esl files dont count for the esp limit. so i through that in because im close to the esp limit. sorry i didnt know to do a spoiler tag. ok so it obvious i dont know about dll files or what ever. hence the question. in my post. can you advise me on my next step IF YOU CANT HELP WITH MY QUESTION GO AWAY What do you mean by "so I must have 100 skse files", I was asking how you determined this by mentioning the other two numbers, it sounded like you came to the conclusion that somewhere among the 333 mods, that you must have 100 skse files, and I'm wondering how you did that