Vortex installs on my desired drive however...

[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.

 

 

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.

 

 

You're not the one that helped me in the first place, and if you TRULY can't detect the abrasiveness in your own responses then you probably need to do some real self examination.

 

Enjoy.

[HadToRegister]

 

 

 

You're not the one that helped me in the first place, and if you TRULY can't detect the abrasiveness in your own responses then you probably need to do some real self examination.

 

Enjoy.

 

 

Goodbye

[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).

 

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)

 

 

Yes, and I'm telling him that's the issue, he's moving that. All he wanted to achieve was just have the mods download and install on the G folder instead of C. He didn't need to do anything in the App Data folder.

[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)

 

 

Yes, and I'm telling him that's the issue, he's moving that. All he wanted to achieve was just have the mods download and install on the G folder instead of C. He didn't need to do anything in the App Data folder.

 

 

That's what I told him too in my first response, along with setting up the folders for mods, downloads etc.

But eh, answering these questions 100 times a day because people don't want to read FAQs or watch tutorials gets annoying.

Anyway, I've set it so I don't see his posts anymore, so I'm good.

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when someone posts on a forum, the context applied to that post is done by the reader, not the poster.

i've stated elsewhere, because it's true - Hardtoregister is one of THE MOST helpful posters on the Nexus, and he posts here to try and HELP people who are having issues.

I read his posts and find no condescention implied, or written.

If you don't like what he posts, you have a choice not to read those posts. You would be missing out on a lot if you did that, but the choice is there.

Calling someone out for doing nothing more than trying to help will ultimately lead to one thing - that person will simply say "**** you, figure it out yourself" and refrain from posting. What a joyous day that will be.