Minion not detecting my ESO Addon directory
 

Is this ever going to be fixed?

Cause I see you guys talking about it last month

Basically won't detect the Addon folder in My Documents

Yes it was fixed awhile ago. We now search for the ESO game installs (NA, EU, PTS) and if they are found we then look for the AddOn directory and even make the directory if it is missing. Have you tried deleting your minion.xml and restarting Minion, its possible yours is a little messed up (can only guess with out looking at it)?

If after you've deleted or renamed your minion.xml and its still not working can you please post your new minion.xml and minion0.log? http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=236

deleted the xml, that worked, thank ya

Sigh...
I have followed your Install/Setup Instructions carefully....many times !!
I have installed/unistalled Minion many times.,..
I have deleted minion.xml
Nothing I do works..so far
I am not a computer nerd though I am pretty computer savy.
When it comes to "Find AddOn Folder" I get a list of Drives C D E
G & H to look in ....but nowhere does the AddOn folder appear, unlike
the pic in your instructions.
I am using Win8 64bit.
I would really appreciate your help.
Thankyou. *_*

Are you *certain* you're looking in the Documents folder and not the My Documents folder?

/edit: addons are located at this location: http://www.esoui.com/forums/faq.php?..._howto_install

I have the same problem
 

I have the same problem , my documents folder is for eso but on drive D: / . for reasons of space

Minion doesnt really support auto detection of AddOn folders not in the default documents folder location for ESO. That is something in the works.

If you already have a listing for the ESO game but its just saving the addons in the wrong location just change the path under the options tab. Make sure to click on the last folder so that the full path is displayed at the bottom of the window before you hit select.

If the game doesnt show for you at all you can manually enter the game into Minion. Just press the Add Game button, select Elder Scrolls Online, then navigate to the path where your AddOn folder is now. Then make sure to click the last folder so the full path is listed at the bottom. Then just hit the select button and you should be good to go.

I've found that it's probably because of my documents folder, minion always tries to create the folders and files on the C drive but the data is on the D drive with me
I have solved the problem with a symbolic link.

Why just help plz
 

FIXED it , earlier i had a problem and now its fixed and i dont know how to delete this comment

minion is not working
 

I have re downloaded this so many times and still doesnt work i have tried deleting the xml i have selected the folder of eso then live then addons and it does nothing how do i fix this?????

Manually install 1 addon by downloading it here, put it into the addons folder.
Check the addons FAQ/Help here in the forum to see where and how: http://www.esoui.com/forums/faq.php?...em#faq_install

Restart Minion and select the addon folder again. Does it work now?

I had ESO installed through Steam.
The folder wasn't being found, even when I manually added it.
I tried deleting the .xml file.

What did work for me:
In settings you can select the folder search depth that Minion will use to find the folder.
I moved this up to a depth of 6.
I then clicked force Minion to redetect addOns.
Closed Minion.
Ran Minion.
Folder was found.

Hope this helps :) :banana:

Okay the CORRECT path was C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns\
Notice that path is Documents, not My Documents.
I noticed this was stated before, but when I go into Windows Explorer and navigate to
C:\Users\<username>\ there is a My Documents displayed in there, but not Documents.
Specifically, Windows displays the Documents folder as "My Documents", but the folder name is literally "Documents".
That was my point of error.

Ugh!
 

So it forces me to manually find the addons folder in Minions. Even though I have pointed to C:\Users\< username >\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\addons or C:\Users\< username >\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\ it still gives me a blank page. Any ideas?

Not sure. There might be some info in the minion.log. Attach it here and I can take a look if you like.

Sooooo. I just opened my laptop and tried again. It worked. Weird!

Help please
 

I get a blank page when I manually find the AddOn folder.

I can't locate a minion.xml or minion.log file in the folder that the minion app is saved to

I tried manually installing an addon from this site, there were already a couple of working ones installed (I just downloaded Minion because I can't get skyshard to work) made no difference

I don't know what to do

I'm finding the AddOn folder fine, I know it's in Documents and not My Documents.

