Duplicated Profile Not Activating/Deploying Mods?

[mrspongeworthy]

Never bothered with Profiles before as I generally get a game modded the way I want and leave it that way. But after a persistent problem with Skyrim VR I thought I would make a new profile so I didn't have to constantly remember which mods are active in my main profile. Let's call these profiles "MAIN" and "TEST". I turned on profiles (but NOT ini & save functions), named my two profiles, and used the "draw a line" widget to clone my existing mod setup from MAIN to the new TEST profile.

 

All *looks* good in Vortex. I can switch profiles. I can see which mods are supposedly deployed, but other than texture and mesh mods ZERO of my mods that are showing up as deployed in my new TEST profile are actually deployed at all. They are all completely non-functional. I've even purged and re-deployed the list. Nada.

 

I feel like an idiot but I can't for the life of me figure out what I've done wrong. What the heck am I missing in this process?

 

Thanks!

 

EDIT: Leaving this here for others who have the same problem: Vortex transfers the mods and has them deployed but NOT activated. You must manually re-activate all the plugins you want active. Gleep!