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Morrowind plugin list backups are broken #1501

Open LostDragonist opened 3 years ago

LostDragonist commented 3 years ago

Last tested on MO 2.4.1 with Morrowind

Plugin List backups for Morrowind don't really do anything. The plugin list backup just copies plugins.txt, loadorder.txt, and lockedorder.txt to a new file and the restore just copies the files back. Morrowind stores the order/state of the plugins in Morrowind.ini so this really doesn't do anything.

The backup / restore stuff should really be routed through the game plugins to work properly. Maybe it should even be a game feature or something.

(Side mission: Look for other stuff in the main program that uses plugins.txt directly instead of going through the game plugins.)

FeuerTiger86 commented 2 years ago

Strangely, I know that this used to work, and I still have a plugins.txt from August 2020 which has all the plugins I was using at the time in it. But now it is never updated, and new profiles (or instances) just get empty plugins.txt files. Therefore, backup/restore doesn't work (but I'm pretty sure I was using this in 2020, unless I'm confusing it with a different game I've been using MO2 with since then). I also did use tes3view (the xEdit fork that can be used to view the contents of Morrowind plugins) to detect conflicts, and I still do, however, now the pre-selected plugins are no longer updated to my current load order, but still use the old plugins.txt that's not updated any more. Of course, if I delete it, no plugins are selected when I start tes3view.