Vortex Profile Deleted

[YAKgamer]

Hello,

I have recently opened the Vortex Mod Manager and have found that my main profile with 600+ mods enabled has been simply deleted.

 

I checked the profiles folder and it turns out that it's missing the "loadorder.txt" and the "plugins.txt" (image provided).

 

Some information:
- My nexus profile is "YAKgamer"
- The game in question is Skyrim SE
- All my mods are still available to enable however, I don't think I'll be able to remember all mods I had enabled, nor the order they were in, hence why I need the profile back

 

Would it be possible in any way to recover the lost profile? It contains about 3 years of adding mods. I'd appreciate the help.

Best regards

[Pickysaurus]

Vortex doesn't do this by itself. What did you do last time it was opened? Did you swap from per user to shared mode in settings? Did you put your staging folder inside the Vortex install folder? Did you get any new notifications after starting up? 

[YAKgamer]

  On 7/3/2024 at 5:16 PM, Pickysaurus said:

Vortex doesn't do this by itself. What did you do last time it was opened? Did you swap from per user to shared mode in settings? Did you put your staging folder inside the Vortex install folder? Did you get any new notifications after starting up? 

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Nothing of the sorts happened. I launched vortex, clicked on my profile, and the next thing I knew my old profile was gone and it had renamed one of my other profiles to "Default" and chose that one for me. I'm not sure how that's possible to be honest, but that's what happened. Is there any way to recover the lost profile?

[Pickysaurus]

So you saw the profile in the UI when you started up and then it was gone? Perhaps you hit delete by mistake? 

Unfortunately if this is the case deleting a profile is not reversible. 

[YAKgamer]

  On 7/3/2024 at 7:24 PM, Pickysaurus said:

So you saw the profile in the UI when you started up and then it was gone? Perhaps you hit delete by mistake? 

Unfortunately if this is the case deleting a profile is not reversible. 

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Maybe? But I don't remember deleting it. I've tried every single recovery tool I could think of but nothing worked.

Are you sure there is absolutely nothing I can do? Nothing?

[Pickysaurus]

I'm afraid so. Profiles are gone forever if they get deleted. The mods should still be in Vortex though, just not enabled on your default profile. 

[showler]

Isn't there a function in the save games section that re-enables the mods that were active on a particular save?

[Pickysaurus]

  On 7/4/2024 at 7:36 AM, showler said:

Isn't there a function in the save games section that re-enables the mods that were active on a particular save?

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Yes, this is an option. Obviously this only covers plugins (not mods without plugins) 

[YAKgamer]

  On 7/4/2024 at 9:43 AM, Pickysaurus said:

Yes, this is an option. Obviously this only covers plugins (not mods without plugins) 

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I did end up doing that, yes. However, I'm still missing about 200 mods. I've been trying to re-enable some but it's been quite difficult. It's a little depressing, but I'll manage. Thanks for your help though.

[Gho5tSpartan26]

  On 7/3/2024 at 12:40 PM, YAKgamer said:

Hello,

I have recently opened the Vortex Mod Manager and have found that my main profile with 600+ mods enabled has been simply deleted.

 

I checked the profiles folder and it turns out that it's missing the "loadorder.txt" and the "plugins.txt" (image provided).

 

Some information:
- My nexus profile is "YAKgamer"
- The game in question is Skyrim SE
- All my mods are still available to enable however, I don't think I'll be able to remember all mods I had enabled, nor the order they were in, hence why I need the profile back

 

Would it be possible in any way to recover the lost profile? It contains about 3 years of adding mods. I'd appreciate the help.

Best regards

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Yea I had all of my mods working with around 140 ish on a good profile and the main save i played on, I took a break for a week and came back to vortex saying lots of crap like a YAML file was missing, missing masters, SKSE isnt there yet it IS. Nothing was done over that week break, I had my modding stuff running fine for almost a month then Vortex randomly messed it up. I tried looking on forums to fix it and tried everything I could find and when trying a copy vortex folder method it deleting my profile so now i have to sift through over 200+ mods and find out the 140 ish working ones with no conflicts to get back to my playthrough. When I was trying to fix it, it would CTD on loading my save but would load a new one if made but no animations worked and i was t posed, too much stuff. Loot and Pandora didnt mention any issues. Hopefully I can play again once i get these mods back to working, Skyrim is the only game other than Dragon's Dogma  I will ALWAYS find myself coming back to.