"Cannot find the path specified," but only for specific mods?

[DinoR00bus]

Hi, I hope I am in the right place!

 

When I double-click a particular mod in the left pane to bring up the file structure/etc., I get an error that reads: recursive_directory_iterator::operator++: The system cannot find the path specified. Immediately proceeding this in the MO2 log is a warning that reads: failed to remove tutorial control modinfodialogue.

 

This happens ONLY with a particular mod: Zebd- NPC Appearance Customizer and Randomizer, which uses Zedit to distribute NPC textures and meshes. Those textures and meshes are installed in "mods" of their own, which appear in the left pane. The error only appears to happen when these mods are checked/enabled.

 

Everything else with my very heavily-modded Skyrim SE works fine (well, "fine" in some cases). In fact, the ZEBD mod is even working, partially-- I'm missing only head/face textures on select vanilla actors in an otherwise vanilla load order). I just want to make sure that whatever this is IS actually related to that mod, and not MO2, so I can avoid potential problems later.

 

I hope this makes sense. Any insight anyone can provide is much appreciated!

[Greg]

According to the instructions, zEBD - NPC Appearance Customizer and Randomizer should be installed into the zEdit\Modules folder and you should run zEdit from Mod Organizer to create the patch. The optional config files should be installed into zEdit as well, although you should read the instructions to determine which folder in zEdit\Modules these should be copied into.

 

This isn't a "mod" that should be installed with Mod Organizer.

[DinoR00bus]

Thanks for the reply! I'm referring to this portion of the installation instructions: "....downloading the actual texture pack, and extracting it to a specified location."

 

That location is the "mod" I'm referring to. Per the readme that comes with each "asset pack" (set of textures), you have to download the texture mod and extract it into mod organizer 2 mods folder (at one point, I tried to solve the issue by zipping and installing directly through MO2 so it gets the little "meta.ini" file but it didn't work). For example, here's a paste from the mature skin instructions: "Manually download Mature Skin - CBBE from https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/26017
4a: Extract the contents of the Mature Skin - CBBE-26017-2-15-2-1560516171.7z archive into Mod Organizer 2\mods\zEBD - Mature Skin SD CBBE\textures\MSSC."

 

These are the "mods" I'm referring to. I followed all teh instructions (I think), and the mod mostly works, except I'm randomly missing head/face textures on certain vanilla npcs in a mostly vanilla (alternative start for testing, skyui for sanity, and some other things along those lines) load order. Otherwise my game runs fine, MO2 runs fine... but the error is in MO2, and the wording of the error about not "finding the path" makes me think my solution might be here... thoughts?

 

THANK YOU!

[Greg]

I downloaded the options files and this is what I've done using Tempered Skins for Males as a sample.

 

* Copy the zEBD - Tempered Skins for Males - Dressed folder into the Mod Organizer 2\mods folder and activate it in your mod manager

 

I think this is the same as installing Config files for Tempered Skins for Males-36019-1-2-1602021586.7z as a mod. When Mod Organizer prompts for the Data folder, expand Config - Tempered Skins for Males - Dressed, right click zEBD - Tempered Skins for Males - Dressed and select Set Data Folder. Name the mod "zEBD - Tempered Skins for Males - Dressed".

 

This part of the instructions seems relatively clear and the folder structure created is "Mod Organizer 2\mods\zEBD - Tempered Skins for Males - Dressed\textures\TSM". Basically, this just adds the empty textures\TSM folder in preparation for the next step.

 

* Extract the contents of the Tempered Skins for Males - Dressed Version-7902-2-05-1601297180.7z archive into Mod Organizer 2\mods\zEBD - Tempered Skins for Males - Dressed\textures\TSM. You may delete the .nif files.

 

I was initially confused by this because Tempered Skins for Males is an FOMOD, but I see the JSON config file references the FOMOD folder structure so I opened Tempered Skins for Males - Dressed Version-7902-2-0-1580733540.7z in 7zip and copied everything into Mod Organizer 2\mods\zEBD Tempered Skins for Males - Dressed\textures\TSM. I then ran Mod Organizer and I can cleanly see the file structure when I double click the mod and select the Filetree tab.