
#HOW TO INSTALL SKYRIM MODS WITH FOLDERS MANUAL#Īt least in the beginning, stick with manual installation or pre-made OMOD/BAIN packages until you get to know the process. This is one of the most important steps of using mods. There are THREE things you should back up with regularity. You do not have to back this up every time you install a new mod, but it might be worthwhile to back it up once you have your favorite basics in place. If you have set up multiple installs for your game, this is probably not necessary, as you have surely created a backup.

My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves (or. Every time I get a bunch, I sort them into backup folders named by character, which periodically get compressed into. Saves can easily get to 6-10mb each, but a block of 100 saves can be 7zipped down to 20mb. The third is your mods! Let's say you install one mod, then another that overwrote something from the first, and you don't like it. #HOW TO INSTALL SKYRIM MODS WITH FOLDERS INSTALL# If you still have a copy of the first mod, it is easy to simply re-install that one again overtop of the second one and get those changes back how you had them. So when you're done installing a mod, re-zip it and toss it in a backup folder. Make sure you name these backups after the mods themselves, as many downloads won't have recognizable names (grr). OBMM users may skip all this, as OMODs are stored intact in a separate folder anyway.Īll this takes up extra drive space. If you don't have room, put priority on backing up your saves regularly and go from there.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Oblivion checks every single file in its folders on load and as the game is running. For this reason, your backups should go in a new folder outside of Oblivion's program folder, and also outside of its. I do not know yet if Skyrim still does this or not, but there can only be good to come of keeping it clean anyway. #HOW TO INSTALL SKYRIM MODS WITH FOLDERS ARCHIVE#.

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