Vortex says I have a dependency that is not in my mods or game files

[Grizfarb]

I downloaded coldsun1187 mods "coldsun's world-NPC Replacer" pack 1 through 7 and all listed requirements.

Every NPC replaced fine except Serana & Valerica.

The only thing I could find was a dependency in Vortex stating that it loaded after "Bijin AIO Legendary plus Serana and Valerica"

I just did a clean reinstall,

I went into vortex, purged all mods, then I deleted my game, Steam, Steamapps, common, Skyrim SE.

Then documents, my games, saves, skyrim se.

Then appdata , local and deleted skyrim se.

I then went to Steam library and uninstalled skyrim se.

I reinstalled from a clean backup of the unmodded game files.

I am running v 1.5.97 downgraded from AE.

I then reinstalled my mods with vortex.

I do not have the file in question, nor do I know how it got there, I did use seranaholic last year, but got the black face bug and uninstalled it.

The mod is not in Vortex, not in game data files, and I have looked everywhere for the file so I could delete it.

Can anyone please help me figure out why this is holding up the replacer mod for serana and valerica.

The only dependency when I installed the packs were "must load after The Ordinary Women, which I thought was holding things up so I uninstalled it to no avail, still no makeover for serana and valerica.

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[Guest deleted34304850]

you did all those uninstalls, but did you format your hard disk and reinstall windows?

 

seriously - what on earth did you do all that for? that's absolute nonsense. why not just ask the collection creator what to do as this reads like there's something slightly beyond your ken in the collection and how its deployed.

[Pickysaurus]

 

The only thing I could find was a dependency in Vortex stating that it loaded after "Bijin AIO Legendary plus Serana and Valerica"

 

Anything loading "after" something else overwrites it.

[Grizfarb]

1ae0bfb8; Gamer Poet on you tube said to do the clean reinstall just like I explained. Maybe something is beyond your Ken if you just want to run someone down, do not post.

You Tube: skyrim special edition clean installation tutorial tirdas by Gamer Poet

 

 

Pickysaurus; I realize anything that loads after overwrites the previous file, I do not have that file downloaded and after uninstalling everything it should not be there. I cannot find the source of that file, and when I installed the mod that changes serana and valerica Vortex did not pop up that rule at me only the ordinary women.

And sorry about the necro post won't happen again.

 

Something is blocking serana and valerica from being overwritten by the mod that changes their apperance, trying to find what that is.

[Zanderat]

Gamer Poet is not infallible. And a collection is just a bunch of mods. Once you have down loaded it, you are free to change load or whatever. @1ae0bfb8 is right. None of that was necessary.

[Guest deleted34304850]

1ae0bfb8; Gamer Poet on you tube said to do the clean reinstall just like I explained. Maybe something is beyond your Ken if you just want to run someone down, do not post.

You Tube: skyrim special edition clean installation tutorial tirdas by Gamer Poet

 

 

Pickysaurus; I realize anything that loads after overwrites the previous file, I do not have that file downloaded and after uninstalling everything it should not be there. I cannot find the source of that file, and when I installed the mod that changes serana and valerica Vortex did not pop up that rule at me only the ordinary women.

And sorry about the necro post won't happen again.

 

Something is blocking serana and valerica from being overwritten by the mod that changes their apperance, trying to find what that is.

if he said put your pc in an incinerator, would you? i mean, he's a random voice on the internet so must be right, right?

the point i'm making is that all those uninstall steps are a waste of time. so if all they do is waste time, why do them? what did doing all that achieve? as far as i can tell your issue remains, right?

[Grizfarb]

OK..... apologies, at 63 and having never touched a PC till the pandemic started, living in a rural area, not having a teacher, I have tried to learn from reading forums, and watching vid's.

Teach me, or point me in the right direction to learn.

This was better than how I started, deleting all and redownloading all. I have 30 daytime gb's available, and 50 gb's at nite per month,so I started downloading mods to my download folder and installing manually.

I have done fairly well considering the lack of understanding the nuances of the computer, but it is way better than xbox!

As I said earlier I really have gone thru all mods, all plugins, all data in skyrim se and cant find what is interfering with Serana & Valerica not being overwritten.

 

As an example SSE Edit... I have been to the altar (or whatever they call it) and I have watched a bunch of vid's on it, with very little gained in knowledge as it seems like it is all geared to those who have way more knowledge on the subject than what I have, and the explanation is so fast, and so far over my head I might as well be 6 feet under. So I have yet to understand how to properly use the program. I have it installed, maybe not properly as I followed poets vid.

 

And if I was rude please forgive it just seemed like you did not offer a complete newb anything other than sharp words.

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[showler]

To try and stay on topic, it should be pointed out that the OP installed seven different NPC overhaul mods, not a Collection.

 

That Serena and Valeria are in the second of the seven packs.

 

That the override rule they are asking about would not have any effect on the appearance of these two characters since it states that the second pack would win that conflict. It is probably a case of Vortex maintaining outdated override information for mods that have been deleted and maybe should be reported in-app as a bug so it can be checked out.

 

And that support for the mods you are using is done via a Discord channel and that is probably the right place to ask about this to see if anyone else has a similar issue.

 

Also, you can have Vortex list all your override rules and delete this one if it is listed.

[Grizfarb]

Showler; thanks for your comment, could you please explain how to find those rules and delete them, or point me to where I can learn how to find it myself.

My point is I have never wanted a type of "do it for me" I am from the "show me state" I prefer to learn to do for myself, even if I do it wrong sometimes.

Thanks.......G

[Pickysaurus]

To try and stay on topic, it should be pointed out that the OP installed seven different NPC overhaul mods, not a Collection.

 

That Serena and Valeria are in the second of the seven packs.

 

That the override rule they are asking about would not have any effect on the appearance of these two characters since it states that the second pack would win that conflict. It is probably a case of Vortex maintaining outdated override information for mods that have been deleted and maybe should be reported in-app as a bug so it can be checked out.

 

And that support for the mods you are using is done via a Discord channel and that is probably the right place to ask about this to see if anyone else has a similar issue.

 

Also, you can have Vortex list all your override rules and delete this one if it is listed.

 

Rules that reference mods that are no longer present don't do anything. It's not very likely to be that as a problem. It might just be that you haven't deployed your mods properly?