Nexus Mod Manager: A problem occurred during install.

[andrwfrmn]

So recently, my computer crashed and I lost all of my game data, including old mods and my local saves. This past week, I re-downloaded Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition and started installing new mods. When I first started playing, the game kept telling me I could not load my old saves from the cloud because my content was not authorized. I found a fix online that told me to change all of the requiresauthorization "1" files in the addins.xml to requiresauthorization "0" and I would be able to use my DLCs. I did this and the game allowed me to load old saves, but now new mods give me this error when i try to install them:

 

A problem occurred during install:

Invalid Characters in the given code. Line 13, position 44.

The mod was not installed.

 

I tried resetting the requiresauthorization back to "1" instead of "0", hoping this would resolve the problem, but it still gives me the same error. I've attempted installing many different mods to see if the issue is just with particular types. Nothing has worked so far. Any ideas what I can do to fix this, or at least where to start? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edited December 2, 2013 by andrwfrmn

[andrwfrmn]

*bump*

[Thandal]

Ok, so first, "Bumping is... bad". Please (re-)read the Nexus Terms of Service. (It's considered spamming the site.)

 

Second, you need to have a completely stable install of the base game before you go using any mods. If I were you, I'd do a complete un-/re-install and make sure that everything is working properly, including all your DLC and bonus items. If you have problems with getting the vanilla game working, contact the EA Game Advisors at their Help Center.

 

Third, EA's "Sync with cloud" offering is woefully inadequate for DAO (or DA2.) There's a 100MB limit per game title. DAO saves can get to 1GB per character! Once you've exceeded the limit, you'll never be able to use the cloud saves for that game at all. So always back-up your DAO saves yourself.