wrye mesh stuck on setup

[crazyladybutterfly]

2021-05-02 22:13:36.960000: # ===================== Wrye Mash started. ===================== #

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "mash.py", line 42, in <module>

File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module

File "mash\mash.pyo", line 85, in <module>

File "wx\_core.pyo", line 8631, in __init__

File "wx\_core.pyo", line 8196, in _BootstrapApp

File "mash\masher.pyo", line 5177, in OnInit

File "mash\masher.pyo", line 5324, in InitData

File "mash\masher.pyo", line 5334, in InitData_regular

File "mash\mosh.pyo", line 3440, in refresh

File "mash\mosh.pyo", line 3132, in refresh

File "mash\mosh.pyo", line 3202, in refresh_Morrowind

File "mash\mosh.pyo", line 2909, in getHeader

File "mash\mosh.pyo", line 1956, in __init__

File "mash\mosh.pyo", line 716, in __init__

File "mash\mosh.pyo", line 727, in load

File "mash\mosh.pyo", line 1961, in loadData

File "mash\mosh.pyo", line 606, in unpackSubHeader

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xbf in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

2021-05-02 22:31:14.554000: # ===================== Wrye Mash started. ===================== #

OnInit returned false, exiting...

it starts, it recognizes the morrowind.ini e data files but it does not save the setup settings so whenever i click on the program it starts again with the setup

[AYLeiDRuiN]

Sounds like your install is in \program files (x86). In other words Windows or another app is preventing your files from being saved.