Why does Vortex require your documents to be in its default C: drive location to work?

[Xynclo]

On my PC I have a separate HDD (my D: drive) which I store pretty much all my data on that doesn't need to be saved to the C: drive. This includes my documents and therefore I have moved my Documents folder onto there instead. I do this as my C: drive is quite small and I want to keep my document/data separate from my OS (which is Windows 10 if it helps). This means that when I installed Vortex, using the custom install location file, and attempted to open it, the "misconfigured documents folder" error message was displayed. I have read through the page that the error message sends you to if you click "More info" (https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/Misconfigured_Documents_Folder) and the only solution it presents is to reset the documents folder to its default C: drive location, which I obviously don't want to/can't plausibly do due to reasons I've previously stated.

 

Is there honestly no way of having Vortex use the documents folder that is situated in another drive other than C:? It seems like a pretty big oversight to not consider custom drive setups when making Vortex and also seems like a step backwards from NMM which doesn't have a problem with such a setup.

 

I really wanna use Vortex over NMM as it seems will receive more development and have more support surrounding it in the future, with NMM's official support and development being discontinued by Nexus. If anyone can help, or even point out/explain something that I have missed (I wouldn't be surprised if so), it would be most appreciated :)

[rmm200]

Documents is a Windows folder. You can't just move it on your own.

Open File Manager and select Documents in the left margin.

Then right mouse select Properties.

On Properties, select Location.

Now tell Windows where you actually want Documents to be. Any disk will do.

Click on Move, and whatever location Windows was using will be moved to your new location.

My "Documents" is not on C: - and both Vortex and I am happy with it that way.

[HadToRegister]

Documents is a Windows folder. You can't just move it on your own.

Open File Manager and select Documents in the left margin.

Then right mouse select Properties.

On Properties, select Location.

Now tell Windows where you actually want Documents to be. Any disk will do.

Click on Move, and whatever location Windows was using will be moved to your new location.

My "Documents" is not on C: - and both Vortex and I am happy with it that way.

 

 

^Good info here.

 

I learned something today!

[Tannin42]

Windows asks the operating system where Documents is, it doesn't have c: hard-coded.

But as rmm200 has described, you have to let the OS know where you want documents to be.

I'm pretty sure Vortex isn't going to be the only software that's going to stumble if the Location isn't set up correctly.

 

As a heads-up: Vortex will still require some space (a few MB) in the appdata directory which is also located on C by default.

[Xynclo]

I've managed to get Vortex to work now!

 

Something evidently didn't happen correctly when I was initially relocating my Documents folder. I did go about it the way the rmm200 has described but something must have happened for windows to then disassociate it as the main documents folder. I found the new documents folder that windows must have created by default and was now associating as the main documents folder before I merged it with my custom location for the folder, again, using the way rmm200 described. Vortex boots up like I assume it does normally now, error message free.

 

Thanks everyone for you help :)