Launcher Issues

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I currently use Paradox Launcher v2 to run Stellaris.

I recently had some corruption (probably caused by myself editing the wrong file) of the game data.

The launcher does not have a "repair" feature, so my only option that I could find was uninstall and reinstall. It would be really nice to have a repair feature that doesn't require a 30 gb download.

Then, when the launcher uninstalled Stellaris, it also deleted all of my mods (several of which were custom ones I created for myself) and all of my saves, custom races, etc.

Why does uninstalling software equal nuking personal data? That isn't how every other uninstaller I have used behaves, isn't how steam behaves and shouldn't be how the Paradox Launcher behaves. Paradox Launcher v1 didn't do that either, in my experience.

 

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Now that I have restored things from backup, I have found the launcher in an illegal state.

It took some convincing before it would even try to look for mods locally on disk (I had to download one from paradox first), but now it can see and recognize the mods.

However, my playsets (which somehow didn't get deleted with everything else) all complain that the mods were removed from disk. But they are there and the launcher knows about them.

But the mods are where they were originally, which is also where Paradox Launcher v2 wants them, but the launcher can't find them.

I can make a new playset and add the mods, and things seem to be working correctly.