r/SRB2

I have made sure to put the mods in the addons folder of the game. the game is not installed in downloads or program files, but it's installed in a special tree of folders I have on one of my hard drives dedicated to games I download from the Internet. Every source I have checked thus far has made it clear that I have done everything right. And yet: when I go to the addons section of the main menu, and check the addons folder, it simply tells me that it doesn't detect any mods, even though I clearly have mods installed.

The error message says: Default folder\addons\ This folder is empty. (Press a key)

the two mods I have installed are the Trip mod (which is a .pk3 file) and the Jump Leniency mod (which is a .lua).

My addons folder being shown for reference.

I am using 2.2.1.5, which to my understanding is the latest version. I also have the SRB2 Reveries build installed on the same hard drive, which I would not assume would cause any issues, but I can't rule out it causing a conflict.

A screenshot of my folder to Reveries is

As stated earlier: other people have seemingly had similar problems, but this did not help me find solutions. I bring up this much detail so that people don't assume that I haven't done anything I'm supposed to do. Can anyone explain what's going on?

EDIT: I restarted my computer just to see if that would fix the issue. At first it seemed like the issue persisted, but then I noticed when I checked the addons folder, there were no files. So I copy and pasted the files onto who who the addons folder, and they now appear. But I can't seem to enable them for some reason. And restarting the computer again does not fix it. I'll try to look up why the addons aren't working, and if I can't find anything: I'll make a new post about this specific issue later. But back to the original issue: I suppose dragging and dropping create a dummy files or something, so there were actually no falls for the game to detect, Despite my computer telling me there were. So I guess that's the issue.