This worked for me. Thank you for your help.
What an absolute joke - I keep coming back to this game hoping that the people I gave my money to and put my trust in would actually have made some decent progress in fixing this game and every time I'm left more disappointed. It's so sad. Players shouldn't have to jump through hoops and spend a bunch of time to resolve this issue.
Regarding Paradox forcing mods onto the C:\ drive,
here's a post I found which advises how to change which drive the mods are installed:
Code:
if you have another drive you can use:
- move the Colossal Order folder to the other disk
- then run:
mklink /J "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Colossal Order" "D:\Colossal Order"