Ol' John
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 |  Subject: Backing up your game along with our mods (Works for Skyrim as well) Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:53 am | |
| Hello fellas! I've search for instructions about making a backup of your game without losing your mods on VGU and found none. The thing is that eve if we take all our Fallout/Skyrim folder and back it up, we'll still lose all our mods information on the Nexus Mod Installer, which is a pain in the arse bc we won't be able to manage it properly, see if there are updates, etc. Well, there is a way to make NMM recognize it, but we need to back up more than just the installation folder of our games! Here are the steps, it worked for me, not the first time nor the second but I eventually got it right in the end. (taken from Nexus Wiki): - Light in the darkness:
How to back up NMM:
Create a backup folder on your Desktop or somewhere on your hard-drive that has plenty of space
Create the following folders inside your backup folder:
Data
ini
Install Info
Plugins
Backup your game's Data folder (eg. C:\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data for Skyrim) by copying (not moving) all the files and folders from the game's Data folder to your newly created Backup/Data folder (for games like Skyrim you can skip the default BSA files that the game installs in the data folder if you so wish)
Go to your NMM folder for the game you're backing up (eg. C:\Nexus Mod Manager\Skyrim for Skyrim) and copy (not move) the content of the Install Info folder to your Backup\Install Info folder.
Go to where your game's .ini files are located (eg. My Documents\My Games\Skyrim for Skyrim) and copy (not move) the Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini files in to your Backup\ini folder.
Go to where your game's plugins.txt and loadorder.txt files are located (eg. C:\Users\{Your User Name}\AppData\Local\Skyrim for Skyrim). You might need to find this folder by using the address bar if you have not turned on hidden files in your computer settings. Copy (not move) the loadorder.txt and plugins.txt files to your Backup\Plugins folder you previously created.
Restoring NMM back to your backup settings
Go to your the game's Data folder and copy the contents of your Backup\Data folder to it (overwriting if asked)
Go to your NMM folder for that game, open the Install Info folder and delete everything that's in this folder. Then copy the contents of your Backup\Install Info folder in to it.
While still in your NMM game's folder, go in to the Mods folder and delete the ModProfiles and VirtualModActivator folders if they exist.
Go to where the .ini files are located and overwrite them with the ones from your backup in Backup\ini.
Go to where the loadorder.txt and plugins.txt files are located and overwrite them with the ones from your Backup\Plugins folder.
This is ultra useful when you have no choice but to format your system, I have just way too many mods that I customized along the way and simply can't remember how to do it again, so it would take forevah to reinstall every single thing. Hope you guys find it as trouble-saving as I did. |
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