How do I avoid having 4 copies of all my installed mods?

[VictorCreed2]

actually i have - i advised you to go and watch videos and read about how vortex works. the intent here was to save you from a lot of pain. it's okay that you ignored that good advice. i'm used to it.

i then pointed out that you'd been advised, and were protesting against that advice, so then to save you more pain, advised that if you want to carry on doing what you're doing - go right ahead, but there's nothing anyone can do to stop you doing something ridiculous, it's your system, fill your boots (or your disk space).

then, i simply replied with a friendly piece of snark - given your unnecessary snarky response waiting for people to catch on. they had already caught on - directly after your opening post. it was you who was slow to pick up the process. seems you can give out the snark, but you ain't that good at taking it.

anyway - good luck with your modding and let us know when you fill your hard disk with multiple versions of the same files.

When did I ever ignore or protest against advice? I said I'd rather manually download my files, which is what someone said I could do as long as I downloaded them into Vortex's download folder. And I said I'd do that! I said hey guys I got that one extra copy of files out of the way, but there's still 3... still waiting for the obvious advise that the data folder is full of hardlinks that don't take up space.

[HadToRegister]

 

When did I ever ignore or protest against advice? I said I'd rather manually download my files, which is what someone said I could do as long as I downloaded then into Vortex's download folder. And I said I'd do that! I said hey guys I got that one extra copy of files out of the way, but there's still 3... still waiting for the obvious advise that the data folder is full of hardlinks that don't take up space.

 

 

 

I've told you at least three times now about Hard Links and how they work.

[VictorCreed2]

 

 

 

 

The mods in your game data folder are not a third group of mods taking up space. They are hard links that mirror what's in your Mod Staging Folder. If you don't know what hard links are, then google it.

 

That's basically what I needed to know. I don't know how many times I had to reiterate my concern before someone caught on.

 

we're all thinking the same about you.

 

F**K off, you haven't said one helpful thing. Nobody on the first page told me that the files in the data folder don't take up real space, which should be evident in all my posts that

I didn't know that. If you can't explain something simply so that an idiot can understand it, then you ain't that smart. Not like you ever tried to help.

 

 

 

I told you that in my 3rd response to you, and in every single response after that.

I knew exactly what you were talking about, which is why I explained HARDLINKS more than once.

As a matter of fact, the first time I mentioned HARD LINKS, the post you made right below my spot said "Someone mentioned HardLinks"

 

It's as if you weren't even reading my responses.

 

I missed your explanation about hard links because someone posted a nearly identical post right below you. But I did ask about hard links in my next post because I thought I realised what was going on, but in the very next reply 1ae0bfb8 told me to get lost like I wasn't in the middle of figuring out what my problem was and made up some fiction that I was refusing help even though I already made 50% progress. This thread would have been a whole lot less heated if someone wasn't sitting on the sidelines making dickish comments and saying things that weren't true, which is why I reported him for flame-baiting.

 

EDIT: Actually there were three posts in a row that were formatted the same, but only the first one explicitly said that hardlinks were in the data folder. This is how I got confused, but then I asked specifically about hardlinks because it seemed like the answer I was looking for. That other guy's intervention was completely unnecessary and only made it harder for me to focus on finding the answer. Maybe I would have reread some of the earlier posts if there wasn't someone antagonizing me.

[VictorCreed2]

One last question if anyone's still... alive. How in the world are you able to tell if a file is real or a hardlink? Because even WinDirStat is telling me that the mods in my data folder are taking up disk space. So in theory, if I filled my hard disk to capacity, would it show that I'm OVER capacity? Or would it not let me fill that much...cause if that's the case then for all practical purposes the hardlinks are taking up real space.

[Guest deleted34304850]

its very odd that you're blaming me for these things that seem to ail you.

[VictorCreed2]

its very odd that you're blaming me for these things that seem to ail you.

Let's see, right after someone posted the information I needed, you made a post giving terrible advice to go watch a video. (Why watch a video about a program that I've already been using and only have one specific question about, that most likely wouldn't be covered in a video?)

 

Then after I missed a key line of text, I asked specifically about the thing that I missed. The very next post was you, claiming that I ignored all advice and people should stop helping me. I was that close to solving everything. And I had not ignored any advice except "go watch a video" (plus I've already done that.)

 

You severely misread the situation, chimed in when you shouldn't have, and then acted like a dick because it took me a beat longer to figure out something than it should have, while I was being distracted by YOU.

[Guest deleted34304850]

my advice is good advice. you know why? because i know what i'm talking about. carry on with this weird blame-game its everyone else's fault but mine diatribe you're on. makes no odds to me. i won't allow someone like you to stop me from contributing viable and accurate solutions when people like you (but more grateful) get help they need.

[VictorCreed2]

You realise you're doing the same thing? You can't possibly be wrong. I just reread your first post, and you came off thorny to begin with. People are going to react to the energy you give off. Regardless if you think telling me to watch a video was good advice, your following posts were a mess. You got progressively antagonistic, and posted absolute falsehoods about how you perceived me. I was taking in information and applying it to my situation just fine. I had completely solved one thing and was asking about something else when you insisted that I was refusing to listen. Amazingly I solved everything, proof that you don't know what you're talking about. If you hadn't posted at all it would've been done much faster.

[JimboUK]

I think this thread has run its course.