you keep missing.

Regardless I am now working on making a Vortex Extension that fixes the issue.