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Application crashes on open in Windows

I have been using OpenMW for a while with little to no issue but I did some reshuffling to set up a linux/windows dual boot on my laptop and I had to reinstall the application. Ever since, the launcher has not worked at all. Occasionally I will get the "OpenMW has frozen, this should never happen" alert, but most recently it has just been quietly aborting every time I start the application. This is the contents of the openmw.txt log file:

[00:28:02.731 *] Loading config file: C:\Program Files\OpenMW 0.49.0\openmw.cfg

[00:28:02.742 *] Logs dir: C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\OpenMW/

[00:28:02.742 *] User data dir: C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\OpenMW/

[00:28:02.742 *] Screenshots dir: C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\OpenMW/screenshots

[00:28:02.742 I] OpenMW version 0.49.0

[00:28:02.742 I] Revision: 675146bd

[00:28:02.755 I] Loading settings file: C:\Program Files\OpenMW 0.49.0\defaults.bin

[00:28:02.757 I] Using default (English) font encoding.

[00:28:02.758 E] No content file given (esm/esp, nor omwgame/omwaddon). Aborting...

I tried adding a "data" folder to the folder it seems to be looking for everything and filled it with my Morrowind esm files but still got the same error.

Edited by quinn ferguson