having issues with vortex

[TitanSlayer85]

Playing Oblivion Remastered with mods was working fine the other day.  Had an unrelated hard drive issue that forced me to swap to a new one.  Installed everything fresh.  now I get this when trying to mod Oblivion Remastered (Deluxe btw).  I have tried veryifying files of the game through steam.  I have reinstalled vortex.   Should I uninstall and do a fresh reinstall of vortex?

 

Edited because just incase you needed to know I am using the 1.13.7 (latest stable version as of January 2025) 

the error message pops up in a red popup on the right anytime i deploy or install additional mods.

 

mod is ue4ss 3.0.1a

 

ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'C:\Users\{myusername}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\oblivionremastered\mods\UE4SS-32-3-0-1-a-1748177853\mods.json.original'
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'C:\Users\{myusername}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\oblivionremastered\mods\UE4SS-32-3-0-1-a-1748177853\mods.json.original'
Prior Context:
    at Object.copyAsync (C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex\resources\app.asar\renderer.js:9713:16)
    at ensureModsFile (C:\Users\{myusername}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\plugins\Vortex Extension Update - Oblivion Remastered Vortex Support v0.1.6\index.js:2999:31)
    at async esureModsFileEntryAdded (C:\Users\{myusername}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\plugins\Vortex Extension Update - Oblivion Remastered Vortex Support v0.1.6\index.js:2918:25)
    at async onAddMod (C:\Users\{myusername}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\plugins\Vortex Extension Update - Oblivion Remastered Vortex Support v0.1.6\index.js:2898:9)
    at async C:\Users\{myusername}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\plugins\Vortex Extension Update - Oblivion Remastered Vortex Support v0.1.6\index.js:2326:13
    at async onDidDeployLuaEvent (C:\Users\{myusername}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\plugins\Vortex Extension Update - Oblivion Remastered Vortex Support v0.1.6\index.js:2338:5)
    at async C:\Users\{myusername}\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\plugins\Vortex Extension Update - Oblivion Remastered Vortex Support v0.1.6\index.js:2264:9

Edited May 26 by TitanSlayer85

[TitanSlayer85]

[ChemBoy1]

You should update to the Vortex beta branch. There are many fixes for OBR in there. 

The extension is trying to copy the file at the location shown during deployment. It is a backup of the original mods.json file for UE4SS. Not sure what happened to the file, but you can get around this error by making a copy of the mods.json file, renaming it as mods.json.original, and placing it at that location.

Ideally, the extension should do an fs.statAsync test on the file to ensure it exists before attempting to copy it, to avoid this error. 

[TitanSlayer85]

I will give this a try and let you know the outcome.   Thanks for your time I will go try this now.

[TitanSlayer85]

neither of these fixed the issue as I do not actually have the json file.  so I will try reinstalling both again.

[TitanSlayer85]

So this is what I had to do.  Open notepad click file - save as - mods.json.original and save it to the vortex folder it was pointing at.  It hasn't done anything with the file, it apparently just needed it there for a safety blanket or that one teddy bear your kids cling to when they are young so to speak.  other than that i see no reason for the file?

[ChemBoy1]

It's actually mods.txt that is the file included in UE4SS. The json file is used by the extension to set the enable state and load order for UE4SS mods. 

What's with the weird talk of teddy bears and blankies? Have you ever developed a single thing? Maybe avoid the condescending talk for things you don't understand. 

[Givemealeek]

14 hours ago, TitanSlayer85 said:

So this is what I had to do.  Open notepad click file - save as - mods.json.original and save it to the vortex folder it was pointing at.  It hasn't done anything with the file, it apparently just needed it there for a safety blanket or that one teddy bear your kids cling to when they are young so to speak.  other than that i see no reason for the file?

I'm having the same issue, but when I try to implement your fix,  it's just a txt file and doesn't solve my problem, unfortunately. is there something you did specifically to the file ?

[showler]

Make sure windows isn't adding tme .TXT suffix to your filename.

[djpeet]

 

On 5/26/2025 at 8:06 PM, TitanSlayer85 said:

So this is what I had to do.  Open notepad click file - save as - mods.json.original and save it to the vortex folder it was pointing at.  It hasn't done anything with the file, it apparently just needed it there for a safety blanket or that one teddy bear your kids cling to when they are young so to speak.  other than that i see no reason for the file?

Same issue. Wont work like you explained it