Latest nightly as of July 8th 2019 - didn't include my games/openmw/data

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claudekennilol
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Latest nightly as of July 8th 2019 - didn't include my games/openmw/data

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Last night I installed the latest nigthly build (july 8 2019 windows x64) and it no longer included my "my games/openmw/data" folder to automatically pull mods from. I had to go into the config and manually add the path for that dir--I don't remember having to do this the first time I set it up (and reinstalling it didn't mess with the config so to me that implies something changed). Was this change intentional or did I just miss something when updating?
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Re: Latest nightly as of July 8th 2019 - didn't include my games/openmw/data

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What do you mean with folder to pull mods from? OpenMW does not automatically create a directory where you put your mods. You put them where you want and point to that directory in your openmw.cfg file.

So the strange thing is rather if your openmw.cfg suddenly lost the location for the mods when you updated. That file is not supposed to be touched when you update, unless you ran the .ini wizard again, in which case I think your old file gets replaced.
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Re: Latest nightly as of July 8th 2019 - didn't include my games/openmw/data

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Check if you global/local openmw.cfgs are intact, they should be present in your openmw installation folder and must contain that exact folder in the form of "?userdata?data" data-local path. You shouldn't ever need to add it into openmw.cfg.
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Re: Latest nightly as of July 8th 2019 - didn't include my games/openmw/data

Post by claudekennilol »

It looks like it's the Mod Organizer 2 export tool that's doing it. But it's odd because I never had to add that location in the first place.
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Re: Latest nightly as of July 8th 2019 - didn't include my games/openmw/data

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Sounds like we need to summon AnyOldName3.
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Re: Latest nightly as of July 8th 2019 - didn't include my games/openmw/data

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Yeah I don't know where the issue is. When I first posted this, I fixed it by adding "C:/Users/me/my games/openmw/data" to my mod paths in my config file. But I didn't have to do that initially--I only had to do that after I updated to the nightly build mentioned in my first post. So I don't know if the engine/launcher looked at that path without an entry in the config, if openmw-cs added it to the config when I made some simple global variable edits, or something else. But re-rereunning the MO2 export tool removed that line I added (which honestly I'd expect it to) so I don't think the blame lies with AnyOldName3's MO2 export plugin.
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Re: Latest nightly as of July 8th 2019 - didn't include my games/openmw/data

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C:/Users/me/my games/openmw/data
should be added automatically as a data directory by the install directory's openmw.cfg where it says

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data-local="?userdata?data"
When the engine is started, it combines all the data= lines in the install directory's openmw.cfg and the user directory's openmw.cfg, and then once all of those have been read, it adds the one directory set as data-local. My Mod Organizer plugin doesn't touch the data-local setting, so if you've broken it in your install dirtectory's openmw.cfg or overridden a correct value in your install directory's openmw.cfg with an incorrect value in your user openmw.cfg, that's why it's not working. I'd check both of those files for data-local lines.
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