will vortex ever use MO's method of the virtual folders?

[toxsickcity]

I have been having nothing but dramas with using vortex and how the program does symlinks.

 

I like symlinks, its a good way to keep a filesystem from growing as your using the same file in 2 locations. but copying complete installs and setups of games from 1 pc to another is just not happening.
the game copy is fine but thats because via the network copy, the symlinks turn into real files!

so vortex doesnt have control of the files in fallour 4 folder

 

With MO, it was simple. I hope that vortex will use something similar

or can vortex have a button to sync to another PC and setup games remotely.

include copy mods from Source to Destination

maybe a backup and restore.

[Grestorn]

You have to use a copy tool (e.g. RoboCopy) that handles hardlinks correctly while copying and you have to make sure that you copy the mod installation copy as well as the game directory on one go (in a single command) - otherwise the hardlinks cannot be preserved correctly.

 

Or, alternatively, "Purge" all mods, copy, and Redeploy all mods.

 

One thing I've never tried if and how it's possible to copy a Vortex mod database from one installation to another. I imagine that this could be problematic, because of the in transparent database model Vortex uses.

[Tannin42]

Not sure what any of this has to do with symbolic links.

If you want to move the game you just purge, move the game, update the game location in vortex (if it isn't discovered automatically) and then deploy again.

If you want to move vortex itself to a different pc you just have to move the %APPDATA%/vortex directory and all the game-specific mods/downloads directories you customised. Only problem then is that the custom directories need to be in the same path on the new system, otherwise vortex won't find them.

[toxsickcity]

I think Purge needs work it's failed a bunch of times for me.

Might go back to MO for a while

I like vortex and where it's heading.. but it's caused a lot of issues for me personally.

 

If it one day supports that mo VFS I might return