Problems with BOSS

[Kelmych]

The network that hosts the BOSS masterlist has been having problems lately. The masterlist updates the local BOSS program receives take a long time to download and aren't always correct, and BOSS then doesn't correctly sort mods (if it completes at all). If you want to use BOSS, this page on the Bethesda forum says you can directly access the full masterlist, and then

"Replace the BOSS/Skyrim/masterlist.txt with the one you just downloaded.

 

Then make the following change in BOSS.ini:

bUpdateMasterlist = false

 

This will force BOSS to use the masterlist.txt that you just downloaded manually instead of trying to retrieve it itself.

 

You can later undo this change to allow BOSS to automatically update itself, but this is a fix for now."

[rpsgc]

The direct link doesn't work, as in, BOSS doesn't accept it.

 

Use this older one instead:

Revision 6350 (2013-01-30)

[Kelmych]

The link to the full masterlist still works for me. I clicked the URL and then saved the page from the browser as masterlist.txt . I also tried copying the text into Notepad++ and then saving it but that doesn't work.

[EssArrBee]

Instead of changing the BOSS.ini you can also change it from the BOSS GUI. Under Run Options tick Sort Plugins and then untick Update Masterlist.

[stoppingby4now]

I just tried both methods (saving directly and copying to notepad++) for the masterlist (from the URL that Kelmych supplied), and BOSS ran happily and sorted. And I did disable updating the masterlist.

[PCG4m3r]

Thanks you! It was driving me crazy how long BOSS was taking and when it didn't recognize Dawnguard.esm, Hearthfires.esm, etc. I was like WHAT????  

[Neovalen]

BOSS is back up and running normally from what I can tell.