anjenthedog

Heh I give her the Whiterun house and never visit again. Cripes, I was married to that woman several lifetimes ago. Nothing but cabbage apple soup and "practice". sheesh. Never again.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Skyrim followers. They'll block you, drive you off the nearest cliff, talk over an NPC you're having a conversation with, get themselves between you and your opponent at almost every possible turn, along with occasionally deciding to ignore you completely in favor of trying to kill a fish, or because they're otherwise "busy" Almost as if the follower system was intentionally programmed to do so... Fortunately if you look around at nexus's SE file archive, you might find some mods to help with some of it. And if you dig into AFT, you might find some settings that will reduce some of the annoying behavior too.

Thanks. Yeah... I think there are a couple/few. Although (no insult intended), it still doesn't actually answer the question. Just an arbitrary limit?

As the title says. Specifically, player crafting skill level, just to avoid any confusion.

You could alter their ratings. When I've done so before, I've used Proteus to change clothing into virtual armor and give them armor ratings

Before the game broke irretrievably due to a major Steam feckup a month or so ago, pretty much Like a God's realm tourist. I got tired of the game dictating my play probably six months in in late 2019, after completing the main and many other questlines. So lots of wandering throughout the various realms (Also installed many of the landmass addons) and quests when I want.

Well Nexus? It's been ten days now. You dropped this into this forum against my wishes. what's the answer? To be clear, I am asking if I can delete the ~145 G of expanded mod files contained in /AppData/Roaming/Vortex/skyrimse/mods/ manually via file manager, or do they "have to be" removed within the vortex application to avoid some sort of resultant application corruption?

What does this (and your previous post) have to do with my topic? Why are you posting irrelevant content to my thread? Ok... Vortex is currently storing 140G of expanded mod archive files from my previous Skyrim SE installation, in its /AppData/Roaming/Vortex/skyrimse/mods/ folder, which is the only additional space available to me to expand sufficient space for a reinstallation. To be clear, I am asking if I can delete the ~145 G of expanded mod files contained in /AppData/Roaming/Vortex/skyrimse/mods/ manually via file manager, or do they "have to be" removed within the vortex application to avoid some sort of resultant application corruption?

Ok... Vortex is currently storing 140G of expanded mod archive files from my previous Skyrim SE installation, in its /AppData/Roaming/Vortex/skyrimse/mods/ folder, which is the only additional space available to me to expand sufficient space for a reinstallation. To be clear, I am asking if I can delete the ~145 G of expanded mod files contained in /AppData/Roaming/Vortex/skyrimse/mods/ manually via file manager, or do they "have to be" removed within the vortex application to avoid some sort of resultant application corruption?

Someone please move this to the relevant forum. I accidentally posted it here in Mod Ideas, where it will probably get zero feedback

- Bear with me please, it'll take a while to set up the questions with background - At present, the /AppData/Roaming/Vortex/skyrimse/mods/ folder contains 144GB of installed mod files Due to a nonrecoverable Steam crash, I need to start fresh, ie reinstall skyrim from the ground up. The steam apps folder had already been archived to another drive to accommodate fixing steam, ostensibly to drop back into place after steam was fixed. Except... Once Steam was uninstalled and reinstalled, I no longer had quite enough room for the steamapps folder. (still puzzling about that but that's not specifically what I want to talk/ask about), so dropping it back where it belonged wasn't really in the mix. Anyway, after clearing enough other files to allow moving it back in, I found the game still wouldn't start and only resulted in a Steam Error message. AND... the drive was now dangerously full with /steamapps/ in place. So after an(other) obtuse exchange with Steam support, I undid the folder move and speculated and idled and fumed and wept for my old skyrim and so forth for a week or a bit, and now we're here. I'm ready to give up and reinstall from scratch, but that leads me back to the question of "where to find lots of files to purge, to make room for another skyrim installation of similar "girth" to the one I've been running?" I only have around 140 or so G free on the drive (with the /steamapps/ folder removed to another drive). But I do have that 144G of content in the title folder though. If I could recover that, then I'd have nearly 300G free and could just go ahead with the new skyrim installation, and wash my hands of the matter But...there's the rub. Can I just delete them? Will doing so outside vortex causes issues with vortex later? I have all the source files stored, so it's not like I "need" them at this point, but I'm not sure if wiping the individual mod folders via direct deletion is a taboo vortex act and will make my problems even worse by breaking something in vortex. Sigh...feeling quite defeated

Nope. I'm using 1.5.97 "classic", if that's a term. Steam(prog) should not have been aware of any skyrim (or other) info, since as part of the whole "fix steam" procedure that Steam(inc) provided me with, after moving the existing /steamapps/ offboard to another physical drive, I uninstalled it, rebooted, then reinstalled it, so it had no games to alter or incidentally update. Hmm... Unless it now installs the latest SKSE as part of the Steam install... more questions for Steam sigh.... yeah, I am a bit worried they "udpated" something behind the scenes.

Can't dump the whole drive. It contains my OS and ancillary applications (and associated "data"). Drive looks "physically" ok. No reported disk errors, no fragmentation. I also did a roughshod manual count of the contents of the drive without the steamapps folder, and the numbers shown for total disk space used, seem consistent with what's there, but adding the size of the steamapps folder to the reported disk space used exceeds the drive capacity. (why I had to move additional files, about 30G or so, off the target to make room for them to see if I could fire up the game). Really makes me wonder if the /steamapps/ folder wasn't one of those optional folder "compress files to save disk space" things, although I have no idea why it would be. And if so, (wild speculation) I sure don't recall doing it anyway. In any case, before this all started, the drive had plenty of room still, (I wasn't worried about bottlenecking disk space, had plenty for any disk housekeeping) and /steamapps/ existed along with all the other stuff that filled the rest of the disk. Nothing changed in terms of disk space used (fundamentally) except the steam reinstall... and how very little drive space was left once I got the old /steamapps/ folder back onto the drive. I have to digest this slowly. It really is nonsensical. Thanks for the reply.

Windows 10. And t'boot, I just archived whatever other files I could off the "root" drive (500G SSD) and got barely enough space to move steamapps and its content back into place, started up Steam, fired up SKSE Loader and...wamp wamp... no go. Steam is running now, but instead of the game booting up, I got a new bit of fun Steam Error Application load error: 6:0000065432 Like...wtf? SO I searched on that error. saw one (and only one!!!) post that had the same error code and suggested admin status was necessary. Tried booting steam as admin. nope. Tried SKSE Loader as admin. nope. Tried both as admin. nope. PS> Sorry for the tone...I'm a bit frustrated. Seems like I've had to fight this game and its overlord Steam, since day one. Even vanilla was unplayable without massaging. The millennial paradigm is warped and broken and corrupt. (ie, QC is postscript and documentation is hastily scribbled "notes to self".)

So...my Steam apps folder had to be moved to repair Steam (broke during an overnight Windows update). After much backnforth with steam to ensure I didn't f something up, the solution was to a) move steam apps folder off the harddrive to another drive temporarily. b) uninstall steam, then reboot c) reinstall steam and verify it operates d) move previously moved steamapps folder back to the proper location in the (new) steam folder So here's the problem. My system is telling me I don't have enough space on the target drive to perform the move edit: of the temporarily archived /steamapps/... folder back to its original location. This doesn't make sense to me, since there were 80-100 G free on the drive prior to any fiddling, and moving the (149G) folder out should have provided the drive with an additional (149G) of space to work with, so something like 230-250 G all told. The target is a 500G card from a trad 5G harddrive I use for archiving. Any clues would be helpful.