ForrestEbonwolf

I'm just willing to do anything to make this work... I mean, I'm doing everything correctly, and I know everything is right, I just feel like I'm over looking something blatant and obvious, but I'm going to try the active file thing right now. Any other tips from anyone would be nice.

Would making my mod an active file make my mods show in game?

I'm using the newest of each one...

EDIT: Because I realize that I was just rambling, so I'm going to try again. I recently downloaded the Elder Scrolls construction kit and have been having problems with it, one of which is the following: Whenever I edit a pre-existing mod it will not allow me to save over the original file, even if its not a master file. When I attempt to save over it, a message pops up telling me I can't save there. And when I create a new mod and go back to edit it it also will not allow me to save over it, this is forcing me to have multiple esp. files just to add an additional little thing or to change a face, its taking up a lot of space and causing many problems. Here's my second problem and the biggest: My mods aren't working. No matter what I do, I try to add a couple of NPCs I make a new mod and install it but my NPCs just do not exist. I made sure that they are in a working place on the maps and everything but they are not showing up, I've looked at all of the CM Partners readmes, FAQs etc... But nothing helps me with my problem. I'm following all of the steps but my mods are not showing up, whether I edit a mod, or create my own... If I edit a mod the mod seems to completly dissapear from gameplay even though it is still installed, and if I create and install my own it seems to just not exist. Can someone please help me, because I just started modding, and I'm really good at it, but nothing I do is showing up and Its really getting annoying.

Okay, I am a companion lover... in all honesty Tamriel is a big place and I don't like being alone... I have a huge castle in the mountains, an absolutely awe inspiring mod made by Retta... If you haven't downloaded it, do, it is amazing especially if you have a lot of companions like myself... But anyway... to get to the point... I have a few certain companions I would like to make essential but the Oblivion Wiki and a couple other places don't explain exactly what I have to do, so I'm not really understanding. I know I go to the Command Console but I enter the NPC ID and the number one but it isn't working, I'm pretty sure that I'm missing a step can someone help me please?