CBEE - A problem occured during install

[zking190]

I have been trying to install CBBE (Or really any character mod) for weeks. Unfortunately, every time I go to install any of these mods in NMM I get the error, "A problem has occurred during install". It does not tell me what problem. All I know is that during some percentage of unpacking it fails and gives me that error. I have been able to successfully download other kinds of mods before, such as SkyUI.

 

Is there a way to find the exact problem that is happening?

I have no other mods loaded. It's a completely clean install of Skyrim and NMM. No other mods are on my system. I have SKSE.

 

I have looked on other forum posts and have seen trying to run it the mod manager as admin. That didn't work. Other than that I have not seen any other answers that are relevant to my problem.

 

I have NMM on an external hard drive with about 800 Gb open storage.

 

Edited April 15, 2018 by zking190

[WastelandAssassin]

try going to the folder where NMM stores downloaded mods (I think there is an option through the folder icon , but you'll have to verify this)

when you are there , try opening the CBBE archive (with Winrar or 7z , or a similar program) . see if you can successfully open the archive , or if you get an error (like unexpected end of archive , or something like that) . sometimes downloads fail , so you get a partial file , and thus a corrupt file

if that is the case , delete the file and try downloading again

if downloads still fail , try downloading the mod manually , and once it's done downloading (and you verify the archive is complete and working) add it to NMM manually

 

if the problem still persists , you should try downloading and installing other mods with NMM , to try and identify what the problem really is

from the picture , you only have CBBE downloaded (unless there is a way to hide categories in NMM) , and for some reason it's in the wrong category (that doesn't really matter , but there might be an issue with your NMM installation , or you haven't set it up properly somehow)

and assuming it's your first time modding these games (I make this assumption as this is your first post on the forums , and a first post being a request for help usually comes from people with no prior modding experience) , I suggest you take a break from modding and go read a tutorial on how to approach this (there are several wonderful guides and tutorials online , some written while others are videos , and you should be able to easily find one that works for you , in a format you find comfortable) . if you don't get the basic understanding of how this works , you will likely encounter many issues with the modded game , so it's best to start from the basics and advance from there , rather than jumping into the dip end only to realize 40 hours in that you broke the game on day one , and lose all that progress (and yeah , these things do happen , and more often than you would guess)

 

please feel free to ask further questions , I'm sure us forum folk would love to try and provide further assistance if possible

[zking190]

try going to the folder where NMM stores downloaded mods (I think there is an option through the folder icon , but you'll have to verify this)

when you are there , try opening the CBBE archive (with Winrar or 7z , or a similar program) . see if you can successfully open the archive , or if you get an error (like unexpected end of archive , or something like that) . sometimes downloads fail , so you get a partial file , and thus a corrupt file

if that is the case , delete the file and try downloading again

if downloads still fail , try downloading the mod manually , and once it's done downloading (and you verify the archive is complete and working) add it to NMM manually

 

if the problem still persists , you should try downloading and installing other mods with NMM , to try and identify what the problem really is

from the picture , you only have CBBE downloaded (unless there is a way to hide categories in NMM) , and for some reason it's in the wrong category (that doesn't really matter , but there might be an issue with your NMM installation , or you haven't set it up properly somehow)

and assuming it's your first time modding these games (I make this assumption as this is your first post on the forums , and a first post being a request for help usually comes from people with no prior modding experience) , I suggest you take a break from modding and go read a tutorial on how to approach this (there are several wonderful guides and tutorials online , some written while others are videos , and you should be able to easily find one that works for you , in a format you find comfortable) . if you don't get the basic understanding of how this works , you will likely encounter many issues with the modded game , so it's best to start from the basics and advance from there , rather than jumping into the dip end only to realize 40 hours in that you broke the game on day one , and lose all that progress (and yeah , these things do happen , and more often than you would guess)

 

please feel free to ask further questions , I'm sure us forum folk would love to try and provide further assistance if possible

 

As I said above. I have used several other mods. I know my NMM is downloaded and installed correctly, because I have run other mods from the exact same place. All I have done is remove all other mods to test whether there was a conflict somewhere. Obviously there isn't a conflict with another mod because there are no other mods downloaded. It being in the wrong category is a bit odd because there is an option during install that says if you want categories. I said no, so the only category is "unassigned". This isn't the first mod I've used and I'm not just completely retarded. About redownloading CBBE, I have downloaded this about 30 times over the course of these past few weeks trying to fix it.

[WastelandAssassin]

I never said you were retarded or anything like that (don't know how you got that impression , but I'm sorry if I somehow offended you)

most people don't remove their mods before testing the problematic mod , so you usually see a full list of mods (which is why I assumed this is your first time with this)

 

this only happened to you with CBBE right? all other mods install properly and work? have you encountered a similar error with any other mod?

how are you downloading this? manually or with NMM? which mods have you successfully installed? (just a few examples would help) . also , have you tested the game after installing said mods , to make sure they work?

if nothing works , you could consider either doing a manual installation of the mod , or using a different mod manager (like Mod Organizer)

I know it's not necessarily the solution you are looking for , but it's an option if you can't solve this (though I hope we'll be able to help you solve the issue)