How do I make Vortex recognize my backed-up-and-brought-over mods?

[ShadowDragon8685]

Awhile back I had to basically rebuild my computer, that meant new hard drives, a new version of Windows, etc.

 

Now I'm getting Skyrim back together, and I redownloaded Vortex and SKSE all that.

 

When I was preparing to shut down the old computer, I saved my entire Vortex Mods/Skyrim folder.

 

Now that I've reinstalled Vortex, I copied all of the contents of the old install back to the new...

 

How do I make Vortex go "Oh, you have all these mods! Let me just get right on that and wooah, gonna be awhile re-deploying all of this."

 

It's just not recognizing anything. It would take me literally days to redownload all these files, and it would be even worse trying to get the load orders, options, jiggle physics etc, to work right again.

 

Am I just screwed, or is there a way to get Vortex to pick back up where it left off?

[HadToRegister]

DId you backup your Appdata folder where Vortex keeps all the mod info?

[ShadowDragon8685]

DId you backup your Appdata folder where Vortex keeps all the mod info?

Um... No, it does not appear that I did.

[HadToRegister]

C:\users\<YOUR NAME>\appdata\roaming\Vortex

[ShadowDragon8685]

C:\users\<YOUR NAME>\appdata\roaming\Vortex

From the old hard drive? It was wiped.

[Guest deleted34304850]

you may want to revisit your backup and archival strategy then, because it's not correct.

appdata has been around for years. you need to back that up.