Newbie to XEdit question: what am I doing wrong while trying to apply scripts?

[lindanimated]

Hello everyone,

So yeah, I've got a possibly dumb question/situation that I'd really appreciate some help with. I've used Creation Kit, but I never used any version of XEdit until now when I'm trying to make a mod for Fallout 4 that involves changing practically all of the dialogue (so yeah, tens of thousands of lines). The creator who inspired me to make this was kind enough to provide an XEdit script that he wrote which he used to translate all the lines in Skyrim. So this script should do what I need, but I'm just apparently hopeless at XEdit and can't figure out how to make it happen.

This is the script (scroll down, it's under "Dialogue Translate Script"): https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/105992?tab=files

When I try to apply the script (right click in left side pane > apply script > choose CSV, choose plugin file, etc, hit OK) it goes through super quickly and reports that the script is done running after a few seconds. Nothing ever changes though. And I actually have tried running other scripts as well, completely unrelated to this dialogue translator one, and I can't get anything to happen with them either.

I don't know if this makes any difference, but I started building the mod in Creation Kit because I'm more familiar with that, and only then tried to work on it in XEdit. I went through things like NPC names and manually edited them in CK, but I'm not gonna go through tens of thousands of lines of dialogue manually if I can help it so I'd love to figure out what's going on here with XEdit.

It's probably something exceedingly simple that I just wasn't aware I had to do, and it might end up being pretty silly and embarrassing on my part. But hey, we all start somewhere. So basically, don't take for granted that I know even the most basic stuff.

I'm happy to post any other info that's needed! Thanks so much to anyone who helps.

Edited April 9 by lindanimated

[7531Leonidas]

You might want to post this in the FO4 game community, so more player eyes will see it.  Click on 'Game Communities' under 'Browse' at the top of the page, then scroll down/search for Fallout 4.  You will have to join that community to post there.

[lindanimated]

  On 4/9/2025 at 7:57 PM, 7531Leonidas said:

You might want to post this in the FO4 game community, so more player eyes will see it.  Click on 'Game Communities' under 'Browse' at the top of the page, then scroll down/search for Fallout 4.  You will have to join that community to post there.

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Thank you for the suggestion!