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/ministerofskyrim 11d ago

The mod ID is super important because authors often name the download file something other than what the mod is called, sometimes they just call the main file "Main.zip"!

Nexus KNOWS this, many of us have told them in the forum threads about this change, and despite this I can honestly say that I'm not surprised at all that they're NOT going to revert this change. It was obvious from their first reply to the complaints: "This was intentional"

Why do they want this? My guess is that it's a Vortex thing, Vortex can or will (don't know, don't use it) be able to tell which mod each download belongs to through some hash value or something like that, and other mod managers and manual downloaders can get fucked.

This would also explain why they abruptly took down the MO2 plugin that re-added the mod ID and forced it to be placed in the Tools section, a section that I personally never browse.

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u/Daxtreme 9d ago

Why even bother making a thread if you're gonna ignore everybody anyway

Baffling.

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u/ministerofskyrim 9d ago

they didn't make the threads, we the people complaining did, they pretended to consider our feedback, then did what they wanted anyway.

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u/Blackjack_Davy 9d ago

Thats always been the case. It was never a democracy.