reinstall mod no longer working

[tesnexus8]

note: I did an OS install too (to W10) a couple of weeks ago, so IDK if this bug is caused by that or the fact that I also moved to a newer version of Vortex at the same time. All the games and Vortex pieces are on a separate drive.

 

In a nutshell, "reinstall" is now greyed out on all my mods in Vortex - EXCEPT, it's only broken for mods I've installed SINCE updating. All the mods I installed with Vortex 1.05 (on W7) work fine.

I copied the AppData from the old OS after installing Vortex (1.1.5) and all the other functionality also works fine AFAICT: it's just that the new/updated mods can't be reinstalled and aren't in the staging dir.

 

My staging folder is set correctly in Vortex, and I can see all the mod files in there up to 25 Oct, which sounds about right time-wise. Everything I can see in there DOES have "reinstall" enabled, as you'd expect. The folder permissions are all fine.

Sorry, no: EVERYTHING is in there, including a mod I just DL'd earlier today. It's VortexStaging/downloads that hasn't updated since Oct.

 

I download mods through the browser so I can keep them where I want them, not through Vortex. Obviously though that's correctly been copying things into "downloads" until now.

 

Any ideas what I'm missing? Or was this a deliberate change in Vortex to save disk space or something?

 

Thanks.

[tesnexus8]

You know what? This HAS to be Windows just being stupid. Authenticated Users have R/W/etc already, but I'll reset the owner and permissions explicitly anyway and I bet that sorts it out.

 

Wow - nope. Even with explicit Ownership and Full Control for my account (rather than just as a member of Administrators) new mods still don't get added to staging\downloads, and still can't be reinstalled except by manually removing them and then using "install from file" again. :sad:

 

Finally got my brain working and looked at the logs, duh... :P

But - no warnings, no errors.

[HadToRegister]

If you did a windows reinstall, then more than likely your Vortex folder with all the mod data in the appdata folder on C:\users\<yourname>\appdata\raoming\ got overwritten

[tesnexus8]

I removed an old mod (i.e. one that had been installed "correctly" months ago) and ticked the "Remove Archive" box, and it was deleted from staging\downloads correctly. So Vortex is using the right folder: it's just not actually updating it for new mods.

 

I'm at a loss here. Unless this was actually a deliberate change in Vortex, I can't think of anything that would cause it to not be working now.

[tesnexus8]

@HadToRegister - thanks, but if you read my first post you'll see I already knew about that and handled it as part of the OS reinstall.

(Thanks to a thread in here that I read ahead of time). :smile:

 

Like I say, everything is working correctly except this one aspect.

 

@Tannin42 - The mods are actually saved to a different drive. Did you switch to using links for the staging\download? That's about the only thing I can come up with that might cause this.

Nope, that's not either: I copied a mod to that drive and installed it from there, downloads\skyrimse still doesn't update.

[tesnexus8]

I just updated FO4 too, and that has the same problem. (Not surprising really).

 

Again, permissions are fine: downloads\fallout4 shows a "date modified" of 5 minutes ago - but there are no files in it.

 

I'd still blame it on permissions (despite all the clear evidence that's NOT the problem) except that all the other dirs in there like staging are updating just fine.

 

If I ever figure it out I'll post the details here, but I could definitely use any ideas anyone has. Thanks.