(suggestion) sorting tracking centre

[brairbrain]

I did not see this topic posted (I may have missed it, if so my bad). What I would really like to see is a ability to sort tracked mods in a folder like structure, similar to making folders for emails in Gmail or other email site.

 

It might just be me, but I have a few pages of tracked mods. It would be super helpful to be able to make a "weapon mods" folder, "armor mods", "player houses", etc.

[bben46]

If you download manually you can already do that. And set up any number and type of categories you want. - You are not limited by the imagination of the programmer that set up the categories, but by your own imagination.

 

Instead of using the download with manager, use the manual download - set up a primary downloads folder , then subfolders for each game - Downloads\Games\Oblivion, Downloads\Games\Skyrim then subfolders for each category - Skyrim\weapons, Skyrim\Armor - as many as you want - then when you downloader asks where to download to, select the category you want to use for that mod.You can usually even create new subfolders directly from your downloader - so if a new mod rates a new subfolder you create it while downloading and download into it right then.

 

You can still use NMM to install the mods. Just use the 'install Mods from Folder'. Plus the downloads are in a folder outside the control of NMM (or any other mod manager). If NMM crashes or completely loses all of your mods, you still have them in their download folders. If you want even finer control. set up more subfolders - I have some mods that have their own subfolder. Where I have multiple versions of that mod stored if I want to roll back to an earlier version.

 

You can also use this when downloading mods from some other site (yes, there are other mod sites out there) that does not support the NMM or Steam Workshop - Then use NMM to install that mod and manage it. :thumbsup:

 

The drawback, It requires a little more thought and effort than mindlessly clicking on 'download with manager' and it takes a bit more hard drive space - not a problem for me as I have over 2TB of drive space available and have used less than a quarter of it. :biggrin: