Is there a way via NuGet.exe or within Visual Studio 2022, natively or via the Package Management Console, to only re-download all packages for a given solution and/or project without re-installing them?
This may sound odd, but we occasionally run into a scenario where our packages path mappings get wonky, and we correct the paths in the .csproj files and whatnot, but Visual Studio believes that the packages are installed due to their listing in the packages.config, yet in our mapped packages path, they are not downloaded.
We do not want to reinstall, as for many projects, that uninstalls and reinstalls the packages, causing unwanted changes to the code, as default templates and other things get changed.
We simply want to say "Hey Visual Studio, you see all these packages that you think are downloaded and installed in C:\NuGetPackages...? Yeah, they are not there. Please just download them. Don't reinstall them please."
Any way to do this in 2022 yet?