mods folder nuked on first launch

[folknor]

Hi, thanks so much for Linux support - and AppImage was the best choice you could've made. Excellent!

So, on first launch it seems SMM nuked my mods/ folder, is that correct? Or was it a Satisfactory patch that did it?

I have no problem with SMM doing this, but it would be great if you did some log output to stdout/err for each mod that is deleted.

I had no problem remembering the mods I had installed, fortunately. And also, it was present in the old SatisfactoryModLoader.log, like

[INFO] Post-initializing mod content packages...
[INFO] Post-initializing mod /Game/Letters/InitMod.InitMod_C
[INFO] Post-initializing mod /Game/AlreadyPaintedWalls/InitMod.InitMod_C
[INFO] Post-initializing mod /Game/ExoSuitMod/InitMod.InitMod_C
[INFO] Post-initializing mod /Game/FLAGSMod/InitMod.InitMod_C
[INFO] Post-initializing mod /Game/FLAGGONFICSIT/InitMod.InitMod_C
[INFO] Post-initializing mod /Game/HyperBoosters/InitMod.InitMod_C
[INFO] Post-initializing mod /Game/GrenadesMod/InitMod.InitMod_C
... etc

Here's all the log output I got from my first session of SMM;

./Satisfactory-Mod-Manager.AppImage
20:47:44.890 › Checking for update
20:47:45.741 › Update for version 2.2.0 is not available (latest version: 2.2.0, downgrade is disallowed).
20:47:47.625 › Checking for update
20:47:47.912 › Update for version 2.2.0 is not available (latest version: 2.2.0, downgrade is disallowed).
20:52:47.635 › Checking for update
20:52:48.383 › Update for version 2.2.0 is not available (latest version: 2.2.0, downgrade is disallowed).
20:57:47.713 › Checking for update
20:57:48.942 › Update for version 2.2.0 is not available (latest version: 2.2.0, downgrade is disallowed).

If I am correct and SMM nuked the folder, you might want to mention this in the release notes or readme, or perhaps add logging and release a small update for it?

Thanks again!

[folknor]

(It might be worth noting that I never manually checked for an update to SMM, it just did that 4 times in 10 minutes by itself.)

[mircearoata]

Yes, that is correct, because it validates the mod install to the manifest: nothing. It can't add the mods to the manifest because it can't tell that you never used SMM before on that install.

I will add to the release notes that you should write down the mods you had, or check the SML log for the list.

And regarding the update check, it checks once every 5 minutes for updates for both SMM and mods.

[folknor]

Alright, no worries. Thank you! If you want to add more log output, linux users always enjoy that :-)