Save downloaded mods to a file

[ptkato]

What I'm requesting is the possibility to save my current downloaded mods to a file, not the actual mods, but their links; in a way that if I ever reinstall my system (or happening anything that may purge the game, vortex or the mods), I just feed that file to Vortex and it downloads everything again to me.

 

Of course, that would cover only the mods that are still downloadable, local or missing (from the internet) mods could still be in the list, but greyed out.

[rmm200]

You used the word "Purge".

Keep in mind Vortex Purge is non-destructive. Your mods are all still safe after using it.

[anjenthedog]

It's an interesting idea, although as a workaround, one can drag links to desktop from the "My download history" tab, then transfer them to a directory like "my mod installations", although I fully realize that's *not* what you're suggesting, which is a far "richer" idea.

 

thb, and fwiw, if I'm concerned about a mod being deleted, I download its files to my disk, including those I actually use and even those I don't except for foreign language variants. (followers and bodyslides are the ones I'm most concerned about so those get primary treatment, and in terms of which files, suppose I currently prefer CBBE variants. I'll still download UNP, UUNP, UNPB. etc variants if they're offered) And for those, I generally also download at least some of the image examples, just so I can identify what's what, and I create a readme file with the contents of the description section, along with including references to the files and the mod requirements, and any interesting tidbits (avoidable glitches, tweaks, etc) from the comments tab

[Pickysaurus]

The URLs used to download from our site have an expiry time, so keeping the links would not work the way you are saying.

 

We are looking to add the ability to save your loadouts to share as a website feature in the near future though.

[ptkato]

The URLs used to download from our site have an expiry time, so keeping the links would not work the way you are saying.

 

We are looking to add the ability to save your loadouts to share as a website feature in the near future though.

 

That would work fine, anything that makes it easier; instead of going through the hassle of modding all of it again.

[HadToRegister]

What I'm requesting is the possibility to save my current downloaded mods to a file, not the actual mods, but their links; in a way that if I ever reinstall my system (or happening anything that may purge the game, vortex or the mods), I just feed that file to Vortex and it downloads everything again to me.

 

Of course, that would cover only the mods that are still downloadable, local or missing (from the internet) mods could still be in the list, but greyed out.

 

 

Besides clicking on the TRACK button on each mod page that I use, or plan to use, if I want to save the url to a mod, I just make a txt file and name it, Fallout 4 Mods.

Then I click up in the address bar of my browser and hit CTRL+A then paste the url in my text file, with the title of the Mod above the url in my txt file.

[Guest deleted34304850]

within Vortex, you have a ton of metadata about each mod in your load order.

Assuming that you backed up your downloads, so that all the mods you downloaded and use in your load order are available to you, is it feasible to "unload" that metadata into a file that Vortex could then read, and rebuild your load order if you had to do something drastic like re-install windows and start over?

If that's possible, then conceptually, you could take your downloads directory, and the Vortex meta data, and use that to re-install a working load order on another machine.

Is that possible with the internal database structures Vortex uses?