DyndoLod requiring Update.esm be cleaned

[Fairy]

It's refusing to generate because it wants me to clean the update.esm and a CC mod. I was always told and read that you shouldn't ever clean the update.esm because it can cause problems. I actually remember doing that at one point, by mistake, and borked my game so badly I had to deleted a lot stuff and re-download. Yea or Nay on doing what it wants?

[-={LG}=-]

You can clean Update.esm, just ignore the "wisdom" du jour. If you're afraid of harming your game, just make a copy of the .esm's you're fixing to clean so you can just copy them back if you feel they got broken.

I've never experienced a problem from cleaning a master file, even when four or five people were calling me foul names and questioning my ancestry for doing it. All the Bethesda games I play run solidly and smoothly and I've cleaned every master in all of them.

[smr1957]

Do NOT clean any of the Master files or CC content! ANY information saying to do so is outdated by quite a number of years.

See the subsection Cleaning the Masters and Creation Club Content in the following:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2880736526
(from the PINNED TOPIC Helpful Links and References)

[ScaredCraZzy]

everytime ive cleaned the masters it ♥♥♥♥♥ up my skyrim installation and breaks my saves

[Ozymandias]

You only need to run the "undelete" script in xEdit, it should never cause any trouble.