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LOL. I'm with you on that one, Greg! :) Grant does make good points about the necessity (or un-necessity) of backing up some of the tools, but I'd rather know that I have EVERYTHING I was using for a stable install backed up. Thanks both of you! Mark

Now that I have a good, stable game with over 200 mods installed - thanks to my recent discovery of S.T.E.P. and switching from NMM to MO - I'd like to be able to preserve that stable setup so I can restore from a backup in the event I need to reinstall Skyrim (HD crash, new computer, etc). What exactly do I need to backup and how would I go about restoring it? Thanks!

I'm looking for info on how to restore my mods after reinstalling Skyrim. I have a nice stable game with well over 200 mods. I don't want to risk having to reinstall, configure and troubleshoot all of that again! For instance, if I go to a new computer, is it just simply a matter of reinstalling Skyrim, copy/pasting the MO folder and firing up Skyrim? (That sounds way too easy!)

If this is answered elsewhere, please let me know. I did do some searching, but was unable to find any posts that addressed this directly (or in a way that I thought I could use for my question). I have a good, stable install of Skyrim with about 250 mods. I've used Mod Organizer, LOOT, TES5Edt and WryeBash to get it there. I'd like to know how exactly to properly backup everything Skyrim-related to be able to uninstall everything (game, mods, etc) and then later restore Skyrim back to its current stable state. What is the best step-by-step process to do this?