Moving Steam & Vortex to a new SSD

[davidwalshireland]

I've decided to move Steam and Vortex to a dedicated ssd

So I wonder can I just copy the 'downloads' folder with the archives to the new ssd?

Or should I 'Install From File' to import them into the relocated Vortex install?

Or should I redownload?

 

What is best way to do this for Vortex?

 

Thanks

[Rattledagger]

In case you've just added an extra hd/ssd, the easiest is to startup Vortex, go to settings, change download-path to new location and Vortex will move all the downloads for you. If not mistaken you can do the same for /mods/-folder and let Vortex move things for you.

 

It's the same with Steam, just add a new steam-library on the extra hd/ssd and you can use Steam to move one (or more) of the Steam-games to this new location.

 

If for some reason you've re-installed Vortex to a non-default location, I've no idea how Vortex saves the settings etc., but if moving inside Vortex doesn't work you must first configure downloads-directory for so afterwards moving the files to this new downloads-directory, since Vortex apparently doesn't like to use a directory already present. After all downloads has been moved, re-start Vortex and all the downloads should be detected. You'll lose any Nexus-id and other information this way, but this is a small price to pay to not have to re-download anything.

[davidwalshireland]

My plan is to reinstall Steam and Vortex on the new drive; and I was thinking to simply copy over the downloads folder from the old install; but if that means losing the nexus metadata then I would prefer to re-download the mods; it's not that many; still in the early stages of building the game.

Thanks