Failed to deploy mods?

[Tannin42]

Hrmm, unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out this error yet.

What happens: Vortex needs to apply some changes to your ini files (Skyrim.ini/SkyrimPrefs.ini in C:\Users\<username>\Documents\my games\Skyrim Special Edition) and it tries to do this in such a way

that it doesn't irreversibly overrides your customizations to those files and still keeps changes made from inside the game.

 

I don't want to go into too much detail but it requires two copies of each ini file to do this properly so with vortex you will have

- Skyrim.ini

- Skyrim.ini.base

- Skyrim.ini.baked

- SkyrimPrefs.ini

- SkyrimPrefs.ini.base

- SkyrimPrefs.ini.baked

 

During deployment vortex needs to copy Skyrim.ini.baked -> Skyrim.ini

The error you're getting says that those are the same file meaning not just the same contents but the exact same file. This would only happen if you try to copy x -> x or if one is a hard link of the other.

Vortex doesn't create hard-links of these files and I doubt you did so manually so I can't really understand why that is.

 

The only other explanation I could come up with is that the detection fails. To tell if the two files are the same, vortex asks the operating system for an internal identification number of the file and then compares

if both files have the same id. If the files are on some special device like onedrive, a mounted truecrypt volume or something like that it could be that on such a drive files don't have an internal id so they'd all be identified as the same.

Can either of you think of something that is special about the directory that contains your C:\Users\<username>\Documents\my games\Skyrim Special Edition directory?

 

What you could also try is:

1. close vortex

2. check if skyrim.ini.base exists (and isn't empty)

3a. if it does, delete skyrim.ini and skyrim.ini.baked and rename skyrim.ini.base -> skyrim.ini

3b. if it doesn't, delete skyrim.ini.baked

4. repeat steps 2 and 3 for skyrimprefs.ini

 

Now restart vortex and see if the error still occurs (for this game).

Whether it does or not, please post the result here.

[Tannin42]

Actually, I've come up with another potential cause for this: If neither skyrim.ini nor skyrim.ini.baked exists they would also have the same internal id "undefined". This case obviously needs to be handled separately.

 

So if you find you don't have a skyrim.ini or skyrimprefs.ini, try if the problem disappears if you create an empty file with that name.

[Grestorn]

skyrim.ini isn't created by default in the VR version! Just as a hint.

[mendezcasariego]

Hrmm, unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out this error yet.

What happens: Vortex needs to apply some changes to your ini files (Skyrim.ini/SkyrimPrefs.ini in C:\Users\<username>\Documents\my games\Skyrim Special Edition) and it tries to do this in such a way

that it doesn't irreversibly overrides your customizations to those files and still keeps changes made from inside the game.

 

I don't want to go into too much detail but it requires two copies of each ini file to do this properly so with vortex you will have

- Skyrim.ini

- Skyrim.ini.base

- Skyrim.ini.baked

- SkyrimPrefs.ini

- SkyrimPrefs.ini.base

- SkyrimPrefs.ini.baked

 

During deployment vortex needs to copy Skyrim.ini.baked -> Skyrim.ini

The error you're getting says that those are the same file meaning not just the same contents but the exact same file. This would only happen if you try to copy x -> x or if one is a hard link of the other.

Vortex doesn't create hard-links of these files and I doubt you did so manually so I can't really understand why that is.

 

The only other explanation I could come up with is that the detection fails. To tell if the two files are the same, vortex asks the operating system for an internal identification number of the file and then compares

if both files have the same id. If the files are on some special device like onedrive, a mounted truecrypt volume or something like that it could be that on such a drive files don't have an internal id so they'd all be identified as the same.

Can either of you think of something that is special about the directory that contains your C:\Users\<username>\Documents\my games\Skyrim Special Edition directory?

 

What you could also try is:

1. close vortex

2. check if skyrim.ini.base exists (and isn't empty)

3a. if it does, delete skyrim.ini and skyrim.ini.baked and rename skyrim.ini.base -> skyrim.ini

3b. if it doesn't, delete skyrim.ini.baked

4. repeat steps 2 and 3 for skyrimprefs.ini

 

Now restart vortex and see if the error still occurs (for this game).

Whether it does or not, please post the result here.

 

Im having the same problem, Tried what you are saying but it didnt work.