I'm doing this on two machines, mine and my girlfriend's and having the same issue on both

UPDATE - Restarting the computers seems to have fixed the issue in both cases, maybe add a line in the instructions advising a system restart after installation or as a first attempt to fix the 'blank screen' issue

Run it as admin worked for me.

Cool! This fix worked for me!

Same Issue
 

I seriously have to register an account because I can't even use your software? The addon folder isnt being detected. I show it the folder and it keeps asking me to do it over and over and over again. Common guys.

Fixed
 

Hit the configure button and bump up the directory depth. 4 is not enough if you're using a steam install of the game for example..

all you have to do is create a text file in the AddOns folder called AddOns.txt leave it blank but minion looks for that file in the log. Hope it helps :)

I also had this problem in Windows 10 and had only one blank field in the program. The program must be started as an administrator. Then it works correctly.

Doesnt work
 

I have ESO installed through steam, cant find the addon folder anywhere on my drive. I tried looking in the Documents folder that was mentioned in this thread, not there, not in the steam's ESO folder anywhere. So minion cant find it even with turning it to 6 and I cant manually add it because i cant find it lol.

Try to copy the following command into your start menu:
This should open a new explorer window in the documents folder which contains the "Elder Scrolls Online" folder. When you right-click on it and select properties, it should show you the correct path.

Thank you so much! that worked!

I've tried all these recommendations. Unfortunately I can't use minion at all. I have a rather complex home network and my PC is a member of a Windows domain. Does it not account for the change in path for domain joined machines?

Domain joined machines use for example:

C:\Users\username.domain\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns

if I manually download the addon and place it in the directory it works fine.

From the logs:

DEBUG 2019-01-21 13:07:44,174 [Thread-17] gg.minion.service.AddOnDetectionService:interrogateDirs(333): interrogating TOC: C:\Users\user.domain\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns\VotansMiniMap_v1.4.14\VotansMiniMap_v1.4.14.txt
DEBUG 2019-01-21 13:07:44,175 [Thread-17] gg.minion.service.AddOnDetectionService:interrogateDirs(380): Toc not found for: C:\Users\user.domain\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns\VotansMiniMap_v1.4.14\VotansMiniMap_v1.4.14.txt
DEBUG 2019-01-21 13:07:44,176 [JavaFX Application Thread] gg.minion.util.ProgressManager:lambda$null$1(37): Adding GamInstall ''ESO-1'' to ProgressManager.

This folder is wrong:
Did you maybe download and extract the file manually and thus the ZIP name was "VotansMiniMap_v1.4.14.zip" and the folder was created this way?

Remove it as Minion tries to read the txt file, which does not exist, and then hangs!
The folder must be only "AddOns\VotansMiniMap"

Minion not recognizing ESO addons
 

When I check Minion, it says I have no addons for ESO. ESO shows the addons and they work fine. How can I correct this so I can update addons as needed? :confused:

Did you read the sticky forum post about Minion troubleshooting?
If not, please do so and follow the steps there.

In addition:
-Set in Minion's settings (gear icon at top right corner) has set the scan depth to higher subfolder level.
-Disable Microsoft OneDrive or move documents folder from OneDrive back to normal C:\users\windows user name folder

I was having this trouble as well so I analyzed the issue on my PC. I am running Windows 10 Enterprise (1809) and I did the default install of both Minion and ESO. When I found where ESO had placed the addon folder it is not in the location specified in the information you have posted. For my install it is here:
C:\Users\Home\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns

I could not get Minions to accept that location no matter how many times I followed the instructions here to delete the minion file and run it as admin.

