Please explain the ".installing" files

[CloBear33]

Hello! Happy to report that my wait and see tactic worked, as I expected. I am no longer having any issues with the .installing files repopulating. I waited the 7 months to see if Vortex would be more stable and it is. Also when you fiddle with files in Vortex mods folder outside Vortex, NOT THAT YOU SHOULD, Vortex will prompt you to accept of fix the changes when you open it next. The disable and uninstall/remove buttons actually work and I don't have to manually go in to remove pesky .installing files..........still don't understand why they are there but I am sure for a good reason.

 

BIG CUDOS TO THE MAKERS OF VORTEX! I don't have the extra time to learn/do the modding process as I'd like but Vortex fixes everything I didn't like about other MO's and streamlines it into a simple efficient package.

 

Cheers,

 

Brian

[HadToRegister]

" .installing " files?

Never seen them
Where do they show up for you?

[HadToRegister]

Where do you have your "Mod Staging Folder", and where do you have your "Vortex Download Folder"?

[Tannin42]

When a mod is installed Vortex first extracts the whole archive content into a temporary location called "<modid>.installing".

(rationale: We're placing it into the staging folder to make sure that we can later move files out of it without copying them again and we have to extract everything at once because accessing individual files inside an archive can be extremely slow - imagine using a fomod installer if every time it tries to show an image it has to extract it from the archive and because the archive is solid, fetching it takes 2 minutes)

 

The installer will then see if there is a fomod script or anything, figures out which files should actually be installed, moves everything into the right location in the proper mod directory and then deletes what's left of the ".installing" directory.

 

This last cleanup step apparently failed for whatever reason, could be permission-related.