mellypepper

Yes. You need to look at all your references that are highlighted and go through to see which ones should not be there, such as in a vanilla cell that you'd visited. The referenced cell should be identified so you can easily see the vanilla cells changed and if you did not intend to make the change, then delete it. So far it's looking all good! Thanks for the tips. Now to conquer the navmesh. Welp!

I've definitely noticed objects moving randomly when I right-click them. That's a great idea to check first and not save. I set it so I can have multiple Creation Kits open, so now I have an empty .esp for looking things up that will never be saved on one screen and another that has my active mod.

Thanks everyone. I run Tes5Edit after every save. I "Remove Identical Master File Records" and then "Undelete and Disable References". Is there something more I should do on-top of that to clean the .esp? On my last pass through it removed 27 records.

I'm working on my first real mod for myself. It started off small, but it kind of took off and I've now built an entire trading village on the outskirts of Whiterun aka Whiterun Trading Village (LOL!). I'm nearly done with the exterior and a bit of the interiors and I just stumbled on a random Creation Kit Tip (while researching an entirely different issue) that states to NEVER right-click an object as that will cause the object to be edited and create a dirty edit. Is this true? In all the tutorials I've watched and forums I've read this was never mentioned as a bad thing. I've seen modders do this very thing to copy an object (like a fence) or to find out what the objects ID is and create a static. If you literally move an object it shows as edited so now I'm confused and concerned. Am I screwed? Do I need to start over? Note* I did not delete anything, I disabled and moved unwanted objects underground. And I have not duplicated anything, just copied. And of course I've looked up IDs to create my own statics. Some screenshots if you're interested: