Vortex Stuck On Purging

[RadicalDreamerX]

Vortex version: Whichever is the most recent - I keep it up to date

Game modding - Skyrim AE

Mod list - A lot

So this just started happening recently. I mod Skyrim AE heavily, and have the game and my mods staging folder on an external hard drive (not enough room on the lappy). I am used to the constant purging and all that; don't really care since it doesn't typically take too long of a time.

But now, every time Vortex purges my mods, it gets stuck at about 35% of the way through and stops completely. It's still trying to purge, but nothing happens. I even went to sleep and woke up the next morning, and it was in the same spot. And now, as of this typing, it's getting stuck at pre-deployment events and not doing anything.

This started yesterday afternoon, and it's making Vortex essentially unusable right now. Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: It finished its pre-deployment events run; just took a while. So it deploys fine. It just refuses to purge.

[7531Leonidas]

Did you make sure that the external drive is formatted as NTFS?  This can cause problems all by itself.

[ChemBoy1]

Yes, the external drive must be NTFS formatted to have any hope of working. Also, external drives are known to be unreliable with Vortex mod deployment due to Windows OS limitations. 

[RadicalDreamerX]

Hmmm. The drive is formatted NTFS, has been since I got it around three months ago.

Like I said, just started happening recently. I'll keep tinkering with it, I guess. Have several modded games on external drives, and have for a while. This is my first issue.

[vortexposer]

What happens when switching to a new/empty profile?

[RadicalDreamerX]

It swaps fine to other profiles. It even purges just fine on other profiles.

Heck, it purges other games just fine on the SAME external hard drive, It's literally just doing this with Skyrim AE.

I read somewhere that deleting the "skyrimse" folder in AppData\Vortex may fix this. Haven't done it yet, but will it help? As I understand it, that's where the settings are for this profile.

[ChemBoy1]

  On 3/15/2025 at 1:47 PM, RadicalDreamerX said:

It swaps fine to other profiles. It even purges just fine on other profiles.

Heck, it purges other games just fine on the SAME external hard drive, It's literally just doing this with Skyrim AE.

I read somewhere that deleting the "skyrimse" folder in AppData\Vortex may fix this. Haven't done it yet, but will it help? As I understand it, that's where the settings are for this profile.

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If you are OK with wiping your data for the game, you can delete that folder. You'd have to re-install all your mods from archives. Make sure you Stop Managing the game in Vortex before deleting. 

[showler]

Worth noting that you can RENAME the folder to keep it as a backup rather than outright deleting it.  Just in case it doesn't actually fix the issue and you want to revert.

[RadicalDreamerX]

Oof, no thanks.

Oddly enough, it's purging fine again.

However, now when I deploy mods, it keeps re-deploying all the files I have. Didn't used to do that; just a deploy and it was fine.

But, a different topic for a different thread. Thankyou everyone for responding!