Download Folder missing - except it isn't

[Jyotai]

Since the last update to Vortexm it's started up everytime with a note that it cannot find my downloads folder.

 

I manually show it where that folder is, but then on the next load... the same popup.

 

I have the downloads on my 'D:' drive, and the mods on my 'C:' drive...

- I'm on a laptop with a 250gb hard-drive so I try to push as many things as I can to an external drive... Vortex insists on a copy of the mods in the downloads, mods directory AND game... tripling disk size... I'd partially solved that in past by putting the downloads on D:...

 

Could this be...

 

- A need to reinstall Vortex?

- A corrupted ini in Vortex from the update?

- A new limit that the downloads have to be on the same drive?

- Something I should look elsewhere for a solution to?

 

Mods:

C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\Vortex\skyrimse\Mods - 38.1gb

 

Downloads:

D:\My Games\Vortex\skyrimse\downloads - 2.89gb

 

Game:

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data - 66.3gb

Vortex:

C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex - 307mb

 

 

[rmm200]

One note: the size you show for Data is incorrect. The Data directory has hard links back to your mods directory, but they actually take no space. So 66.3GB - 38.1GB is actually used.

 

More to the point, you have Downloads specified incorrectly.

You tell Vortex what folder you want to use for downloads.

In your case it would be D:\My Games\Vortex\downloads. In that Vortex will create a directory for each game, like skyrimse or fallout 4.

[BigBizkit]

Could you please send in your log?

 

I am assuming your external drive is plugged in when you launch Vortex?