Launch technic, creates .minecraft folder

[Dataluke]

Since the latest launcher update, when I try and use the launcher to launch Technic a .minecraft folder is created separately from the .techniclauncher folder and launches a minecraft with NEI but no mods. What the hell is happening?

[Torezu]

You, ummm, still need a .minecraft folder. The launcher is helpfully re-downloading Minecraft for you. As for why it's running with NEI and no mods, are you using the Vanilla option in the launcher menu? More details, please!

[Dataluke]

To clarify, when I use the launcher to launch Technic (not vanilla) a .minecraft folder is created in my Roaming folder outside of the .Techniclauncher folder.

The game window that is loaded seems to be this independent .minecraft folder rather than technic. The game that is launched is vanilla minecraft with NEI installed.

I have tried launching the other mods from the launcher, but no others have created an independent .minecraft folder

[Torezu]

To clarify, when I use the launcher to launch Technic (not vanilla) a .minecraft folder is created in my Roaming folder outside of the .Techniclauncher folder.

That wasn't clarifying - that was restating exactly what you said in the OP. You need a .minecraft folder - it's supposed to be there. If you don't have one in your Roaming folder, you may not have Minecraft installed, which will prevent you from using the Technic Launcher. Therefore, the launcher helpfully downloads Minecraft (which isn't very big) for you. Obviously your login works, so you're not using a pirated copy. My question is: what happened to your original .minecraft folder?

[Dataluke]

I have never needed a separate .minecraft folder in Roaming. The launcher would launch Technic just fine without one.

If the new launcher update requires a .minecraft in the Roaming as well as the .techniclauncher in there as well in order to launch Technic then that's fine.

What I want to know is why that .minecraft folder is being used instead of the Technic one inside the .techniclauncher folder?

[Torezu]

The launcher (and as far as I know it has done this since it was created) replaces the minecraft.jar in the .minecraft\bin folder with a modpack.jar every time you run it. This allows you to run unmodded Minecraft any time you want, to make modifications to an individual modpack.jar for gameplay reasons (Optifine versions, for example), and to run multiple different modpacks without reinstalling or changing Minecraft every time. I'm not sure how you ran the Technic Launcher without a .minecraft folder, but I don't think it should have been possible.

[Dataluke]

How it did it isn't that important at the moment. What I would love to know is why Technic is using this separate .minecraft instead of the Technic folder inside the .Techniclauncher?

[Brunswick]

How it did it isn't that important at the moment. What I would love to know is why Technic is using this separate .minecraft instead of the Technic folder inside the .Techniclauncher?

Because you need Minecraft to use Technic.

[JCarrelli]

In the hope of preventing future confusion:

The version of the Technic launcher that I run (under Linux, which may explain divergent behavior) functions quite happily without a .minecraft directory or vanilla Minecraft install.

The .jar files and binaries that the Technic Pack utilizes are located in ~/.techniclauncher/technicssp, in a replica of the vanilla Minecraft directory hierarchy.

Versions of the Technic Pack newer than 6.1.1 attempt to install some mods in .minecraft and some in .techniclauncher, leading to incomplete installations in both locations. This may explain the OP's observations.

All of the above has been tested only on my system and should not be taken to constitute either testing or a bug report.

Edit: If this does explain your problem, the obvious solution is to downgrade your install.