Accidentally had archive selected when I hit remove mod now all my downloads are gone, any way to undo?

[nightstick24]

I was modding Skyrim SE, I downloaded all the mods and started installing them. I decided to change the order I loaded them in so I went to the Mods tab and Ctrl + A selected them all, then I clicked 'remove'. Archive was checked, apparently, and now all my downloads are gone, harddrive space where they were is empty.

 

Is there a way to undo this? I lost nearly 800 files, over three days of downloading. I don't have it in me to do it again.

 

Thanks

[rmm200]

Did you check recycle bin?

[HadToRegister]

double post

[HadToRegister]

Nope.

As with ANY program that can delete files, or mass delete files, it's up to the user to use their discretion.

Also, I don't understand why you would CTRL+A to select ALL of your Mods, if your intention was to "Change the order you loaded them"

You can change a lot of that just by clicking on the ^ and down symbols in each of the columns

[nightstick24]

Not in the recycle bin sadly.

 

 

I was selecting them all to remove them because when you hit install from the download folder some mods have FOMOD installers. I've got a bunch that detect what you've got installed already. I wanted to remove the installed mods then start again, making sure I installed those specific ones last. I just didn't feel like looking through the ~70 mods that had installed already.

[Guest deleted34304850]

did you make any backup of your files before you deleted the archives? if you have backup software installed on your system, there may be some files you can restore from a backup that such a program may have taken.

if you don't have a backup, then obviously you're out of luck, but i can recommend macrium reflect, which is free and does a job of backing up your files superbly, which may help you in the future.