TES5Edit - Clean Filed Stored in 'overwrite'

[Fonkin]

Following the guide from the very beginning and reading everything (5 hours in so far and have all the fixes in place) I ran into an interesting issue.

 

Everytime I cleaned one of the ESM files, it saved the clean file in the ModOrganizer\overwrite folder.  I was able to easily move it back to the skyrim data folder, but it took me some time for figure out why it kept moving.  Maybe I have something misconfigured, but that I would pass this along in case the STEP instructions need updating or someone else has this issue.

[Nozzer66]

That's not unusual. It's something that happens to some people but not others.

 

If it happens just do what you did, which is fine, or alternatively, put all the cleaned esm's in a mod called 'Cleaned Vanilla ESM's' and place it just before SKSE. Then put the backups back in the data folder and rename as necessary.

[Fonkin]

Thank you for the confirmation.  Maybe one of our fine authors can update the STEP instructions to mention this as a possibility.

Edited December 29, 2016 by Fonkin

[GrantSP]

Thank you for the confirmation.  Maybe one of our fine authors can update the STEP instructions to mention this as a possibility.

Not sure where you are reading the instructions but this has been included in the STEP guide for sometime.

[Fonkin]

I was reading the "In the second case, you are done!" - I saw that the file was cleaned up, but not in the directory I was expecting.  I expected it to leave the cleaned up ESM file in the same one it started in, not the overwrite.  Also, I only have SSD in my system, so I figured naturally I would go to option 2.  Doh!

 

But reading option one even more closely, I see that we're leaving the original in place and using the cleaned-up one as a mod through MO.  I understand now.  Guess I was getting to tired for my own good. 

 

Danke!

Edited December 31, 2016 by Fonkin