Discrepency when installing a collection in the app vs Vortex

[Pickysaurus]

Bug Report

Summary

I have installed a variant of the most popular Stardew Valley collection into the app with both Vortex and the app, then compared the resulting list of files in the game folder.

In this test, I've excluded the _folder_managed_by_vortex and vortex.deployment.json files as they aren't relevant to the end result.

Observations

• We still rename the StardewValley.exe file (did we agree to stop doing that?) so StardewModdingAPI.exe is absent.
• The folder Mods\East Scarp (1.6)\[CP] East Scarp\NPCs is missing, including all contents. This is concerning as this is a sizable chunk of the mod.
• The file Mods\Portraits for Vendors\[CP] Portraits for Vendors\assets\Credits.xlsx is missing. Are we being too opinionated about file extensions? Removing this file won't break the modding setup, but we also have no reason not to install it.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install this collection via Vortex.
2. Note all files in the game folder (excluding known Vortex meta files). - I used dir /s /b /o:gn > App_Files.txt in cmd
3. Remove the mods in Vortex (or just purge)
4. Install the same collection with the Nexus Mods app.
5. Note of all files in the game folder.
6. Compare the results (I used WinMerge).

Note: I did not hash the files, you can do this for a more detailed comparison.

What is the expected behaviour?

The install of the collection produces the same files in both Vortex and the app.

Other information

nexusmods.app.main.current.log nexusmods.app.slim.current.log App_Files.txt Vortex_Files.txt

[Pickysaurus]

The discrepancy seems to be related to #2194