ABurningSky

Sorry about that - I'd actually already done that, it was one of the first things I'd done when I built my PC. Hidden files have been set to be visible for years, and that's not it, to my knowledge. The screenshot shows that hidden items are set to visible in explorer, actually.

Hello all, I was fiddling with bodyslide for a while, wondering why the program didn't seem to be exporting the files it said it was. I would follow the exact directions - and yet, no CROSS Courser Strigidae nif files found, whatsoever, anywhere in the data folder. I tried this multiple times, reinstalling bodyslide in multiple ways, and nothing worked, even though it was giving me confirmation. Then I began fiddling about a little more, accessing the FO4 directory from within Bodyslide - and suddenly out pops dozens of folders and files hidden within the folder, I navigate to the meshes directory - and what do you know! There it is, clear as day within it. I copied and pasted this from these hidden directories, among with many other folders of long forgotten mods I thought had been uninstalled by NMM when I switched to mod organizer. They are completely invisible when browsing, but are absolutely there, taking up about 65 gb. I've tried copying the directory directly into windows explorer, and it gives me naught but a "location not available" error - I went and followed guides for resolving this, but I already have full permissions for my user account, and I'm at my wit's end. What on earth is happening here? I've tried uninstalling Fallout 4, deleting the entire folder - and it gives me a mere 700 or so mb from other mods that I could already see. Upon reinstalling (an arduous process with my slow internet connection) I return - and the files are all still there. I've contemplated poking around in regedit, but I am no IT wizard and am afraid such action might worsen the situation. I have included screenshots of the situation, and will provide any more information requested if I am capable of doing so. I'm completely at my wit's end, and I beg of you good people, please help. What on earth is going on here?

Yes, that basically means your computer is currently using those files at the moment. I'd wager if you restarted and tried to delete them you'd see a considerable amount freed up for deletion.

My god, that actually worked! You're a life saver! And I freed up 36GB while I was at it! You have some serious gratitude from me, oodles of it.

As I recently bought New Vegas, and promptly installed lots and lots of mods on it I can say definitively that, if you can run the game unmodded, then provided you don't install and ENBs or texture packs, it should run basically the same as it was unmodded (And I had, what, about eighty nine mods running at one point?). Only you would now have oodles more content~ That being said, your hard drive space isn't really relevant to how fast the game will run, only if you have the space to install it (And the mods you'll surely aquire later). What you would need to know is your processor, RAM, and graphics card, which should all be pretty easy to figure out ^-^ Though if you have a 700GB hard drive, chances are your computer has the muscle to run New Vegas perfectly fine.

I just purchased Fallout 3 GOTY and Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition during the summer sale. I installed them, downloaded several (Probably more than I should've) mods, and installed them using FOMM and everything went perfectly fine, and I happily gallivanted across the Mojave wasteland for a while. Then I found a different manager called Mod Organizer, installed that, and was delighted at some of the features it had, but I still went back to FOMM because it can install UI mods and such. Only problem is, whenever I try to activate a mod after adding it, I get an error message telling me that "A problem occurred during install: The file exists The mod was not installed" I've tried uninstalling New Vegas and reinstalling, clearing the documents folder for New Vegas, removing FOMM and reinstalling, clearing out every directory I could find that referenced a mod manager for Fallout, running FOMM as admin, setting the install info and mods folder to all sorts of places such as the game folder itself, C:\Games, desktop, etc... and it always gives me the same error, no matter what I try to install. I thought I might have somehow messed up my mod files, and downloaded a mod I'd never used before, on completely unmodded (Save for NVSE, which FOMM recognizes perfectly easily) New Vegas and no luck, The file exists, the mod was not installed. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I'm at my wit's end. EDIT: I've traced the problem to FOMODs. Using NMM and the aforementioned Mod Organizer, they could install all my non-fomod mods perfectly fine, but when I tried to load them with a fomod (Project Nevada), the file exists, the mod was not installed. I know FOMM makes a fomod out of every mod one loads into it and uses those, so that would explain that, but what I don't get is why fomods won't install. I can just change the file to a zip or rar, but the fomod folder inside the file remains, and gives me the now dreaded error message. When I remove the fomod folder the mod installs perfectly, but I can't tell if this has broken anything crucial that the fomod folder contained. Somebody with some technical experience or just an idea of how the data structure and such works, please help! I don't know how the scripting of fomods works or anything like that! EDIT 2: And, I've traced it to the script.cs in fomods, as I just successfully installed one that lacked it by default with no issues whatsoever. But now I'm utterly perplexed by this script.cs file. Is it essential to the install process for something like, say, Project Nevada? Or is it just a convenience and mod managers can live without it? Or is there any advice someone could give me on the matter? This is only a recent problem.