Mod install directory

[amborgeson]

So, I had a weird error a week ago and I am trying to figure out what happened. Win7 might have done something weird during an update that changed permissions, or maybe something else happened?

 

Basically, I opened up Vortex, and got error messages about not having access to the hard drive and had to tell windows to give permission to Vortex to write to the mod folders. Then errors about external changes, which I tried to revert, but while the mod folders are there, there is no data in any of them other than the occasional random text file. There are even nested folders, just no files.

 

Now, to make sure, is this the correct default path for Vortex?

 

C:\Users\[LoginID]\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\skyrimse\mods

 

Generated by this string: {USERDATA}\{GAME}\mods

 

'Local' seems like a better idea than 'Roaming' for a default directory, and it seems that most of my games and programs do use AppData\local\[...], but not Vortex (or zEdit)

 

I don't know where else to begin figuring out what happened. The error has not repeated itself (though I haven't opened up Vortex again until today). No other program has had a similar issue.

[HadToRegister]

You haven't run Vortex as an admin have you?
If so, don't

 

Also, do you use window defender?
If so, turn off the Ransomware part of it

[amborgeson]

I had not previously, but when I was trying to get everything to work, I launched it as admin once to make sure it could do everything, but that was a right-click action, I haven't set it to always run that way.

 

I took your idea of tweaking Windows Defender settings and went a slightly different direction that I think is safer: I excluded both the vortex program directory and the mod directory I posted above. Thank you, that may be enough to prevent re-occurrence.

[HadToRegister]

I had not previously, but when I was trying to get everything to work, I launched it as admin once to make sure it could do everything, but that was a right-click action, I haven't set it to always run that way.

 

I took your idea of tweaking Windows Defender settings and went a slightly different direction that I think is safer: I excluded both the vortex program directory and the mod directory I posted above. Thank you, that may be enough to prevent re-occurrence.

 

 

Good alternative solution to exempt the folders rather than turn the entire feature off.

 

So everything is working now?

[amborgeson]

So far, I'm re-building my mod collection right now. It's slowed by Vortex not over-writing the 'empty' mods, so I had it disable all the empty mods, then am going through one-by-one, opening the mod page by linking from vortex, completely removing the mod (checking the "delete archive" box), then downloading and reinstalling it.