DerellLicht Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 First, let me clarify things...I recently did a new install of Windows 10 on my machine, and installed Vortex.Then I copied *all* the files from the original appdata\roaming\Vortex (which I still had, on another drive), to that directory in the current location... that was to restore all of my previously-installed mods for all my games.That works, and everything appears to be functioning properly, except that I get an error each time I run Vortex (see attached image). It doesn't seem to affect functionality of the program, but it *is* disturbing!!What does this error mean? And should I worry about it, since the program otherwise seems to be functioning? I'm thinking of just re-running the Vortex installer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Pickysaurus Posted February 10, 2021 Solution Share Posted February 10, 2021 Sounds like Vortex is trying to install an extension update but you already have the file in your downloads folder. I would suggest going to your downloads folder, then the "Site" subfolder and delete anything in there. That may prevent this issue from occurring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerellLicht Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 Sounds like Vortex is trying to install an extension update but you already have the file in your downloads folder. I would suggest going to your downloads folder, then the "Site" subfolder and delete anything in there. That may prevent this issue from occurring. Huzzah!! That worked... after a bit...Deleting the downloads folder, unfortunately, eliminated all of my installed mods!! Definitely not what I wanted to do...However, after trying a couple of other things, I deleted the contents of downloads, then copied them back over from my previous installation, and now everything works fine, and that error message is gone...Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Sounds like Vortex is trying to install an extension update but you already have the file in your downloads folder. I would suggest going to your downloads folder, then the "Site" subfolder and delete anything in there. That may prevent this issue from occurring. Huzzah!! That worked... after a bit...Deleting the downloads folder, unfortunately, eliminated all of my installed mods!! Definitely not what I wanted to do...However, after trying a couple of other things, I deleted the contents of downloads, then copied them back over from my previous installation, and now everything works fine, and that error message is gone...Thank you very much! You didn't follow his instructions, you weren't supposed to delete the whole Downloads folder, He said DELETE the DOWNLOADS\SITE subfolder, not the entire contents of the Downloads folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerellLicht Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 Sounds like Vortex is trying to install an extension update but you already have the file in your downloads folder. I would suggest going to your downloads folder, then the "Site" subfolder and delete anything in there. That may prevent this issue from occurring. Huzzah!! That worked... after a bit...Deleting the downloads folder, unfortunately, eliminated all of my installed mods!! Definitely not what I wanted to do...However, after trying a couple of other things, I deleted the contents of downloads, then copied them back over from my previous installation, and now everything works fine, and that error message is gone...Thank you very much! You didn't follow his instructions, you weren't supposed to delete the whole Downloads folder, He said DELETE the DOWNLOADS\SITE subfolder, not the entire contents of the Downloads folder Oh My... yes, I completely mis-read that message... and I realize now that he made it *very* clear, too!!!I guess I'm lucky anything worked at all... Thank you for this update message!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Sounds like Vortex is trying to install an extension update but you already have the file in your downloads folder. I would suggest going to your downloads folder, then the "Site" subfolder and delete anything in there. That may prevent this issue from occurring. Huzzah!! That worked... after a bit...Deleting the downloads folder, unfortunately, eliminated all of my installed mods!! Definitely not what I wanted to do...However, after trying a couple of other things, I deleted the contents of downloads, then copied them back over from my previous installation, and now everything works fine, and that error message is gone...Thank you very much! You didn't follow his instructions, you weren't supposed to delete the whole Downloads folder, He said DELETE the DOWNLOADS\SITE subfolder, not the entire contents of the Downloads folder Oh My... yes, I completely mis-read that message... and I realize now that he made it *very* clear, too!!!I guess I'm lucky anything worked at all... Thank you for this update message!! Hopefully you Manually deleted the Folder and still have it in your recycle bin where you can restore it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerellLicht Posted February 12, 2021 Author Share Posted February 12, 2021 Oh My... yes, I completely mis-read that message... and I realize now that he made it *very* clear, too!!!I guess I'm lucky anything worked at all... Thank you for this update message!! Hopefully you Manually deleted the Folder and still have it in your recycle bin where you can restore it? ummm... no, I'm currently running with the site directory from my original installation. However, I'm not getting any errors now when I run Vortex, and it seems to be functioning properly. Is that just an illusion?? If necessary, I can just delete the site directory, then re-install over the top of it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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