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Thanks for the tip, I think I'll do just that since I'm preaty much 2/3s to 3/4s through the installation and I've been adding it all anyway. I may have to go back and review a coulple of things though.

Silly me I thought I was following the core guide. Now I realized that by installing every mod on the list (not just the ones with the green bar, I've been following the guide for Extended.

I'm Following the 2.2.9 guide (slowly) and just got to this part and I'm now a bit confused, in the very same section it recomends the mod https://wiki.step-project.com/Mystery_Modders_Shrines_HD Aren't this two mods intent to change the same objects? Is there a purpose to installing one and then the other? Isn't Ren's mod jus overwriting Mystery Modders Shrines? or does Mystery modders change something not covered by Ren's?

Skyfalls and Skymills was updated yesterday, it now has an option for compatibility with SDO, so I'm gessing I should install Skyfalls and Skymills with that option and ignore the patch for it in the optionals for SDO. Is that correct?

Ok that makes sence now. I've justo only started to use MO with STEP, and was up to step 2, so no many mods there yet to miss them on the skyriim/data folder. I gess I shouldn't have skiped the MO tutorial to start with eighter, as it mentions there the need to run Skyrim from the MO, that should have raised a Flag (I don't think I've read it on the STEP guide yet. I'm gessing it also keeps it's own version of skyrims .inis? as the modifications I did throgh MO were not showing up on the actual files on the Documents/My Games/Skyrim folder. Is that correct as well?

OK I've been trying to understand this, and I think I came to conclude that MO works very diferently from NMM in regards to installing mods. Is that correct? Does it copy the activated mods to the Skyrim/Data folder when lauching the game from within or does it make the game to use it's folders for resources? Do I understand it more or less correctly now?

I'm sorry but I'm really trying to get my head arround this. I know I created a mod named Cleaned Update ESM but this is only a folder in the mod organizer once activated the all the mod organizer does is to copy it's contents into the skyrim/data folder and activate the .esm right? the esm is still called update.esm so where is the clean esm in used once overwriten again with the clean file? it would make sence if the cleaned esm had it's name changed but I don't think the instructions direct to do this, do they?

No I didn't miss step 4, and that is exactly why step 5 makes no sence.

Well I'm also a bit confused, if the instructions are clear they are not making much sence to me. Not ont that particular step but in the last one: 2.B.5 - 5. Restore the backup created in step 1 to the <skyrim>/data directory. What was the point of going to all the trouble of generating a clean esm file and put it into a mod if we then replace the cleaned file with the original one?