Update to 0.17.3 did not warn about the loss of staged mods and downloads

[VoidsShadow]

On the bright side, it did warn me that it would not be backwards compatible with previous versions of Vortex.

 

Anyway. There goes over 2,000 mods collected over the past 6 years.

 

 

TL;DR

User error/ignorance

[HadToRegister]

On the bright side, it did warn me that it would not be backwards compatible with previous versions of Vortex.

 

Anyway. There goes over 2,000 mods collected over the past 6 years.

 

 

Where did you have your Download folder set?

 

So far you're the only person reporting this

 

[VoidsShadow]

Note: my mod staging folder and downloads folder were under the install directory at "J:/Vortex/". I was trying to keep all of my Vortex-related files in one place so I could keep track of it better.

Luckily, that drive is 3TB and isn't written to very often. Recuva has its work cut out for it.

 

P.S. My mistake. I may have lost those files longer ago than I thought.

[HadToRegister]

Note: my mod staging folder and downloads folder were under the install directory at "J:/Vortex/".

Luckily, that drive is 3TB and isn't written to very often. Recuva has its work cut out for it.

 

P.S. My mistake. I may have lost those files longer ago than I thought.

 

OK, the reason I asked was because in the early days, people were putting their mod download folder INSIDE the Vortex install folder, and whenever Vortex updated, Vortex deletes the entire Vortex Folder, which in turn deleted all the downloaded mods.

 

I've been using Vortex since the 0.15.x versions, and it has never deleted my Mod Download or Staging Folder.

[VoidsShadow]

That's exactly what the issue was. I originally had a symbolic link from the ProgramData location to my J partition. At the time, I wanted everything that wasn't Windows off of my C partition and Vortex was proving to be a pain. So, Vortex's executable would be at "J:/Vortex/Vortex.exe" alongside the downloads folder and the staging folders. It was nice to have Vortex all in one place while it lasted.

 

Okay, I think I had actually lost those files somewhere between December and late January.

[rmm200]

Sorry about your loss, but I am constantly amazed at the problems folks get themselves into.

I know it is documented to not put mods and archive folders inside the Vortex install directory.

Even a hard linked fake install directory counts.

Maybe another warning in the WIKI: Don't Do This!

[VoidsShadow]

It's mostly my fault for not keeping myself informed of Vortex's development. :/

[Guest deleted34304850]

you surely made backups of your environment, didn't you?

surely?

i mean, come on....

[VoidsShadow]

I hadn't touched the mods folders in months, so it wasn't even on my mind. I've previously considered using third-party software to make periodic backups, but my mod collection was nearing 30GB. If I were to use LZMA2 compression with high compression ratio parameters (e.g. 768MB Dictionary Size), the backups would add up in size more slowly, but it would take hours for each backup to compress. The compression would be pretty demanding on CPU resources if I were to use the aforementioned high-compression settings.

[Guest deleted34304850]

or you could simply buy a cheap as chips usb stick and do something as simple as incrementally copy changed files from your mod directory to that - you dont need to have anything more complex than that - but the horse has long bolted.