Elder Scrolls Forum: How Do I Organise my Mods?

Yes, Ronin dear... you remembered rightly. I was the one with the overwhelming compulsion to rename mods & insanely organize them by catagory. -laughs-

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A couple of things to remember...

Renaming mods shouldn't cause any issues. As a general rule, I don't rename .esms... just esps. I don't think it would cause any problems, but I like to be careful. And frankly, it's just easier to have them all grouped at the top of the DF list.

Renaming doesn't automatically organize them in your Data Files list. They should be resaved in the CS (or by some other timestamp altering program) in the order you want them.

In my Data files folder, I rename them by catagory, just to make them easier to find. Official, armor, clothing, quests, tweaks, misc, visuals, etc... are just some of the cataogries I use.

example:

Better Heads.esm
Bloodmoon.esm
Book Rotate v5.02.esm
Morrowind.esm
Tribunal.esm
Official - Area_Effect_Arrows.esp
Official - EBQ_Artifact_beforeTwinLamps.esp
Official - Entertainers.esp
Armor - Divine_domina_1.esp
Armor - Ice_Glass_Cuirass.esp
Armor - KoT - Akatosh.esp
Armor - Venymora_intro_v1p0.esp
Balance - Dodge_Mod_Enhanced-LD_Tribunal.esp
Balance - Thief_Experience_Overhaul-1.3b_Tribunal_Combined.esp
Clothing - AV_fem_shirts.esp
Clothing - IceBradyRobeReplacerMw.esp
Clothing - Lillias_Robes_v1.0.esp
Dialog - Persuasion_Response_v4.esp
Dialog - VGreetings.esp
Fix - PotionSorter.esp
Misc - Legionnaire's Signet.esp
Misc - The regulars - Sitting NPC's v2.02.esp
Misc - Weapon_Wielding_Mannequins.esp
Quest - Guar_Rescue.esp
Quest - Join_All_Houses.esp
Quest - Juniper's_Twin_Lamps_1.1-Tribunal.esp
Quest - BQC-Ver 2.5_afterTwinLamps.esp
Official - Firemoth_afterBQC.esp
Visuals - Gardeners of Morrowind.esp
Visuals - Key Replacer Trib & BM.esp
Visuals - Tat_NordFemales.esp
Visuals - Vivec_Replacement_v_1.00.esp

Notice how a couple appear out of order? I saved them intentionally in that order, and renamed them, so I wouldn't forget where they should be.

You can still put mods in any renaming order you choose, and avoid load order conflicts, by merely saving those mods near the end in the appropriate order. Or... make a new 'z' catagory.

example:

z - EBQ_Artifact_beforeTwinLamps.esp
z - Juniper's_Twin_Lamps_1.1-Tribunal.esp
z - BQC-Ver 2.5_afterTwinLamps.esp
z - Firemoth_afterBQC.esp

Be very careful about checking for mod dependencies. If you change a mod's name, you MUST resave any dependent mod with the new mod's name, or you'll have issues with the dependent mod.

I hope that helps... And I hope even more that I didn't totally confuse anyone. -grins- It's an insane extra bit of unnecessary busywork... but it makes me happy.. and I can FIND things!

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