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YESSSSSSS!!! Apologies for my excitement but I'm THRILLED to be at the load screen listening to Malukah (Malukah and new title screen mod)! After about 90 minutes everything loaded and worked perfectly! You guys are the best!

Oops! Sorry, my bad. Much respect to Tannin - you've been the name in my mind because of all the great tutorial videos... which I evidently did not pay close attention to or I would have run SKSE and/or the TESV.exe much earlier on in the mod installation process.

Hahaaa! I know, right?! Now, I am not a programmer - but if I'm reading these DEBUG lines correctly, MO has been "findfirstfileex"-ing and "getfileattributesex"-ing (not to mention all the other things it needs to do when it first runs Skyrim and makes that virtualizing connection...my bad guess at your programming magic) anyway, it's been doing these thing to my 200+ mod list for the last 1hour and 20mins! I'm glad you built this thing like a boss, man! I'll let you know what happens when it's done - it went through all the textures and meshes now it's working on the sound files from Audio Overhaul... whee!! ;)

What's amazing is how much one can learn from continuously reading the ModOrganizer log file as it fills up! If what's happening here is REALLY what I THINK it is ... well then y'all are gonna be laughing your freaking butts off for a long time! Aaaand, DeathNeko is going to have an epic log file to see (if he wants me to email it to him). Again - I'm waiting on it being done and doing what I think it's going to do but - hahaaaa - I'm such an idiot. Looking forward to having this problem solved and making one heck of a funny story for ya'... I'll give you a hint... has anyone ever tried loading 200+ mods and organizing them in MO before ever even running TESV.exe? XD

Thanks for the help! That is a great troubleshooting guide post - it will take some time for me but I will try some of these suggestions. I am using SkyRe and so used the ReProccer, it seemed to work from within MO with no problems - I also used TES5edit to clean the main Skyrim, Update and DLC files. I have about 4 warnings from Wrye Bash and about 8 or 9 mods with dirty edits that need to be cleaned. I will start by disabling most of my mods and taking it from there...

Other, maybe, helpful notes: I've uninstalled all ENBs, I might have a few things lurking in my original Steam Data folder for Skyrim but I don't think so. Steam is on and I'm logged in (but I'm offline), I made sure TESV.exe is in administrator mode along with SKSE_loader.exe. My profile settings are set to Default and I do not have automatic archive invalidation checked. Thanks you all in advance for any help you can offer - I can't imagine going back to NMM or manually dropping mods into the Data folder after seeing the beauty of MO - even if, with my slow HDDs, it takes awhile to load 200 mods ;)

Hello all - I'm just coming back to Skyrim and have spent a week learning about MO and installing/configuring mods. Unfortunately, if I start SKSE or just Skyrim from MO the TESV.exe hangs in perpetuity and never reaches the bethesda logo. I think I've figured out what's happening via the ModOrganizer log (after trying hours of other possible fixes - always check the log first, doh!) Here's a snippet - it appears that .ini files are being looked for that don't exist and hanging TESV, maybe? Does anyone know a fix? Thank you for your time - "DEBUG (14:09:33.0785): all hooks installed INFO (14:09:33.0785): injection done DEBUG (14:09:34.0363): create directory C:\Users\COSMOS\AppData\Local\Skyrim\ -> C:\Users\COSMOS\AppData\Local\Skyrim\ DEBUG (14:09:34.0378): create directory C:\Users\COSMOS\Documents\My Games\ -> C:\Users\COSMOS\Documents\My Games\ DEBUG (14:09:34.0394): create directory C:\Users\COSMOS\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\ -> C:\Users\COSMOS\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\ DEBUG (14:09:34.0394): get file attributes: C:\Users\COSMOS\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Skyrim.INI -> D:\GAMES\ModOrganizer\profiles\Default\Skyrim.INI: 20 DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\games: GAMES (10) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\games\valve: VALVE (10) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\games\valve\steam.dll: Steam.dll (20) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): get file version size d:\GAMES\VALVE\Steam.dll -> d:\GAMES\VALVE\Steam.dll -> 1612 DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): get file version w d:\GAMES\VALVE\Steam.dll -> d:\GAMES\VALVE\Steam.dll: 1 DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\games: GAMES (10) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\games\valve: VALVE (10) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\games\valve\steam.dll: Steam.dll (20) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\GAMES\VALVE\steam.cfg: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex steam.cfg: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\games: GAMES (10) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\games\valve: VALVE (10) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\games\valve\steam.dll: Steam.dll (20) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\GAMES\VALVE\ClientRegistry.blob: ClientRegistry.blob (20) DEBUG (14:09:34.0503): findfirstfileex d:\GAMES\VALVE\ClientRegistry.blob: ClientRegistry.blob (20) DEBUG (14:09:34.0519): findfirstfileex d:\GAMES\VALVE\ClientRegistry.blob: ClientRegistry.blob (20) DEBUG (14:09:34.0519): findfirstfileex d:\GAMES\VALVE\ClientRegistry.blob: ClientRegistry.blob (20) INFO (14:09:34.0690): archive list limit removed at 00AFEE53 DEBUG (14:09:34.0784): createfile w: C:\Users\COSMOS\AppData\Local\Skyrim\.\Plugins.txt -> D:\GAMES\ModOrganizer\profiles\Default\Plugins.txt (80000000 - 3) = 000002B4 (0) DEBUG (14:09:36.0656): findfirstfileex Data\Update.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:36.0671): Data\Update.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:38.0497): findfirstfileex Data\Unofficial Skyrim Patch.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:38.0497): Data\Unofficial Skyrim Patch.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:40.0400): findfirstfileex Data\Dawnguard.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:40.0400): Data\Dawnguard.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:42.0303): findfirstfileex Data\Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:42.0303): Data\Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:44.0253): findfirstfileex Data\HearthFires.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:44.0253): Data\HearthFires.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:46.0094): findfirstfileex Data\Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:46.0094): Data\Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:48.0091): findfirstfileex Data\Dragonborn.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:48.0091): Data\Dragonborn.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:49.0729): findfirstfileex Data\Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:49.0729): Data\Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:51.0398): findfirstfileex Data\ApachiiHair.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:51.0398): Data\ApachiiHair.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:53.0285): findfirstfileex Data\Skyrim Project Optimization - Full Version.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:53.0285): Data\Skyrim Project Optimization - Full Version.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:55.0267): findfirstfileex Data\ClimatesOfTamriel.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:55.0267): Data\ClimatesOfTamriel.INI doesn't exist, no further queries DEBUG (14:09:56.0936): findfirstfileex Data\Ket_ARMONIZER_v2.INI: nothing found (2) DEBUG (14:09:56.0936): Data\Ket_ARMONIZER_v2.INI doesn't exist, no further queries"