SKYRIMLE Tes5Edit No Save Option after cleaning

[CplDevilDog]

TES5Edit is not giving me the Save window after I clean Update.esm.

 

I am following Gamer Poets video on cleaning the Update.esm file using TES5Edit through Mod Organizer.  Everything works fine until I close TES5Edit.  I do not get the option to save the cleaned Update, the program just terminates and I am back in MO with LOOT complaining the esm is still dirty.

 

I have tried pressing Control-S  as TES5Edit's documentation suggested you could force the Save window to appear but no luck.

 

I suspect I have a very large hole in my understanding of the way MO handles ...well, everything 😞

 

 

 

[hishutup]

you literally have to close the window, no joke.

After which a box will pop up

[GrantSP]

Are you sure you have actually made edits to the file?

If it doesn't need to save anything, then no save dialog will appear.

[fireundubh]

MO doesn't let you modify Non-MO-handled files, even if you do get the save dialog and save.

 

I had to copy the ESMs to a mod folder, rename them, activate that folder as a mod, clean the renamed plugins, save, and then rename them back.

[A_Dim_Mismatch]

Maybe this goes without saying, but just make sure to make a backup whenever you save. That way if something goes wrong, you can always start over.

[GrantSP]

MO doesn't let you modify Non-MO-handled files, even if you do get the save dialog and save.

 

I had to copy the ESMs to a mod folder, rename them, activate that folder as a mod, clean the renamed plugins, save, and then rename them back.

I don't know how you have your system setup, but that doesn't sound correct. MO should allow you to do what you want with 3rd party tools on those files.

 

As part of my install of Kelmych's Clear & Present Danger pack I had to clean my vanilla esms, I just got the GOTY version recently and hadn't yet cleaned them, and I just start xEdit from MO, select the esm and clean it. The cleaned esm takes the place of the original and a backup is place in the FO3Edit Backups folder.

 

EDIT:

Yep, just checked it with my re-installed FalloutNV. Ran LOOT to check that the DLCs were dirty, then ran xEdit and cleaned HonestHearts, checked again with LOOT and it is now clean.

 

I am currently trying to assist someone in the Nexus forum that is having issues with xEdit and MO and he didn't have the check in the 'Backup Plugins' which meant his files weren't ending up where he expected, or at least they weren't named the way he expected. Perhaps this too is a case of not having the right options set in all the tools?

Edited January 22, 2015 by GrantSP

[GrantSP]

TES5Edit is not giving me the Save window after I clean Update.esm.

 

I am following Gamer Poets video on cleaning the Update.esm file using TES5Edit through Mod Organizer.  Everything works fine until I close TES5Edit.  I do not get the option to save the cleaned Update, the program just terminates and I am back in MO with LOOT complaining the esm is still dirty.

 

I have tried pressing Control-S  as TES5Edit's documentation suggested you could force the Save window to appear but no luck.

 

I suspect I have a very large hole in my understanding of the way MO handles ...well, everything :-(

If you could provide the paths to all the tools and files involved and also determine the level of UAC that you OS has imposed.

Clearly there are users like yourself that are experiencing a vastly different result to what the rest of us are. If we can pinpoint the differing variables then the instructions can be clarified to cater for all setups.

[CplDevilDog]

Thanks all for your replies.

 

This is my second attempt at setting up a stable version (first was partial STEP using NMM) and I was able to successfully clean all esm's then. I was kinda suprised when the save option did not appear on exiting TES5Edit.

 

you literally have to close the window, no joke.

After which a box will pop up

Yup, still no worky

 

 

Are you sure you have actually made edits to the file?

If it doesn't need to save anything, then no save dialog will appear.

I think so, I am following through to "Undelete and Disable References".

 

I will post my File Paths this afternoon and do some more troubleshooting.

 

Thanks again!

[CplDevilDog]

OK,  thanks for your patience.

 

Skyrim.exe  is in  C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim

 

MO.exe is in C:\Games\ModOrganizer

 

and TESVEdit is in C:\Games\TES5Edit

 

Won't have any time to work o this though until this afternoon.

 

 

Have a great day everyone!

[GrantSP]

Make a backup of one of the DLCs using a Windows explorer window, or your favourite file manager, and then run xEdit from outside MO and clean it and try and save.

If it succeeds then the issue is with MO's setup of the tools. If it fails then there is an issue with the files themselves or xEdit.

 

Assuming failure, make sure you are using version 3.0.33 of xEdit (TES5Edit is just a renamed copy), and repeat those steps. If it still fails ensure the files haven't been set to 'read-only' somehow or some other file system isn't accessing them at the same time and thus not allowing xEdit file-write access.

[CplDevilDog]

I updated my version of MO and this seems to have solved itself.  Thanks everyone