TES5EDIT : Cleaning your mods
In this video I try to help mod makers understand the basics behind cleaning their mod files. The video covers the basics of how to do it, and more importantly, why you should do it. I hope it helps.
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TES5Edit Cleaning Guide - TES5Edit
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A moderator has closed this comment topic for the time beingI'm trying to find a damn guide on the Net and can't find any...
So I'm starting over with Skyrim Special Edition and have only installed the Unofficial SkyrimSE Patch. I want to be as clean as possible as I start entering mods and clean them one by one.
So I started with Update ESM and followed the guide by Applying Filter for Cleaning, then Remove Identical to Master records, followed by Undelete and Disable References. Worked fine.
Next I tried Dawnguard.ESM, but when I Applied Filter for Cleaning I got a red section in Skyrim.esm, Update.esm and Dawnguard.esm. I went ahead and finished the steps above, saved and came back into Dawnguard.esm, but after applying the filter, I still had the red sections. For example, under Armor, four Falmer armor items were red, and displayed information in the Update.esm column, but no entries in Skyrim.esm nor Dawnguard.esm. So am I to manually copy the entrie from the one that has it into the other two to get rid of the warning. Not sure what to do, and there are many more entries like this.
Am I supposed to just blindly make all the red cells in a row be the same across all the columns for all the red entries?
Right on, and mod authors may have cleaned theirs recently with an earlier version, and not even known about the extra hits now with 3.0.29.
So please folks, be respectful if you're sending a heads up to an author! (They are awesome but probably not clairvoyant.
You should get your load order right ( BOSS ) before cleaning, so that dependancies are in the correct order
I do ..
1. Install / un-install mods.
2. BOSS
3. Clean mods ( But not the Unofficial patches ) - Apply Filter for cleaning / Clean UDRs / Clean ITMs
4. Bashed Patch
Play
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For anyone who may not have noticed - TES5Edit is now at version 3.0.2.9
And it cleans quite a bit more than the previous version did = Lots of mods out there need re-cleaning.
What do you recommend for a cleaning to playing step by step method. Someone should take to make the most stable play. Like 1: clean all your mods. 2: Run Boss 3: Bash patch 4: Merge 5: Kill things is how I imagine the whole process would be.
Mmm, Wyne Brash, I wonder how it compares with my Motörhead Shiraz?