Speed up NMM launch time
NMM like FOMM and OBMM has the same problem with slow launch times once youve got a lotof mods, and with NMM being a download utility aswell, can be pretty frustrating. The problems caused by having alotof large mod archives in the NMM mods folder which it likes to scan before starting up, but its unnecessary cause it only needs to know the file names match. A way around it is to trick it at the scanning stage by making it look at dummy archives instead of the real mods. You can still install the real mods once the programs launched, you just need to swap out the dummy file with the real one before double clicking it to install. Ive worked out a streamlined way of doing this where you only need to change two folder names to work it.
The simplest way to set it up is duplicating the whole mods folder, minus actual mod contents, and just changing the folder names around after
1) Rename your NMM mods folder with an extension like bak or original, then make a new folder in the same place with the default name, like "NMM mods bak" and the new dummy folder "NMM mods"
2) copy the cache and downloads folders to the new dummy folder
3) copy all the cache files and paste them in the main part of new folder where the archives go and remove the file extension .zip at the end (will need to change your windows settings in Appearance and Personalization/Folder Options/View and untick "hide extensions for known file types")
4) launch NMM, then go back to the two folders and swap them so you can access the actual contents to install. (could add dummy to the end of that folder name)
5) To keep it organized, remember to launch NMM and swap the folders before clicking on 'download with manager' and as soon as the mods downloaded, look for its entry in the cache folder and add a copy to the two dummy subfolders
6) after closing NMM, swap the folders back around so next time you launch it, it loads the dummy archives
This may sound overcomplicated, but its alot quicker than waiting several minites every time you launch the program when theres several GB worth of mods archived there.
