How to fix Cyclic Rules Error when you've messed up the Groups in Manage Groups?

[duckyduckyquackquack]

What is the quickest and easiest way to undo and reset the Groups in Plugins back to defaults if you've absolutely messed things up terribly trying to get custom groups to load mods in set places of your load order and now Vortex just tells me Mods can not be sorted because Cyclic Rules, it tells me to change my custom rules, but in Manage Rules I have nothing listed, so it must be down to the Groups I have tried creating, then deleted and now every mod plugin is listed in 'default' group, but still I get the error when trying to sort.

[Tannin42]

Vortex currently has no way of resetting groups (though that is something we should probably add).

 

The best way to reset now is to close vortex, then find your userlist.yaml file in

C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\vortex\<game id>

or, if you're using shared mode

c:\programdata\<game id>

 

edit the file and remove the block starting with "groups:" and the lines below that are indented (usually this should be up to the end of the file)

Then in the "plugins:" block you should also remove all the indented "group:" lines.

So if your file looks like this:

 

globals: []
plugins:
  - name: somethingsomething.esp
    after: []
  - name: sillyplugin.esp
    group: sillygroup
  - name: boringplugin.esp
    group: default
groups:
  - name: sillygroup
    after:
      - default

you turn it into

globals: []
plugins:
  - name: somethingsomething.esp
    after: []
  - name: sillyplugin.esp
  - name: boringplugin.esp

Be very careful please that you don't change any of the lines you keep, even the indentation has to remain exactly as it was.

[Goffender]

Thankyou Tannin, I have this issue and i'm not even trying to use groups. I did set some load order rules. Would actually be cool if we could just change the load order number for us ignorant users, lol.

I'm trying to get up to speed though. Or at least when there is the cyclic rule error if we could go to that rule easier. I have gotten to the place where you can delete the "bar" that connects??? but i cant find that atm.