Problems with Nexus Mod Manager 0.61.5

[jemacdonald]

I just tried to upgrade Nexus Mod Manager 0.61.5 today and got a rude surprise.  The new version requires an upgrade to Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.  And guess what?  That upgrade requires Win 7 SP1 as a minimum.  Unfortunately, over the past 3+ years I have never been successful in getting win7 sp1 to install on my any of computers.  I have 3...2 of which I built myself (both with legal copies of win7) and an acer laptop with win7 pre-installed.  I've searched the web and tried all the recommended fixes with no luck.  So now, not only am I not able to upgrade to win10, I can't install .NET Framework 4.6 which makes NMM dead to me.  I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem.  I tried reverting to version 0.61.4 using the release notes and download links page in the Nexus Forums.  I successfully installed it but it will not start. I'm completely stumped. Does anyone have a way to reinstall a previous version on NMM that does not require NWT 4.6 to run? 

[nIn nIn nIn]

I would take your PC in to a qualified PC tech and see if they can get SP1 onto that PC for you. There has to be a logical reason why it won't install when you try do it.

 

My own copy of 7 OEM was bought when 7 was first released, so it's definitely not packaged with SP1 on the disk. SP1 has always installed using Windows update. I have done complete reformat and clean installs a number of times, including completely different hardware.

 

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With NMM, try completely removing NMM including the registry entries (not something a novice should attempt). Reboot, then attempt the 61.4 install.

[guk]

IIRC Windows 7 won't be able to run through the install setup if there is anything plugged into your USB 3.0 port.

[Guest Jezzy]

Something I dont like about NMM is that we found out that it create symbolic links to the mods you install in the directory where it is installed. In my case it sucks since I have my FO4 installed on a SSD but the mods installed with NMM are located on my old HDD I don't know how to move my NMM to my ssd without having to redownload everything

[nIn nIn nIn]

I successfully migrated my entire NMM folder onto my new SSD a year ago by copy and paste. I installed NMM onto the SSD (fresh install - registry stuff) then simply dropped the entire folder over it. Worked a charm. For me. I didn't have much installed in Skyrim at the time though - may have been a different story if the install had been bloated with 200 + mods.

[SlapMeSilly]

Something I dont like about NMM is that we found out that it create symbolic links to the mods you install in the directory where it is installed. In my case it sucks since I have my FO4 installed on a SSD but the mods installed with NMM are located on my old HDD I don't know how to move my NMM to my ssd without having to redownload everything

 

It's actually making hard links (multiple links to the same file) not symbolic. But anyway.

 

There's an option called Multi-HD in the virtual folders setup. My understanding is that it's there if you want to:

• Have game installed on drive1
• Mods downloaded on drive2
• Mods Installed and stored drive2

I don't personally use it, and the on screen help states it can impact performance, but maybe that's what you're looking for.

 

If you just want the NMM and the downloads stored on drive2 but when you install them to be on drive1 that's possible to. That's the setup I use. Note: Deactivating a mod in this mode does not free up the disk space used by the installed mod. You have to uninstall it (but not delete the archive - unless you want to). This will be signified by the red circle stating it's uninstalled but still extracted. This allows for faster activation and the support of the multiple profiles.

 

Either way it will uninstall and then reinstall every mod you have. So make a backup of your load order. And list of installed mods. When I did it, it failed during the reinstallation and I had to reinstall manually. Which isn't necessarily bad since I wanted to clean it up anyway.

 

My setup basically same as your scenario:

 

 

NMM installed in normal place "C:\Program Files\Nexus Mod Manager"

The game is installed to "C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout 4"

Mod archives are downloaded to "J:\Games\Nexus Mod Manager"

 

 

NMM downloads archives to J: drive and extracts and installs to C: drive. Then creates the hard links since they are in the same filesystem.

 

 

 

[Guest Jezzy]

Thanks SlapMeSilly, even if I can't still figure what the difference between a hard link or a symbolic link and whatnot, your explaination helped me a lot. I managed to move all my install info and mods files to my SSD. ^.^

 

Cheers!