Will Vortex detect previously installed mods?

[BasiliskArt]

The title might be somewhat misleading so let me explain it a little more clearly.

I recently reset my computer to clean it out a bit, and to my surprise it kept my D:/ drive completely intact, including my entire Skyrim installation. That said: Vortex was gone, its files existed on the same drive but the program itself was uninstalled. After reinstalling it I found that it did in fact not remember either my profile, my installed mods list, or my load order.

Is it possible to "force" vortex into recognising the files still on my system?

I've already tried changing my staging folder, which it didn't like. It told me the folder needed to be empty.

I am currently in the midst of moving all my mods into the newly generated Vortex file, but I'm not certain whether that will work.

 

Any help is appreciated. It'd save me a lot of time and effort.

[HadToRegister]

You should have backed up your C:\users\YOUR NAME\appdata\roaming\Vortex folder.

Then you could've just restored it and resumed where you left off.