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Hi all, just a quick question: Is it safe to remove mods from the Vortex download folder (C:/Users/___/AppData/Roaming/Vortex/downloads for me) once I've installed them? They're taking up a lot of space on my C: drive but I of course don't want to break anything.
This software isn't the creation of some major software developer and it's free. That makes me question the safety of using the Vortex mod manager and the mods. However, malwarebytes nor antiviruses don't flag it so I guess it's safe.
The easy but insecure fix is to disable the sandbox functionality in Vortex, let the installers run unprotected. But please understand that apart from being less secure, this also only avoids the problem for Vortex.
Posted October 17, 2022. It means something is broken in your setup most likely. Please see the pinned topic https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/11865088-microsoft-net-check-failed-vortex-167/?view=getnewpost.
Downloads are handy. Mods have a habit of vanishing every so often. Author gets tired or just vanishes. Rather than delete them, put them on a flash drive. You only need them if you want to reinstall. For normal running, after install, Vortex does not need the files in Downloads.
Alternatively, you can right click mods in mod view and click "remove" in the context menu to remove the mod, the archive, or both (you would want to only tick the box for archive).
One thing if you want to just run off without the guide, be sure you have your mods and game on the same drive! I wrote a comprehensive guide to using Vortex Mod Manager over on r/skyrimvr, and I thought we could use it over here.
Mods downloaded by Vortex can not get "borked". Maybe the download will fail, but Vortex will not be able to unpack a mod with a bad checksum.
I need to clear up some space and I found out that appdata takes lots of space and vortex files seem to take huge chunk of everything within. Are these only the initial installation files that I'd also use to reinstall mods if I need to, so these should be okay to delete?
To safe ourselves work and for better compatibility and since we had to depend on .NET anyway, Vortex uses part of the old NMM application (written in c#) to handle most mod installations even for mods that do not use the above format but these installers are the reason it just never made sense for us to rewrite that functionality.