GatitoItalia Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Hello, Im having issues with Vortex/collections when its tries to download off-site mods, i already downloaded them and installed, but still insist in downloading em by itself making it crash or be stuck on Mega cr*p metod of downloading. If I cancel the download it makes the colecction to stop, pressing resume makes it start asking for the same mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortexposer Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 (edited) That sounds like its linked metadata isn't set up correctly. Is it your own collection/draft or public? Edited March 17 by vortexposer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemBoy1 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 For mods not on Nexus Mods, there is no reliable way to verify if you already had the mod installed because Vortex has no metadata to confirm the mod's identity. So yes, it's gonna download them again. The only way to avoid this would be to make a metadata server for every source of the mods to provide reliable metadata to Vortex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortexposer Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 (edited) If their source constantly changes (like ENB), yeah but there's plenty of other curation-based errors which are also easily preventable... Provide e.g. of exact info Vortex is expecting in .json vs the installed state (mods tab panel), to help determine what specific issue is. Edited March 18 by vortexposer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemBoy1 Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 It doesn't really matter where they came from (i.e. what website). It matters what's inside the archive. Mods from Nexus are verified by their contents. You can see this easily by downloading an archive manually from Nexus and then dragging and dropping the zip into Vortex. It will install the mod and retrieve it's metadata from the site. It does this by looking at the archive size and calculating a hash. Sometimes, mods from other sources will retrieve Nexus Mods metadata because they happen to match a mod on the site. If Vortex does not have a data source, it cannot assign any identity to the mod. And there is therefore no way to confirm its identity. And therefore it will download the mod from the collection again. https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/Vortex/blob/a0f26d3a2d702c59300ec77b80caa68b19d208ad/src/util/ExtensionManager.ts#L1693 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Pickysaurus Posted March 19 Community Manager Share Posted March 19 Off-site mods are matched by MD5, however, Vortex cannot know the MD5 until it's downloaded. If the MD5 of the file you already have in Vortex doesn't match the one the collection requires it will download again. You should contact the curator of the collection if this issue persists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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