Vortex uses what are essentially advanced shortcuts (hard links) to make files available in the Fallout 4 folder. This method has several disadvantages: Hard-links can only be used to link files to ...
I will be focusing mainly on moving from Vortex to MO2 since that is the direction most users go. For this example I will be using Fallout 4 as my game, but the process is the same for any game ...