Mod Managers

Overview

Mod managers, or mod enablers, give you a GUI and organized way to manage your mods and easy install and uninstall with just a click.

OMM - Open Mod Manager

• The most modern and advanced mod manager out of the popular ones
• Advanced mod management, new features, increased stability, and ongoing development
• Recommended
• Download: https://github.com/iquercorb/OpenModMan

Backup and Restore OMM Data

Backup:

• You want to backup the Hubs: You can find the folder location by opening the Hub and then clicking Hub > Properties, it will be the Home Directory location
• Backup by copying or zipping the Home Directory folder

Restore:

• Restore by copying or extracting your backup and then using File > Open, navigating to your restored folder, and selecting the Hub's OMX file

Backup and Restore Individual Channels

Backup:

• Find your Hub folder in Hub > Properties: it will be the Home Directory location
• Open the Home Directory folder
• Copy or zip the Channel folder

Restore:

• Close OMM if it is running
• Copy or extract your backup into the Hub's Home Directory
• Start OMM, open your Hub if not already open, and your Channel should come back automatically

This allows you to archive old, unused game folders/drops, backup and remove OMM Channels so they're not cluttering your Channel list, and still have a recovery path if you want to go back.

OVGME - Open Generic Mod Enabler

• Takes JSGME and adds great new features
• One excellent feature is the ability to store mods compressed in zips
• Download: https://github.com/jweisner/ovgme - Download link under "Releases"

How To Backup or Recover OVGME Configs

• Backup C:\ProgramData\OvGME by copying or zipping the folder. This is the location on Windows 7, other Windows versions may have a different location.
• Restore your backup to the same folder
• Start a new OvGME (for example, after installing a new windows) and all your Configs should be back

After upgrading to Windows 10 I thought I had lost all my OVGME Configs and that meant I didn't know which mods were installed anymore and reinstalling them would lose the ability to uninstall back to a clean slate.

After reading the source code over at Github I got the hint that Configs are stored here as just a bunch of files that you can copy:

C:\ProgramData\OvGME

At least on Win7, the folder location might be different on Vista, XP, etc.

Anyway, all I had to do was copy that from my backup to my Windows 10, start OVGME, and all my Configs were back and it still knew which mods I had enabled or not!

I'm so happy I found that it was a major annoyance and I was almost going to go back to JSGME (which stores all config in the same directory as the exe) but now I don't mind this as long as I know I can simply copy the ProgramData\OvGME folder and I'll still have all my configs!

JSGME - JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler

• The original mod manager that inspired the others
• Great features for the time but others do it better now
• Download: https://www.moddb.com/downloads/5-jsgme-modenabler