After some additional trouble shooting I got it to work by using these steps:

1) Close ESO and Minion
2) Manually download one mod (I used Map Pins because it is a simple install
a) Create a folder in the AddIns Directory named appropriate for the mod you have (for Map Pins the folder should be called MapPins)
b) Copy all of the files in the zip folder into the MapPins folder
3) Delete the minion.xml file (Mine was located in C:\Users\Home\.minion folder)
4) Start ESO and log in. Make sure that the Map Pins Add on is showing in the Add Ons section of ESO and it has a check mark to the left indicating that it is to be loaded. Select a character and press play. (This creates the AddOnSettings.txt file in the AddOns folder.
5) Close ESO
6) Start Minion and stop when it asks you to search for ESO or Warcraft.
7) Use the gear icon in the top right of the minion screen to go to settings.
8) On the folder Depth section set this to a value several greater than the number of folder names in the path to your AddOns folder (I used 10 even though my explorer only shows I had 6 folder names. It would not work with it set at 6). Save the settings and it will take you back to the search screen.
9) I then allowed Minion to use the default settings and agreed to continue on each screen.

Minion then detected my ESO install and found the Map Pins files. It works fine for me now. Some of the steps above may not be necessary but this is what worked for me.

After I changed the search depth to 6 and closed the ESO launcher, it was able to detect my Addon directory.

This worked for me. :D

Just in case you did not see it:
https://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8082

Each forum got (or can have) sticky threads and posts at the top.
Search there first if you look for answers to re-occuring problems, or at least problems that might others got as well.

Had this issue, fixed it by going into the AddOns folder and creating a blank txt file named "AddOns". Afterwards go into Minion and

1. Go into settings
2. Locate "Game Scan Depth"
3. Slide it to 6
4. Scroll up and press "Reset AddOn detection"
5. Close out of Minion.
6. Restart.

It found all my manually installed mods about 20 seconds after launching the client back up.

This fixed it for me! :banana:

I tried several of the fixes here and none worked. Then started thinking maybe Minion didn't have the rights it needed to write to directories...

Ran Minion as Administrator and it found my ESO Addons folder without issue.

For the ones posting "started as admin helped", read the link and you will get help

Minion not detecting ESO AddOns folder
 

I've tried everything listed in troubleshooting and everything I can think of and I still cannot get Minion to detect my game AddOns folder. I have manually tried adding it, I've uninstalled and reinstalled, I've deleted the xml file, and nothing. Please advise. The xml and log files are in Users/name/.minion instead of Users/Name/AppData/Local/Minion/ Not sure if that matters

It says in the log files you have added E:\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns\ as your addons folder.
This looks like the wrong folder.

Uninstall Minion.
Delete Minion install folder (C:\Users\xx\AppData\Local\Minion\) and your c:\users\xx\.minion folder
Download Minion 32bit version
Install NOT to the default folder but use any other folder like d:\Minion or e:\Minion
Add this install folder of Minion to your antivirus (Windows defender, Avira, Avast, Norton, whatever you use) whitelist/exclusion list/allowed list/whatever they name it.
Start Minion
Wait until update patch info popup shows.
Let it update to the newest version and restart Minion.
Choose your correct game's addons folder! It's not the game INSTALL folder but most probabyl c:\users\xx\documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live\AddOns
Read here https://www.esoui.com/forums/faq.php..._howto_install or here https://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8858 how to detect it (via the ingame screenshot e.g.).
Let Minion scan that folder and wait up to 5 minutes.
If Minion does not show anything in it's list, close it.
Start it again and wait ~3 minutes.
If nothing is shown close and restart.
Repeat up to 5 times and it should update then properly.

If not I'm lost and got no further advice sorry.

It started working
 

After trying differnet things for over an hour, I went to bed. I got up and now it is working. Thanks for your efforts.

Minion often simply does not show anything in the UI and it looks like it hangs. After closing and restarting it and waiting a bit it often "all of sudden" updates, if antivirus and firewalls or anti malware or other tools do not block it somehow.
Glad it works now, thanks for the info.

Old Thread Helped Install Minion
 

After installing Minion, from Start Menu, start Minion under Good Games Mods LLC, but RIGHT CLICK, choose More and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR!

This was mentioned before, but not directly!

Great Thread/Site!

It was mentioned directly, here:

You should always look at the sticky posts first, at the forums, as they contain most questions and answers and troubleshooting already.