Discovered I have Two Steam/Skyrim installs

[kayte]

I started using MO a few months ago and after nearly losing my mind figuring out how to work it, I screwed up my game and someone told me to verify the cache on steam and it would repair Skyrim. Before I did this I had Wrye Bash, Finis and TESVEdit all working great. After, nothing would work. I reinstalled a few times but Wrye and TES won't see my saves or Mod list. I've just given up trying to get them to work properly. I was getting freezes and CTD's but now after getting LOOT working, it's a lot better. Today I accidently discovered that there are two installs of steam and obviously Skyrim in different places. The original is in C: Games, the other in Program Files. I guess this is why TSVEdit and Wrye bash won't work. Can I safely delete the Steam folder with Skyrim in it? I only get 8Gig of internet a month so I really don't want to have to re-install. I only have about 4G left for 3 weeks :( Thanks for any help.

[Vulgar1]

To save time you could try uninstalling/removing the Skyrim/Steam that is not modded. Clean your registry. Then make sure all directory fields in every app/prog are pointing to the correct locations.

 

What I would do is figure out which game dolder conatains your Mod Organizer, Wrye Bash, and mods folders (basicall figure out which install is modded). Then I'd back up the modded directory by archiving it into a zip, rar, or 7zip file. Back up your saves. Then you might as well remove all other programs like TES5Edit, LOOT, BOSS, Wryebash, Mod Organizer, etc. Then I'd completely unistall both installations of skyrim and steam. Give your system a could cleaning especially the registry and restart your computer. Then reinstall everything, extract backups and overwrite, and then make sure all directory fields in every app/prog are pointing to the correct locations.

[kayte]

Thankyou Vulgar1. I had hoped I could get away with not re-unstalling because I only get 8Gig internet per month and I've probably only got 4-5 left for three weeks. The other problem is I'm not sure which version is being used, I think some are using one and some are using the other. Looks like I'll have to wait till my net re-sets and start over :( Thanks for your help.

Edited August 1, 2014 by kayte

[DoubleYou]

Actually, if a file that is supposed to be there is already present, it will not download the file. So, do you have two Steams as well (I don't think so)? If only one Steam, use the Steam one. How to tell? Launch Steam, right-click Skyrim in your Library, go to Local Files, and Browse Local Files. The location it opens is the Skyrim installation Steam is using. Keep that one; remove the other one. Set up your tools to use that one. Make certain you have all the files you want. Only large ones necessary are the BSA files. If you have all the BSAs, you have pretty much everything, and a download via verify game cache won't be large.

[kayte]

Thankyou for your help. I'm totally lost with the Steam stuff, I've never had a game that I needed it before. The first installation I did in C:Games was the one I went with. yes Steam had re-installed itself in a completely new directory (C:Program Files (86). What I did is grab the Steam Folder from Program Files and merged it with other one, did a reg clean and through Properties, redirected the skse loader, steam, all the launchers etc to the new target. All working now but can't get Wrye bash to find the profiles and Saves through Mod Organiser. Anyway THANKS guys for your help.