Skyrim Workshop obliterated all of my old mods?

[LakotaWolf]

I'm in kind of a crazy situation that I'll try to explain clearly. :/

 

I haven't played Skyrim in over six months (I last played back in December of '11.) I've always played the game through Steam and never had any problems. I also had quite a few mods installed, most of them graphical/cosmetic in nature, and never had a single problem loading them, nor did I have any gameplay problems with them. I downloaded all of them from the Nexus here.

 

Recently reading about the upcoming (for PC users, anyway) Dawnguard DLC made me want to play Skyrim again, so just now I fired up Steam and went to launch the game launcher.

 

However, now when I click on Data Files, all of my old mods are gone from the list. My list is, in fact, utterly blank. I launched the game anyway, and everything's back to vanilla - all my mods are gone.

 

When I last played the game, the Skyrim Workshop on Steam hadn't been implemented yet. I'm guessing that its implementation somehow obliterated all of the mods I previously had installed.

 

When I browse to the Data folder in my Steam > Skyrim directory, all of the .esp files and texture files from the old mods are gone.

 

Has this happened to anyone else? Or am I losing my mind? Is there anything I can do?

 

I could probably pore over the Nexus files and find all of the old mods I had, but I'd probably miss a few of them, and frankly, it took quite a bit of work to get them all installed last time. >_<

 

EDIT: I should also point out that I hadn't logged into Steam for several months either - so perhaps some kind of update to Skyrim that Steam forced upon me is what ate my mods?

 

I'm actually pretty sad about this. I really had my game looking - and playing - the way I wanted it ;_;

 

 

Anyway - thank you in advance if anyone has any insight or advice! :}

Edited June 30, 2012 by LakotaWolf

[Dhegonus]

one reason i hate steam! :P

 

strange how it erased all your mods.. atleast the game still runs and it's just the vanilla base! so it's not all bad to be honest. Not sure i can help you really, just a matter of finding mod and installing them and with the nexus mod manager it is very simple usually and ENB files just go in the main directory anyway so it's not toooo difficult :P

 

i never use the workshop button or the data file system that launched with the game, i always use the NMM for mod managing and starting the game up.. never had any issues :)

[LakotaWolf]

Thank you for the reply :D

 

I never used the NMM before - I never knew it existed! Looking at it now, I'm not sure how I lived without it. ;p

 

It does seem as though my fate will be to reinstall all the mods ;} With the NMM, it won't be so bad, though!

[Sonreac]

I'd definitely do a backup now that's its "vanilla" so that you don't have to wait for that long hour or so to download skyrim from Steam. That's what I have. A nice backup. Mainly....because my little nephew hates me and I know that while I'm asleep he comes into my room and messes around with everything. Or the cat...Yeah. The cat does it!

 

However, I would still manually download mods and then install them using nmm. That way you have a backup of all your files, as well as, read me's and miscellaneous data. Or better yet...Use Wrye. It puts all the readme's into their own folders when they're installed.

[Teqheat]

its not steam that did wipe out on your mod it was nexus download manager was wipe out too on all mod it happen to me same so i just did all mod dl all over again on both steam and mod manager.

[Rabbit1251]

its not steam that did wipe out on your mod it was nexus download manager was wipe out too on all mod it happen to me same so i just did all mod dl all over again on both steam and mod manager.

 

Yes...except that he wasn't using the Nexus Mod Manager until AFTER he lost all of his mods. Go fig...

 

 

Rabbit