Cicada3301 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 If your location of appdata\Roaming folder changed (for example, to another drive) vortex think that appdata\local location changed too, and saving files which are describing loaded plugins in wrong place, so game (in my case - fallout) dont loading installed plugins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joetraincool4 Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Can confirm, altered the location of my Roaming folder to another drive. Even though mods appear installed in the game directory, they will not appear in-game. Tested with Fallout 3 and 4 on clean install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grestorn Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Could you please open a command shell and enter the two commands echo %appdata% and echo %localappdata% and make a screenshot of the outcome and post it here please? On my system (as an example) it looks like this: And then please tell us how you changed the location of those folders (I know how to do it, I just want to know how you actually did it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Oh, yeah, I can confirm this would happen. Please make sure you create a feedback report. The problem is: electron has functionality to get at special OS paths but it supports only the AppData\Roaming folder, not AppData\Local, so Vortex uses a relative path from roaming to get at local, I didn't consider you may be moving roaming without also moving local. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grestorn Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Ah, now I know why you chose to use AppData\roaming ... :)Is there no access to native Win32 functions in electron? To call GetPath() directly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joetraincool4 Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Alright, here's the specific paths. Although technically local can be moved in properties, it has system files so windows flags it and stops the operation. Also, don't bite my head off too bad for moving my roaming folder to my Program Files instead of created a specific Roaming folder on another drive. Lessons learned, amiright? Also, already sent a feedback ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grestorn Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Not biting anyone's head of :smile: In my experience, it's better to leave the standard folder structure intact. Not just because some Apps have problems with a different layout, it can also always happen that MS themselves screw up. Have you read about the issue with the latest Win10 upgrade (to 1809) deleting people's documents? The bug only occured if someone relocated their documents folder some place else and then, later, relocated it back its default location. This very specific situation wasn't tested properly (no wonder, it's rather peculiar), and boom - a nasty bug caused the upgrade procedure to delete all you documents. I'm becoming more and more conservative with altering my installation (any, not just Windows) too much, because I know that the more "unusual" a setup is, the more likely is that a bug affecting MY specific setup crept through testing. The amount to test is just mind-boggling these days. So get a large enough disk drive for C:\ and keep your standard folders where they belong. You can still put your games and whatnot on other drives, but leave your Windows the way MS meant it to be. Just a good advice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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