Orbyte Posted May 1 Report Posted May 1 i have migrated to Linux Mint, and am in the process of migrating my old worlds into the new setup. i have my entire "users" folder from my windows system saved on an external drive, i have tried to copy the content of some of the folders in "VintagestoryData" that is on the disk into the corresponding folders in the new installation of VS on the new Linux system, but while the trick worked on the "VintagestoryData/Saves" and i can see all of my saves, it didn't work for "VintagestoryData/Mods". note that i copy/paste the content of "backups", "backupSaves" and "ModData", but not the other folders. don't know if i should have just copy everything another note is that i don't see any mods apart from the 3 built-ins in the in-game mod manager: but if i click "Open Mods Folder", it open this folder, which does contain mods: i am also unsure on how to download mods on linux in general, as i always just used the "1-click install" which doesnt seem to work on Linux and i didn't really understand how to preform the fix suggested here (or maybe i did preform it correctly but it just didnt work). am i suppose to unzip the mods after i download them?
Solution Diff Posted May 1 Solution Report Posted May 1 45 minutes ago, Orbyte said: i have migrated to Linux Mint, and am in the process of migrating my old worlds into the new setup. i have my entire "users" folder from my windows system saved on an external drive, i have tried to copy the content of some of the folders in "VintagestoryData" that is on the disk into the corresponding folders in the new installation of VS on the new Linux system, but while the trick worked on the "VintagestoryData/Saves" and i can see all of my saves, it didn't work for "VintagestoryData/Mods". note that i copy/paste the content of "backups", "backupSaves" and "ModData", but not the other folders. don't know if i should have just copy everything another note is that i don't see any mods apart from the 3 built-ins in the in-game mod manager: but if i click "Open Mods Folder", it open this folder, which does contain mods: i am also unsure on how to download mods on linux in general, as i always just used the "1-click install" which doesnt seem to work on Linux and i didn't really understand how to preform the fix suggested here (or maybe i did preform it correctly but it just didnt work). am i suppose to unzip the mods after i download them? Did you copy the clientsettings.json file? It contains the directory mods load from, so if you don't update that for Linux it'll be looking for a Windows path. Shot myself in the foot with that one a while back. Like you saw, the button still opens the Linux path ignoring what's in clientsettings.json which makes it even more confusing. 1
Orbyte Posted May 1 Author Report Posted May 1 @Diff this absolutely appear to be the source of my problems, thank you. i guess i forgot i copied the clientsettings.json too, changing the relevant value in that json to the correct path seems to have fixed things for now. do you know if there's a way to restore the entirety of the VintagestoryData folder into the state it was before i started messing around with things i probably shouldn't have messed with? because i think there are more files i messed with and don't remember, and i fear i am going to cause more issues to myself because of that
Diff Posted May 1 Report Posted May 1 1 hour ago, Orbyte said: @Diff this absolutely appear to be the source of my problems, thank you. i guess i forgot i copied the clientsettings.json too, changing the relevant value in that json to the correct path seems to have fixed things for now. do you know if there's a way to restore the entirety of the VintagestoryData folder into the state it was before i started messing around with things i probably shouldn't have messed with? because i think there are more files i messed with and don't remember, and i fear i am going to cause more issues to myself because of that Doing what you did, that one directory was only footgun I ever ran into. If you do want a reset, just delete VintagestoryData and the game will recreate it next time it boots, but at the cost of all your worlds and data. If you got the path fixed and your mods are working, you should be Most Probably Good To Go right now.
Orbyte Posted May 1 Author Report Posted May 1 no worries about my worlds, i still copies of them on my external storage device deleted VintagestoryData and downloaded my mods manually from the DB just to be on the safe side (hey the 1-click install also works now for some reason! guess it was the same issue of the incorrect path in the clientsettings.json) 1
Dark Thoughts Posted May 6 Report Posted May 6 To be clear, copying the zipped mod files into the mod folder is how you'd install them manually too (regardless of the OS) and how I prefer it generally, since you don't have to launch the game each time. The wrong config was the only issue here.
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