Skyrim mods folder is empty even though ı got plenty of mods on Vortex.

[CheersMate]

Is this how its supposed to be?All my mods seem to be loaded in the Data folder.

[alexander_dougherty]

Don't Vortex and MO2 use a virtual file system, where the mods are store elsewhere so they don't mess up you game if they leave orphaned files.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by CheersMate:

Is this how its supposed to be?All my mods seem to be loaded in the Data folder.

Yes it's how it's meant to be.

This is where they'll be when deployed through a mod manager like Vortex or MO2 as alexander said, and where they'll be when downloaded via the Bethesda launcher in-game.

[Ilja]

MO2 uses virtual Data folder. With that, Data folder is always empty. Mods are loaded according to profile specific lists.

Vortex uses symlinks. You might see mod files in Data folder, but those are actually virtual links to mods installed in to game's Vortex folder. Like with MO2, mods are loaded according to profile specific lists.

[fauxpas]

Vortex has been giving me issues the last couple of weeks and I've had to reinstall my mods (not enable, reinstall) as well as install Vortex itself.

[CheersMate]

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Vortex has been giving me issues the last couple of weeks and I've had to reinstall my mods (not enable, reinstall) as well as install Vortex itself.

What kind of issues have you encountered ?

[tulle040657]

The mods folder in Sykrim is not used for anything at this time. I don't even know why it is there

[fauxpas]

Originally posted by CheersMate:

Originally posted by fauxpas:

Vortex has been giving me issues the last couple of weeks and I've had to reinstall my mods (not enable, reinstall) as well as install Vortex itself.

What kind of issues have you encountered ?

Vortex "ate" my mods twice ... and enabling didn't work, had to reinstall as well as re-download a few mods due to "cyclical errors".


Then Vortex refused to open, giving an error about being corrupt, which required me to reinstall Vortex itself.

[LostME]

Originally posted by Ilja:

MO2 uses virtual Data folder. With that, Data folder is always empty. Mods are loaded according to profile specific lists.

Vortex uses symlinks. You might see mod files in Data folder, but those are actually virtual links to mods installed in to game's Vortex folder. Like with MO2, mods are loaded according to profile specific lists.

Hardlinks are used for Skyrim. You can work with these files as with the mod itself. Modify in ssedit, etc. After that, the vortex can apply changes to the files of the installed mods or revert the changes.

[Ilja]

Originally posted by LostME:

Hardlinks are used for Skyrim.

Yep.