RadoGamer Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 (edited) To Begin I'm not expecting a miracle but I know there must be away too do this. I moved my games to Vortex from Nexus many years ago so this is not a new process for me. Recently my beloved Black Beauty computer (I built her myself) fried. Not sure why but she lived a good life. With that said I was able to salvage my terabyte drives and my internal storage 3tb drive with all my games steam library and vortex files on it. Out of 30 games I'm only going to keep playing ESO stand alone, FONV, FO4 and a couple of others. My FO4 game is extensively modded with a lot of my own mods. So long story short. IS there a way to reinstall Vortex and point it to the new Game data locations to see the mods are installed and tagged with it's own managed by vortex message. I have it's mod folder intact in the original drive and I have moved FO4 along with the other games I'm keeping, with Steam to my new computer drive. I intend to locate the vortex staging folder to the same named folders on the new drive. If there is way to do this with out having to reinstall the mods I would love to know, otherwise any suggestions are welcome and I'm in no hurry. Sooner thatn later would be nice. Thanks, Rado aka John Edited July 30 by RadoGamer Added information Corrected spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showler Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 The only way I know of to do this is to retrieve the information from the AppData folder and transfer it to the new computer. In order for it to work without driving you insane you should use the same Windows account name and same drive letters/folder paths as you had on the old computer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadoGamer Posted July 30 Author Share Posted July 30 (edited) Thanks Showler, App data access on the old drive is possible. account is different thanks to Win 11 drive letter is the same. I'll give it a try anyway. If I install Vortex on the new drive I might try to at least look at the structure and see if I can add the information to the new folder. I'll have to see the structure first. Thanks, Best to you! J I'll keep you posted, when I find out if this will work. Thanks, Edited July 30 by RadoGamer Addition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution RadoGamer Posted August 1 Author Solution Share Posted August 1 (edited) So I decided to painstakingly go through every mod and remove it one at a time manually. About a third of them are mine so I'm going to start there, then move down the list of mods that are in the original vortex installed mods folder and work from there. I have plenty of space on my external 3tb to make an archive of them for re installment. Once I've reached the manually purged state. I'll install Vortex and then move forward. I appreciate your suggestion and know it might work but I only have one external Drive case and I've installed and reinstalled my terabyte drives so often in this process gleaning data, I feel one more time and I may lose the the priority drive if I do it again. So onward and I certainly appreciate you're help Showler! Best to you, J Edited August 1 by RadoGamer mis spelling, mis spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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