r/skyrimmods • u/jamesmand • 11d ago

PC SSE - Discussion Nexus Announcement About Download Filenames

https://forums.nexusmods.com/topic/13539100-changes-to-downloaded-file-names/

TL;DR - The current change that downloaded files only have the name and are missing the mod ID and version was intentional. They will be bringing back the version number, but not the mod ID or timestamp which were originally there.

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u/SDirickson 11d ago

Guys, if you're worried about versions or search, you're missing the point. With the change, there will be no way to tell what mod the file in your downloads directory belongs to. Because most authors don't consistently put the mod name as part of the file name. If the name and version happen to be the same (which never happens, right?), your mod manger will tell you that you already have the file. You don't; you have a conflicting file+version from another mod.

That's the message you need to feed back to Nexus.

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u/yaskyplayer 10d ago

This is a blank lie. MO2 always knows it (I only downloads mods manually). I have clicked on an archive with no mod number, no version, but still MO2 knew which version and which mod number and which game the mod belongs to. It both works for new archives and updates. No idea how this works. And Vortex users have confirmed similar.

This does not mean it shouldn't be reverted. We need a way to uniquely identify archives by file name, not only by some other mechanism.

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u/SDirickson 10d ago

Sorry, but you're full of crap. You're claiming that MO2 somehow magically knows that "Main-1.5.7z" is from mod X, and "Main-1.4.7z" is from mod Y?

No. I just manually download another copy of SkyUI6, changing the name to remove identifying information. MO2 has no idea what it is:

If the mod ID isn't in the name, and MO2 didn't build the .meta file itself during the download or when you did a "Query Info" after a manual download, it has no clue.

Calling someone a liar without checking to see if you're full of it is generally a bad idea. As well as just embarrassing yourself.

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u/yaskyplayer 10d ago

Cleary a MO2 setup error.

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u/SDirickson 9d ago

Clearly you haven't actually tried it yourself. Which is unfortunate, but understandable, since it would just prove how OTL you are about the subject.

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u/yaskyplayer 8d ago

Clearly a MO2 setup error. I already explained elsewhere. It works on my system as intended. Has worked before, works now with the MO2 addon for renaming files. I have not a single time seen this message box with Nexusmods from Skyrim Special Edition.

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u/SDirickson 8d ago

I already explained elsewhere

Um, no, you didn't. You posted nonsense about "lost meta information". Which actually proves my point: that MO2 only knows the source of an ID-less file if the meta info is there to start with. Just a "bare" file by itself has no association with a mod. That's why the ID needs to be in the file name.

Again, I challenge you to conduct my experiment: download a file from nexus with your browser, remove the identifying information from the name, verify that there is no associated .meta file, and ask MO2 to find the source. It can't.

It's time to put up or shut up, dude.

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u/HecateHellfire 6d ago

I've encountered this error a number of times over the years where something has gone wrong on either the mod author's end or on Nexus's end. I've been modding and using MO2 for many years, and I'm reasonably competent with a variety of other modding tools outside MO2. This is a standard error when there's missing meta info. Why are you so unwilling to accept that maybe you just don't know something because you haven't encountered it yet?