schwartzpedro Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 Hey guys, if I unninstall F4, but keep NMM and my downloaded mods intact, when I re-install F4, can I re-scan and re-install the mods or I have to download everything again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill8872 Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 The downloaded mods are in a different location, so unistalling the mods, then FO4 will be fine. Just backup your .ini, and perf files first.I did this yesterday, but for some reason NMM will not let me reinstall any mod. I get a error of some type I do not understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royhr Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 Well your mods are installed in your data folder. So before uninstalling FO4 you could copy the data folder out of the Fallout 4 folder. Then after reinstalling you could move the data folder back. Then your mods will be there and NMM will see and show the mods in the pluggins window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark47 Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Well your mods are installed in your data folder. So before uninstalling FO4 you could copy the data folder out of the Fallout 4 folder. Then after reinstalling you could move the data folder back. Then your mods will be there and NMM will see and show the mods in the pluggins window. Careful with that. Sometimes the mods use, besides the esp files, texture, mesh, sound (etc) files that will be in their respective folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirTwist Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 This is why Mod Organizer is better than NMM. MO doesn't store anything in the Data folder, it does a good job with virtualization, and keeps things nice and clean for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royhr Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Well your mods are installed in your data folder. So before uninstalling FO4 you could copy the data folder out of the Fallout 4 folder. Then after reinstalling you could move the data folder back. Then your mods will be there and NMM will see and show the mods in the pluggins window. Careful with that. Sometimes the mods use, besides the esp files, texture, mesh, sound (etc) files that will be in their respective folders. True however those folders are in the data folder. So if you backup the data folder you are also backing up those files as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royhr Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 This is why Mod Organizer is better than NMM. MO doesn't store anything in the Data folder, it does a good job with virtualization, and keeps things nice and clean for you.Well I'll agree that MO has some very good advantages and can be good for some people but there is quite a bit of a learning curb with it. I like to think that I'm somewhat knowledgeable as far as installing mods and when I tried using MO with FONV it was just too much work figuring everything out as far as I was concerned so I just stayed with FOMM or did manual installs. Some people have problems figuring out and using NMM which in comparisons is pretty easy to use. But again yes the one big advantage was or is the fact that it doesn't store anything in the data folder. That was nice but not enough for me to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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