Vortex installs on my desired drive however...

[dw053408]

I've spent a fair amount of time searching these and other forums and have come close to my issue but I have yet to find an answer to my particular problem.

I'll outline the problem and steps I have taken below to make it as concise as I can.

 

Fallout 4 (the game I am using mods with) is installed on drive G which is where I always install my games.

 

I understand that Vortex needs the mods installed to the drive that the game is installed on, so I downloaded and installed the "custom installer" option for this reason.

 

After installing Vortex to G, I then execute the Vortex exe. which in turn instantly creates a new Vortex folder in the C drive, this seems to be the root of the problem.

 

In order to get around this issue (as I do not know of any other way) I cut/paste the entire folder to a new location within the G drive, selected this new location as the download/install destination within my Vortex settings. This seems to work as a current workaround, however it does not seem like a sustainable fix as Vortex notices that there is more than one instance of a mod, the cause of this being that whenever I launch the Vortex exe. the Vortex folder is instantly recreated in the C drive.

 

Although I have been able to use most of the mods (OWR-B is not working), at a minimum using the workaround causes me to have two separate Vortex folders that each hold copies of the mods, which is kind of ridiculous.

 

On another note the latest update to Vortex deleted every mod that I had installed and applied to the game.

I understand that this is likely already being addressed, I simply want to throw that in as another issue.

 

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

[HadToRegister]

So, in SETTINGS--->MODS

 

you set something like Mod Staging Folder - G:\Games\Mods\

And set SETTINGS---------->DOWNLOAD to something like G:\Games\Downloads\

 

?

[dw053408]

So, in SETTINGS--->MODS

 

you set something like Mod Staging Folder - G:\Games\Mods\

And set SETTINGS---------->DOWNLOAD to something like G:\Games\Downloads\

 

?

 

Correct, I cut/pasted the Vortex folder (which is separate from the Black Tree Gaming folder which contains the exe) that is normally found within users->"me"->AppData->Roaming, into my G drive. That is where I set the "staging/download" destinations.

[chanchan05]

Don't cut and paste. Just make a new empty folder and point Vortex to that. You don't really need the custom installer (I have Vortex installed on C and the mods and game on D). You just have to point Vortex to download and unpack in the same drive as the game.

 

Basically, open Vortex, go to Settings>Mods>create an install path in the same drive as where your game is installed (mine is D/Gaming/Vortex/Skyrim). Make an empty folder to point to if you need to. Then go to Download tab and set the download location (mine is D/Gaming/Vortex/Download - it would create it's own separate folders per game there). DO NOT point them to the folders where your mods are currently installed. Make new ones.

 

If you have existing downloaded mod archives DO NOT copy and paste them into the folders. Open Vortex, then drag the already downloaded mod archives into the drop files box in the mods tab. Wait for the files to be imported, then you can delete the old files (Vortex will have copied them into it's own folder structure).

[HadToRegister]

 

So, in SETTINGS--->MODS

 

you set something like Mod Staging Folder - G:\Games\Mods\

And set SETTINGS---------->DOWNLOAD to something like G:\Games\Downloads\

 

?

 

Correct, I cut/pasted the Vortex folder (which is separate from the Black Tree Gaming folder which contains the exe) that is normally found within users->"me"->AppData->Roaming, into my G drive. That is where I set the "staging/download" destinations.

 

 

So, why would you do that?

Surely, when you went to the Vortex Appdata folder, you saw a ton of other folders in the appdata folder that belong to other programs that you haven't copied into their main folders on another drive, so WHY would you even consider something "normal" that you would do with Vortex?

 

Vortex isn't installing mods to the Appdata folder, it's storing the INFO that it needs (like a LOT of other programs you have installed) to sort and manage your mods, in the appdata folder, and here you are copying and pasting it into your G drive

 

 

I should probably tell you not to look in C:\Program Data\Vortex, otherwise you'll copy all of the Vortex info from THAT folder to your G drive too.

[HadToRegister]

Don't cut and paste. Just make a new empty folder and point Vortex to that. You don't really need the custom installer (I have Vortex installed on C and the mods and game on D). You just have to point Vortex to download and unpack in the same drive as the game.

 

Basically, open Vortex, go to Settings>Mods>create an install path in the same drive as where your game is installed (mine is D/Gaming/Vortex/Skyrim). Make an empty folder to point to if you need to. Then go to Download tab and set the download location (mine is D/Gaming/Vortex/Download - it would create it's own separate folders per game there). DO NOT point them to the folders where your mods are currently installed. Make new ones.

 

If you have existing downloaded mod archives DO NOT copy and paste them into the folders. Open Vortex, then drag the already downloaded mod archives into the drop files box in the mods tab. Wait for the files to be imported, then you can delete the old files (Vortex will have copied them into it's own folder structure).

