turulo Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Hello, last night when I closed vortex, it asked for admin rights. I guessed that it wanted to apply some updates so I let it fly. Now when I start Vortex it can't find the download folder and I can "feel" that it got deleted cause suddenly 400gb worth of mods is free in my HD. I probably made a mistake by putting the download folder in some subdirectory of the vortex installation path or something I can't remember. But if that is the case I shouldn't have been allowed to set the download directory in such place. Quite pissed off tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Hello, last night when I closed vortex, it asked for admin rights. I guessed that it wanted to apply some updates so I let it fly. Now when I start Vortex it can't find the download folder and I can "feel" that it got deleted cause suddenly 400gb worth of mods is free in my HD. I probably made a mistake by putting the download folder in some subdirectory of the vortex installation path or something I can't remember. But if that is the case I shouldn't have been allowed to set the download directory in such place. Quite pissed off tbh. If you put the download folder inside the Vortex directory then it got deleted. Good thing there's a sticky about not putting your download or mods folder inside the Vortex Directory https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/6454716-do-not-put-modsdownloads-into-your-vortex-install-directory/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deleted34304850 Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Hello, last night when I closed vortex, it asked for admin rights. I guessed that it wanted to apply some updates so I let it fly. Now when I start Vortex it can't find the download folder and I can "feel" that it got deleted cause suddenly 400gb worth of mods is free in my HD. I probably made a mistake by putting the download folder in some subdirectory of the vortex installation path or something I can't remember. But if that is the case I shouldn't have been allowed to set the download directory in such place. Quite pissed off tbh.computers are good like that.the principle is called "garbage in, garbage out".basically they do what you tell them to do, unquestioningly and often with amusing/disasterous consequences. silver lining - you learned something here. you always learn from mistakes, otherwise where's the fun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turulo Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 Yeah I learned to install manually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deleted34304850 Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 oh you're in for a whole world of fun. good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turulo Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 No! I know remember why I got screwed... I installed Vortex long ago (was an early adopter) but I stopped using it and I think I deleted it. Then I recently reinstalled it in another folder and it somehow found old stuff and crap it doesn't even exist anymore. When I try to set the download folder to another location, it moves Vortex (all the dll and executables) to the download folder. That's is why the update deleted my mods. I don't know how to fix this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turulo Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 GOD!!! it breaks more and more when it tries to fix stuff.... Its worse than windows millenium.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deleted34304850 Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 if you want to completely uninstall it go and download revo uninstaller. it will uninstall any product then it will go off and find additional files and remove them too.you'll have a load of stuff in your appdata folder that is probably left over from your original install and is causing your difficulties. give that a go and see how you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turulo Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 It was working so well... first time ever I thought everything was going to be alright.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 It was working so well... first time ever I thought everything was going to be alright.... Remove every Vortex you can find, and delete the C:\users\YOUR NAME\appdata\roaming\VORTX folder, just the vortex folder, so you can start over clean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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