Addons/ReShade Not Working :(

FrazzledFox · April 5

Hey all! I've never used the forums before but I cannot find any help anywhere else, I will likely be posting this to the ESO Reddit as well, but last year after the West Weld update my addons went all wonky. They normally wig out after big update since the addon makers havent updated them yet to the new version of the game, and I simply just ignore them and later update the addons through Minion once there is one available. This time was different through, it completely broke my game and I had to fully uninstall and do a repair. Only even after I fully uninstalled ESO AND minion and then re-installed ESO, it still shows my old addons I had disabled in the addons menu? I have looked high and low on my PC but I can't find anywhere they would be and have even tried deleting every file in regards to ESO then uninstalling ESO and reinstalling it again multiple times. I really miss having addons because trying to do crafting surveys or treasure maps lowkey suck without them.
The same thing happened with my ReShade, except now it just... doesn't recognize the ESO client?

Someone please help!!

Baertram · April 5

Usuallly this is related to OneDrive then, do you use MS onedrive? Disable that or at least the "backup documents" feature as it messes up your addons -> You locally update them and OneDrive restores old ones from the cloud :-(

If you do not use OneDrive: Check your antivirus, that it does not block Minion and allow Minion to update your c:\users\...\documents folder.
Avast Antivirus e.g. does that as it tries to protext txt files (document files like MS word, txt and so on) in your users directory. So that way it totally blocks the changes to live/AddOnSettings.txt and live/UserSettings.txt too, if you do not whitelist/add an exclusion to the antivirus software in teh anti-malware modules.

Take a screenshot ingame with vanilla screenshot key and chekc top right what folder it shows you:
If that is not c:\users\...\documents\elder scrolls onlien but something like c:\users\...apddata\elder scsrolls online then your gaem thinks the addons must have moved there (it's a known ESO bug and no one knows why and how to fix it :-(). You can only move your whole live folder to that new folder then to fix it and make Minion update that new folder too.