Vortex Extension Issues

[alrightfck]

Vortex (current and up-to-date) keeps automatically downloading extensions for Baldur’s Gate 3 and No Man’s Sky, two games I do not even own, every time I start the app. I can delete them both, and they will automatically be redownloaded when I launch the app again.

How do I stop and prevent this?

(Am using current version of Windows 10 x64)

[showler]

You don't.  They're part of the program.

[alrightfck]

If it was an integrated part of the program, you wouldn't have the option to delete it at all. Previous versions of Vortex did not automatically redownload them after removal either, and they are clearly not requirements for operation of the base program.

Edited May 7 by alrightfck

[showler]

They're extensions so they can be updated without forcing an update of the entire program.

They can be deleted so that if something is wrong with them then you can force a re-download to fix it.

All versions of Vortex automatically re-download any extensions that are part of the program and not an optional extension.  If an extension gets moved from "optional" to "part of the program" then it will automatically re-download.

You can't stop it from happening.  You shouldn't try to stop it from happening.  It's not a problem.  They're tiny.

Leave them alone.

[alrightfck]

My issue isn't that of the space they occupy, I know they're insignificant in size. 

My issue is that of OCD, and that I don't want them there, and that they have no reason to be there. "Leave them alone" is not a solution for me.

Furthermore, I do not believe it is unreasonable to desire the capacity to choose what content does and doesn't live on my personal computer.

Edited May 7 by alrightfck

[showler]

Yes.  It is.

You download Microsoft Word, you get support for every file format Microsoft Word supports.  You don't get to pick and choose whether or not you have RTF support or only DOC support.  It's part of the program, so you get it.

The only difference here is that you can see it.

Maybe, someday, those two extensions will join the rest of the included ones under the "show bundled" button and you won't have to look at them any more.

But it's absurd to expect them to change the functioning of the program to suit you.  However you deal with all the other things you can't control...you'll need to apply those same techniques here.

[alrightfck]

Again, I have to fundamentally disagree with the part about it being "part of the program." If it was a fundamental piece of the application, you wouldn't have the option to remove it. It's not a requirement, it's not a necessity, it's not something that has to be there for the application to function. These extensions are add-ons that they've chosen to include by default, for one reason or another. I can, and already have deleted them off of the machine, it's just when I remove them from the extensions list, Vortex decides to download them again.

It's considerably absurd for a total stranger to tell me that yes, it is unreasonable for me to get to choose what's on my own computer. We're not talking about file formats in Microsoft Word, or back-end scripts in some banking platform. These are compatability extensions for modifying specific videogames, in a piece of software where extensions are otherwise completely optional and/or customizable. 

[showler]

You don't have the option to remove them.  You have the option to force a re-download of them.   That's why you made this thread.  If you had the option to remove them then you wouldn't be asking for the option to remove them.

These two extensions are no different from the literally dozens of other game extensions that are bundled with the program and hidden from your view.  They are part of the program and are only formatted as extensions so they can be updated without updating the entire program.

Bottom line is that they are not going to make the program work worse for everyone else in order to accommodate you.

[ChemBoy1]

It truly boggles the mind how people cannot understand that the built-in Extensions are part of the core program and should be left alone.

The sole purpose of the ability to "remove" them is to force a redownload of the latest version, if you had some issue with auto updates. 

Showler is 100% correct in everything he's said. 

[alrightfck]

Again, considering the fact that I have literally deleted both of these extensions, without initializing the auto-redownload, and the application still functions 100% as otherwise intended, that is absolute and total proof that these are not part of the "core program," but additional functionalities forced into the extensions menu. 

I do indeed understand the functional purpose and convenience of having such an auto-redownload feature, but having this implemented for these 2 specific games, and no option to enable them for the extensions of whatever games you choose, is questionable at best. Especially if those games are not even detected on the device.

I never made some arbitrary request for the developers to "make the program worse," and as it just so happens, when you right click your extensions, there is no "auto-redownload" button. What does that button say? "Remove." 

Now, I'm NOT straight up saying this definitely isn't the intended functionality of those 2 very specific extensions by the developers, but you would imagine they would label it as such if it was.

 

Considering the fact that seemingly neither of you are developers or admins with legitimate insight into the decision making processes of these things, in addition to the fact that I'm repeatedly deconstructing your (lack of) logic and reasoning, I would have to say whatever remaining input you have is very likely going to be devoid of any value whatsoever. 

If an actual admin chooses to chime in, that would be legitimately helpful. If not, than yes, I do in fact have the capacity to just ignore and forget about it.