Vortex is still installing mods on my C:Drive instead of my D:Drive like I told it to.

[Xesx]

Hello all, I have an issue, that I see a lot of people are having but I have not found a fix for it so I here I am.

 

So a little background before I start, I used NMM a few years ago and when I rebuilt a new pc and went to download skyrim mods, I noticed NMM changed to Vortex. All well and good, Vortex is superior to NMM. I used Vortex for the passed week. Worked fine, was easy to use, all well.

 

I bought a new SSD for windows, hoping to only put things such as Windows itself, drivers, other applications like system applications and files on it explicitly. I knew that Vortex installed mods to my C:Drive appdata and so I changed the directory in Vortex's settings to my D:Drive. Keep in mind that Steam, Skyrim, and Vortex are all on my D:Drive, not my C:Drive. (Will post images).

 

I downloaded a few mods, simple ones, nothing too big, to check to see that my C:Drive was not getting filled up and to my surprise it was, as well as my D:Drive.

 

Also, no downloads are being saved to my Vortex downloads folder, that may be normal, I am just not familiar with Vortex yet.

 

Again, I changed the directories of both the download folder, and the mod folder to my D:Drive, which Steam, Vortex, and Skyrim are all on, why is it still saving mods to my C:Drive? I would love to be able to play Skyrim modded, as the vanilla game is unplayable to me. Please help, because right now I do not see a way to play Skyrim, Oblivion, or any games I usually modded.

 

My C:Drive is only 120gb, my D:Drive is 2tb, so you can see my problem. If I let this go, my C:Drive would fill up within modding skyrim alone, let alone trying to get Oblivion.

 

I can upload any more pictures as needed, and edit as needed as well.

 

https://imgur.com/a/dMyona3

 

Alternatively, if I just manually install all my mods I can bypass this right? I know how, and am not daunted by doing it, as I did it before NMM. It is just a few more key strokes and takes a tad bit longer.

[rmm200]

Screen shots of your settings page where you specify download directory location and another for mod directory location.

Vortex actually works the way you would want it to work - both downloads and mods on your D drive. Some (small) vortex things will always go in appdata.

If it always put mods in appdata - we would get a lot more people complaining.

Those screen shots should be enough to get you straightened out.

Shees - NM. You already did a good job with screenshots.

 

Mods should be like D:\Vortex Mods\ Vortex will add the game name after that.

 

Download should be D:\Vortex\Downloads

 

Click on the little orange "i" after Download Folder and Mod Staging Folder. It will explain it better than I did. Don't forget to click Apply.

[Xesx]

Screen shots of your settings page where you specify download directory location and another for mod directory location.

Vortex actually works the way you would want it to work - both downloads and mods on your D drive. Some (small) vortex things will always go in appdata.

If it always put mods in appdata - we would get a lot more people complaining.

Those screen shots should be enough to get you straightened out.

 

Couldn't I just manually install all my mods and it would work the same way? I feel more comfortable doing that then having some stuff from vortex taking up my C:Drive data as it is very limited. If I manually install mods then they only get saved to my D:Drive, right?

 

Also, I believe I did put the screenshots of my settings page and directories, is imgur showing all 5 pictures?

[BigBizkit]

Other than the downloads, how are you verifying that the mods are "being installed on the C drive still" ?

 

With your settings, the mods should be installed on D. Further, hardlink deployment would not even make it possible to have the mods (staging folder) on C, while the game is on D. So, in your case D should be the only option in the first place.

[HadToRegister]

You REALLY shouldn't put your DOWNLOAD folder INSIDE your Mod Staging Folder, like you currently have it.

You need to move your DOWNLOAD folder (using Vortex) OUTSIDE of the Mod Staging Folder such as D:\Vortex Downloads\

 

I'm going to hazard a guess, that by setting your Download directory inside your Mod Staging Folder is confusing Vortex

[Xesx]

I miss NMM, I just installed them manually. The way I knew the mods were still being installed to my C:Drive after doing all of that is the fact that after I did what you guys told me to do and then looked in my APPDATA there were like 12 gigabytes of mods in my User/Appdata folder. I uninstalled Vortex and am just going to manually install mods for now on I guess.

[HadToRegister]

I miss NMM, I just installed them manually. The way I knew the mods were still being installed to my C:Drive after doing all of that is the fact that after I did what you guys told me to do and then looked in my APPDATA there were like 12 gigabytes of mods in my User/Appdata folder. I uninstalled Vortex and am just going to manually install mods for now on I guess.

 

 

Did you even read my post?

 

You Have your DOWNLOAD Folder, INSIDE Your Mod Staging Folder, you shouldn't do that.

That might be why Vortex keeps putting things into the Appdata folder.

 

 

Anyway, if you had just scrolled down the Vortex Download Page a little farther, you could've downloaded the newest version of NMM

 

Although, NMM does the SAME thing with Mods/Mod Staging Folder that Vortex does., people just like to ignore that

 

Anyway, click on the INSTALL VORTEX BUTTON, Scroll down the page, and you'll find these buttons, Choose Community Release.

Then when you have a problem, you can post in the NMM support forums, have fun