I had no idea there was a subreddit for this mod actually. But I used to have a pack on curseforge that someone put together for the mod that had the very basics of the game, nothing like Essential or anything else outside of simply running Pixelmon. Then I had several other packs dedicated to specific rps between myself and only my friend.
But then I changed computers. The internal keyboard for my old laptop broke and disconnected, so I bought a newer, supposedly better performing laptop. All of my files saved to my dash disappeared (that's fine I guess, most of the packs we didn't use anymore anyway). But the weird part is... when I try to re-download Pixelmon, my laptop freezes, the screen turns black sometimes, it stops responding, and for the first time EVER in my 10 years of having laptops I even ran into some kind of error saying "your device ran into a problem and needs to restart now". Curseforge doesn't do this to my random farming pack I put together for whimsy. It only does this for Pixelmon. Did the files of the official mod get corrupted or something? Am I doing something wrong? Did something update while I haven't played in months?