Vyxenne Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Vortex 1.3.22Windows 10 Homei7 10,70032GB RAMRTX 2060 Super Thanks to an October, 2020 backup, I found most of the SSE Vortex Downloads files and copied them to E:\Games\Vortex Downloads, my Downloads folder. There are now hundreds of 7z/zip/rar downloaded archives in Vortex's Downloads folder. I have carefully made sure that the Downloads folder in Vortex Settings is the exact, correct folder (by browsing to it to select it). Yet Vortex does not detect any of those 300+ SSE files, but instead sees only FO4 files and reports them, and only them, when I look at my Downloads tab with my SSE Profile active. Please, this is my second plea for help regarding the disaster that is unfolding since I rashly tried to switch Vortex to my FNV Profile. The response to my first post about it was basically "that's weird" lol, like I have to agree with that! But I'm teetering on the edge of disaster here and need more than that- I need actual support, please. Since Vortex has already blown up over 300 of my downloaded SSE mod archives, I feel that if I switch Profiles to one of my other SSE Profiles, or try to reinstall Vortex, I will lose everything. I would very much appreciate any help anyone can offer to force Vortex to "see" and report the 300++ SSE archive files currently in the Vortex Downloads folder, and as an added bonus, stop reporting my FO4 mod archives when an SSE Profile is selected and active. There is something seriously wrong with my Vortex installation. Please give me a non-destructive process by which I can troubleshoot and recover from this disaster. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Have you seen that big fat "View All Downloads" button at the bottom of the Downloads screen?By default the screen shows only the downloads that haven't been installed already. You can also set the filter on the "Game" column to "<current game>" so it only shows the downloads for the game you're currently managing, if you prefer that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vyxenne Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 I found the issue- in my previous post on a related subject, someone said "the Vortex Downloads folder is universal, not game-specific" or words to that effect. Accordingly, I moved all of my SSE downloaded archives to the Vortex Downloads folder ("E:\Games\Vortex Downloads.") The problem is that the person who posted the statement was in error- the Vortex Downloads folder that must be set and specified in Vortex Settings is a PARENT FOLDER, not a universal downloads folder designed to contain all games' archives, and in fact should contain game-specific subfolders. Thus, my Downloaded archive files do NOT go into the Vortex Downloads folder- they go into a game-specific child/subfolder of my Vortex Downloads folder. This information is impossible to find anywhere as far as I can see. Once I created a "\skyrimse" folder in the Vortex Downloads folder and copied all of my downoaded archives into it, Vortex began "seeing" my SSE downloaded archives. So the issue was that I followed bad advice trying to recover from Vortex deleting all of my downloaded archives. The remaining issue now is that I don't know how to isolate my downloaded FO4 archives from out of the sea of skyrimse archives so that I can move them to the correct subfolder: ..\Vortex Downloads\fallout4. And finally, Vortex did, indeed, delete all of my downloaded archives for all games when it erroneously challenged me to set the Vortex Downloads folder after I changed back to my SSE profile following the failed attempt to play FNV. This is true whether anybody understands how/why it did that, and despite any claims that "Vortex wouldn't do that." The fact is that it did do exactly that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmm200 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 I will just add Vyxenne is not our average truculent user. She has been around long enough, and is active enough helping people, that she does report facts accurately. Not a person I would casually help - unless I were wearing asbestos long johns at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 For a first step it doesn't matter all that much whether it was user error or a bug. If it's a bug we address it by fixing said bug, if it's user error we'd have to look into whether the UI or documentation can be improved.Either way though, we need to know how and why it happened, we need the steps the user took to get there and a log to compare that to what happened under the hood."This happened, you can trust me" doesn't help, because we can't take any actions on that. Even if I took your word at face value, the best I can do for you is feel bad about it - still can't fix anything. Also: even smart people sometimes do stupid things. Just because someone is knowledgeable and/or intelligent doesn't prove they didn't make a mistake. I can't work based of that, I still need a description of the exact steps that reproduce the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 For a first step it doesn't matter all that much whether it was user error or a bug. If it's a bug we address it by fixing said bug, if it's user error we'd have to look into whether the UI or documentation can be improved.Either way though, we need to know how and why it happened, we need the steps the user took to get there and a log to compare that to what happened under the hood."This happened, you can trust me" doesn't help, because we can't take any actions on that. Even if I took your word at face value, the best I can do for you is feel bad about it - still can't fix anything. Also: even smart people sometimes do stupid things. Just because someone is knowledgeable and/or intelligent doesn't prove they didn't make a mistake. I can't work based of that, I still need a description of the exact steps that reproduce the problem. I explained how it happened to me in her other thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AugustaCalidia Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 I explained how it happened to me in her other thread. Your case and Vyxenne's are similar in one respect yet different in another. When your downloads were redirected, she had archives deleted whereas you didn't. What that means, I don't know. It would be helpful, I think, if a moderator could combine these two threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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