I had a Windows crash while NMM was uninstalling a mod. On restart, NMM took me through the 'New Version Setup' process. I chose 'reinstall', it uninstalled all mods, but then had an exception error and crashed. I found that 'VirtualModConfig.xml' had been corrupted, presumably from the Windows crash. There were no backups of it, and all my mods were now uninstalled, so I lost a lot of work.
Feature request:
It would be very helpful if NMM automatically created backups of its essential working files. NMM already creates backups of '...\Install Info\InstallLog.xml' but I believe that's the only one. The backups could be limited to .xml files which are frequently updated when modding and affect a user's entire install/profile, eg:
Background:
I had a Windows crash while NMM was uninstalling a mod. On restart, NMM took me through the 'New Version Setup' process. I chose 'reinstall', it uninstalled all mods, but then had an exception error and crashed. I found that 'VirtualModConfig.xml' had been corrupted, presumably from the Windows crash. There were no backups of it, and all my mods were now uninstalled, so I lost a lot of work.
Feature request:
It would be very helpful if NMM automatically created backups of its essential working files. NMM already creates backups of '...\Install Info\InstallLog.xml' but I believe that's the only one. The backups could be limited to .xml files which are frequently updated when modding and affect a user's entire install/profile, eg:
'...\Virtual Install\VirtualModConfig.xml' '...\Mods\ModProfiles\ProfileManagerCfg.xml' '...\Mods\Categories\Categories.xml' '...\Mods\ReadMe\ReadMeManager.xml' '...\Mods\ModProfiles\xxxx\modlist.xml' '...\Mods\ModProfiles\xxxx\profile.xml'
This feature would be separate from NMM's manual 'Backup and Restore' functionality, which performs a much more complex task.