Vortex created a huge folder in one of my icons folders - can I delete it?

[leifyjai]

I see that Vortex created two strangely named folders ("r1j-phduf.png" and "r1P_3hOdf.png") inside of my Appdata\Roaming\Vortex\skyrimse\icons folder. The first one is about 2.5Mb and contains a couple of folders and some files, my DualSheathRedux.jar file & some other stuff.

 

The second one, "r1P_3hOdf.png" is 37.6Gb, and seems to contain a partial copy of my entire Skyrim SE game folder!? My actual Skyrim SE game folder is 61.5Gb, so it is incomplete, but at first glance it looks like all my Skyrim game stuff, launchers executables, Data and other directories, bunches of plugins and .esm files, the works. If I hadn't compared the size to my actual directory and found it to be about half, I would have thought it the entire game folder, duplicated with a weird name.

 

So, what the heck is this huge folder, and why is Vortex putting it in my skyrimse\icons folder??? Can I delete it safely? Will it be recreated? What is it for??? Seems like a huge waste of space to me. I thought the icons folder was just for setting up apps, like Wrye Bash and Loot, on the dashboard for my game (Skyrim SE in this case.)

 

I checked to see if these were symbolic links, and they appear to be actual files, wasting a total of over 30Gb of space.

 

Seems like a bug to me. Attached is a partial screenshot showing the folder info.

[Tannin42]

Which version of Vortex are you using?

There was a bug up to 0.13.6 where if went to the tool edit dialog on the dashboard, clicked the button to change the tool icon, selected a directory and confirmed, Vortex would actually try to use that path as an icon (which means copying it).

Starting with 0.14 Vortex does some validation on the selection.

It would appear you're either still using an older version of vortex or you did this (at least twice?) when you still were. It's safe to delete those directories, the icons directory should contain only files.

[leifyjai]

Ok, well it looks like from the date stamp that I would have been using v0.13.3 at that time, so if the problem existed prior to 0.13.6, then that is probably it. I'm going to go ahead and delete both folders then. Thanks!