 

He's talking about the default Folders that Vortex and other programs installed on Windows makes in the AppDATA, to STORE THEIR DATA AND INFO, (there's a reason why the folder is called "APP DATA" folder)

[dw053408]

Don't cut and paste. Just make a new empty folder and point Vortex to that. You don't really need the custom installer (I have Vortex installed on C and the mods and game on D). You just have to point Vortex to download and unpack in the same drive as the game.

 

Basically, open Vortex, go to Settings>Mods>create an install path in the same drive as where your game is installed (mine is D/Gaming/Vortex/Skyrim). Make an empty folder to point to if you need to. Then go to Download tab and set the download location (mine is D/Gaming/Vortex/Download - it would create it's own separate folders per game there). DO NOT point them to the folders where your mods are currently installed. Make new ones.

 

If you have existing downloaded mod archives DO NOT copy and paste them into the folders. Open Vortex, then drag the already downloaded mod archives into the drop files box in the mods tab. Wait for the files to be imported, then you can delete the old files (Vortex will have copied them into it's own folder structure).

Fair enough.

 

I understand now that it doesn't really matter where Vortex and its exe. folder are installed.

 

Thanks for walking me through that so that it made a little more sense in my mind.

hopefully I wont have anymore issues.

[HadToRegister]

 

Don't cut and paste. Just make a new empty folder and point Vortex to that. You don't really need the custom installer (I have Vortex installed on C and the mods and game on D). You just have to point Vortex to download and unpack in the same drive as the game.

 

Basically, open Vortex, go to Settings>Mods>create an install path in the same drive as where your game is installed (mine is D/Gaming/Vortex/Skyrim). Make an empty folder to point to if you need to. Then go to Download tab and set the download location (mine is D/Gaming/Vortex/Download - it would create it's own separate folders per game there). DO NOT point them to the folders where your mods are currently installed. Make new ones.

 

If you have existing downloaded mod archives DO NOT copy and paste them into the folders. Open Vortex, then drag the already downloaded mod archives into the drop files box in the mods tab. Wait for the files to be imported, then you can delete the old files (Vortex will have copied them into it's own folder structure).

Fair enough.

 

I understand now that it doesn't really matter where Vortex and its exe. folder are installed.

 

Thanks for walking me through that so that it made a little more sense in my mind.

hopefully I wont have anymore issues.

 

 

 

DO NOT, copy and paste your APPDATA Folder where Vortex stores it's info, to your G drive.

[dw053408]

 

 

So, in SETTINGS--->MODS

 

you set something like Mod Staging Folder - G:\Games\Mods\

And set SETTINGS---------->DOWNLOAD to something like G:\Games\Downloads\

 

?

 

Correct, I cut/pasted the Vortex folder (which is separate from the Black Tree Gaming folder which contains the exe) that is normally found within users->"me"->AppData->Roaming, into my G drive. That is where I set the "staging/download" destinations.

 

 

So, why would you do that?

Surely, when you went to the Vortex Appdata folder, you saw a ton of other folders in the appdata folder that belong to other programs that you haven't copied into their main folders on another drive, so WHY would you even consider something "normal" that you would do with Vortex?

 

Vortex isn't installing mods to the Appdata folder, it's storing the INFO that it needs (like a LOT of other programs you have installed) to sort and manage your mods, in the appdata folder, and here you are copying and pasting it into your G drive

 

 

I should probably tell you not to look in C:\Program Data\Vortex, otherwise you'll copy all of the Vortex info from THAT folder to your G drive too.

 

 

HadToRegister - Thanks for the knee-jerk condescension, you've really lived up to the forum troll stereotype quite nicely.

[HadToRegister]

 

 

 

So, in SETTINGS--->MODS

 

you set something like Mod Staging Folder - G:\Games\Mods\

And set SETTINGS---------->DOWNLOAD to something like G:\Games\Downloads\

 

?

 

Correct, I cut/pasted the Vortex folder (which is separate from the Black Tree Gaming folder which contains the exe) that is normally found within users->"me"->AppData->Roaming, into my G drive. That is where I set the "staging/download" destinations.

 

 

So, why would you do that?

Surely, when you went to the Vortex Appdata folder, you saw a ton of other folders in the appdata folder that belong to other programs that you haven't copied into their main folders on another drive, so WHY would you even consider something "normal" that you would do with Vortex?

 

Vortex isn't installing mods to the Appdata folder, it's storing the INFO that it needs (like a LOT of other programs you have installed) to sort and manage your mods, in the appdata folder, and here you are copying and pasting it into your G drive

 

 

I should probably tell you not to look in C:\Program Data\Vortex, otherwise you'll copy all of the Vortex info from THAT folder to your G drive too.

 

 

HadToRegister - Thanks for the knee-jerk condescension, you've really lived up to the forum troll stereotype quite nicely.

 

 

Excuse me?

I wasn't condescending, but thanks for taking what I typed the wrong way, I'll make sure not to help you in the future when you screw up your other installs by copying and pasting the contents of programs in your APPDATA folder.

NExt time I'll make to plaster a bunch of :D and other smilies