Cleaning Official DLC Using TES4Edit through Mod Organizer

[RevReese]

Hi, I have a quick question about cleaning the official DLC.

I have my load order exactly how i want it and thought now would be a good time to clean the DLC.

Seeing as I am using MO, I was expecting the cleaned .esps to go into my overwrite folder but on the dlc i just tested this on it simply stayed as "unmanaged" i don't even know if that is the cleaned version or not.

Yesterday, I cleaned all the DLC at once (one at a time obviously but i only checked overwrite at the end) and they all went into overwrite and when i right clicked and "create new mod" and named it "Official DLC - Clean" but the unmanaged original DLC all vanished from the left pane and the game refused to launch due to missing masters.

I understand from looking around that i need to re-download the DLC from Steam after cleaning and use my clean DLC as mods but they do not appear as such so i don't know what to do!

Any clarification would be greatly appreciated, a step by step of cleaning Oblivion DLC maybe to confirm i am doing it right (which i am guessing i am not despite every YouTube video and forum post).

If it matters, Oblivion is installed to an external HDD so according the the STEP wiki, they should all go into overwrite to be sorted out.

https://wiki.step-project.com/STEP:2.2.9.2#2.B._Clean_the_Update_ESM (i know its for Skyrim but i assume it works the same).

Thank you.


Edit: I cleaned everything successfully and so far so good, i assume the cleaned .esps went into the Data folder and then MO just picked them up as if they were the original ones?

Not sure what happened yesterday then as MO is behaving differently today.

[cyäegha]

i've heard that the speed of both your storage media and your CPU seem to affect where the files end up, as odd as that sounds; on faster configurations they tend to end up in the folder they came from, and MO won't kick up a fuss, on slower configurations they tend to end up in overwrite, and you have to repack them as a mod

normally, at least for skidrim, i'd clean the files first before running MO for the first time, just to skip the trouble, but that only really works if you're only using MO for the one game

[RevReese]

Thanks for your reply, i read that too you're right it does sound odd! it does seem to be random for me, sometimes they end up in overwrite, sometimes not. I just cleaned the Skyrim DLC too and noticed that if i select "backup plugins" then the cleaned .esps go into overwrite along with the backups, and if i don't select backup then they are cleaned in place and replaced.

I am using MO for all my Bethesda games, (i just need to update my New Vegas install).

Well i suppose it is academic now as everything is ticking along nicely :)

[cyäegha]

glad to hear it's going peachy

i used to hear bad things about trying to run oblivion through MO, but if it's working out for you then go get 'em