At least I will confirm what works and what are the outcomes.Īs much a ted-talk as qanda, but the concept of Merging updates or other files into a main file has come up in my current re-installation of SSE and modding of it: I've received excellent advice and guidance here before, and I hope others who would like to make the same transition would find my thread very useful - even if you guys merely provide links to other places. I figured this is the safest place to ask for guidance. I am bound to do something wrong if left to my own devices / mixed suggestions from other places on the net. If anyone is familiar with the correct and hopefully detailed process on how to switch from Vortex to MO2, please help me. I understand that the Purge function can do this, but I dread to think what will happen to the directory when I hit Uninstall Vortex. Without _folder_managed_by_vortex files, of course. In short, I would like to retain my entire Skyrim directory as it is.

Also, there are other important tools to consider, such as SKSE, SSEEdit, LOOT, FNIS and other that I was able to access via Vortex Dashboard. It is also unclear to me how I could retain my current mods without them being deleted from the system when I uninstall Vortex. I sincerely hope that is not the case because I've done that recently and the process is tedious at the very least, if we consider the time consumed and additional cleaning. I have found several suggestions on how to do this and nearly all of them indicate that I should reinstall my game from scratch. Their 'ease of access' is more trouble than it's worth, which is what I know now that I'm more familiar with modding.Įver since I installed Skyrim SE, I've only used Vortex, so I'll have to get very familiar with MO2.īefore that, I'll have to safely migrate my mods from Vortex to MO2. Not to mention other persistent issues, like messing up my load order ( LOOT integration sucks) and flagging perfectly good plugins as incompatible (example: sosracemenu.esp). If a piece of software is forcing you to modify your established setup after every update, it simply isn't worth it. Whenever I ask for support, the answers are along the line 'you should change this and that in your computer settings' - even though it used to work fine before. I have to be perfectly honest: I've had it with Vortex.

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