Vortex will not let me change my mod staging folder for No Man's Sky (Ver 1.13.7, Current Stable)

[adaoo7]

I recently decided I would start playing No Man's Sky again and booted up vortex to install a couple of essential mods (No, I do not currently have any installed and my mod-list on vortex is empty). I switched to my NMS profile only to be greeted with this error (Attached file "nms bs.PNG"). Now I have modded NMS before on this PC and I have NEVER had a D drive partition on this PC. I have set my staging folder to a D drive to my I: drive on every one of my profiles as that is my drive for Steam. I was like "k then" and went to change the staging folder to the correct (still existing) no mans sky staging folder in my I: drive where it sits with the rest of my staging folders. The attached image error flashes again multiple times through this process, and the options for deployment method have not changed from the error message (see attached file "cmon bruh.PNG") Indicating that for some reason, this D drive error is also preventing me from actually changing my staging folder. I reboot vortex and sure enough, my staging folder is still set to the non existent D drive directory. Next thing I decided to try was deleting my NMS profile on vortex and starting over again, oops not allowed to do that either (see "really.....PNG". I even tried deleting the profile folder from the roaming vortex folder and nope, just comes right on back. I have no clue how to fix this as I cant even get vortex to stop attempting to manage a bugged profile for 2 seconds so that i can start over again. Any ideas of what the hell this is? The one thing is i dont see a plugin for NMS support in my extensions tab, which I thought may be a cause, but i searched through available extensions and NMS support isnt one of them? does NMS not need a vortex plugin anymore? Im confused.

[ChemBoy1]

Are you using 3rd party antivirus? That is usually the cause of this error. You need to make sure Vortex and all it's folders are excluded from any kind of antivirus and Windows Defender to avoid this. 

Are you using an external drive for Vortex or the game? 

[adaoo7]

24 minutes ago, ChemBoy1 said:

Are you using 3rd party antivirus? That is usually the cause of this error. You need to make sure Vortex and all it's folders are excluded from any kind of antivirus and Windows Defender to avoid this. 

Are you using an external drive for Vortex or the game? 

I have no anti-virus and I have windows defender permanently disabled in the windows registry, sorry definitely not this. and no, no external hard drive. It should be said that every other game that I mod with vortex works flawlessly.