About uninstalling a mod

[RaulCuevas]

Hello. I've known for a long time the advice that you should never uninstall a scripted mod, since doing so may damage permanently your save, and even though today we have some tools for clean save files from orphaned scripts, it is always adviced agains doing so. And I have always followed that rule.

 

Thing is, I've heard some people claim that unistalling ANY mod can damage your save, not only scripted ones. Some people say this only apllies to, say, more complex mods that, for example, add or edit cells/races or so, while other people say that ANY UNINSTALLED MOD WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS, no matter how small.

 

Recently I tried an hair pack for females, I didn't like it so I unticked the esp and continued playing, but forgot to delete it from my data folder, and at some point, I guess when opening Wyre Bash, the esp ticked itself without me noticing, so I continued playing with a unnecesary hair pack, at the bottom of my load order, that I don't need.

 

I played like 20 more hours and I just realized it. My question is, since the mod is only a hair pack that doesn't messes with anything more in the game, is it safe to uninstall it? I have a pretty stable game after years of learning the correct way of moddind and tweaking, and I don't want to risk unstability for something so small and stupid.

 

Thanks, and sorry for the bother!

[ACAkutare]

If you're not using any hair from the hair mod, and if it's not on any NPC's, you can safely remove it, it won't break anything.

If you or any NPC's ARE using hair from it, you need to make sure you change it so they are not. I've done that myself a few times.

[RaulCuevas]

Nope, the mod isn't master file or related to any other mod, and no NPC's are using any of its added hairs. Neither my character; I had the file activated without notice, as dumb as it may sound.

 

So then, I'll uninstall it and keep playing, hoping stability isn't affected at all.

 

Thank you for the answer!