Questions about the Skyrim Mod Organizer Program (MO)

[Sardonnicus]

So after several months of CTD free playing using MO, TES5Edit, Boss to manage my mods, I developed CTD's last night that have stalled my playing.

 

I was able to load up a previous save in Solstheim and play, but as soon as I tried to travel to Skyrim, Boom! CTD. If I tried to load up a game where my character was in Skyrim, it would load but as soon as the loading screen would dissappear, the CTD would occur.

 

I am not sure what changed to cause these CTD's. I am going back over everything and disabling mods to try and find the culprit. In doing so I noticed something about the MO program I have never noticed before... at the bottom there is the word "overwrite" in red at the bottom. There are some .ESP's and .BSA's that show that they are pointing to mods that are in the "overwrite" section. There are also .ESP's and .BSA's that active for mods I have deleted - the MO says their source is "DATA" or "Overwrite."

 

I suspect that my very recent CTD's are coming from this. What is the "overwrite" section? And how do I remove mods that are listed under it? Also, if I have .ESP's and .BSA's files from mods I have removed that are saying they are part of "DATA" or "Overwrite" how do I get rid of these?

 

For example...

 

I have realistic lighting overhaul installed and activated. Over in the .ESP window, it shows one complete set of RLO .ESP's that are from the RLO mod, and then there is a second set of RLO .ESP's and the MO is saying they are coming from "DATA." I am not sure where this duplicate set of .ESP's is coming from.

 

 

[T113]

Overwrite is a folder in your MO directory where some files go which overwrite other versions with the same name.

Since you mention TES5Edit, overwrite is where it will place cleaned .ESPs when it is run from inside MO.