Can't Change Vanilla Object Model, Invalid Directory

[goblin072]

So I tried posting this on steam forums and got 0 help so maybe you guys can do better, the problem has not changed so I'm just going to copy and paste what the text was.

 

 

When I click to change the model of an object(keep in mind I am using ONLY vanilla object models, nothing new is added) it goes to the skyrim data directory but there is no .NIF files there. Even pasting the name of the original model into the file bar gives the error. I do not know what happened, I have uninstalled and reinstalled creation kit and this perstists.

 

What SHOULD happen is something like this video:

 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h13b7vGVXtA#t=22m10s

 

it is at 22:10 around when he changes the model.

 

What DOES happen is this:

 

http://imgur.com/vYylozN

 

This is an example of the error I get when doing the exact same actions as the person in the video.

 

What I think might have happened is that I mistyped the model name the first time and the file menu (instead of defaulting to the place where there are all the .NIF files) shot me back to "my documents". I am no longer able to navigate back to that original "folder" that contains the .NIF files, I believe that it is a single file "meshes.bsa".

 

I saw a solution of unpacking meshes.bsa, but that sounds a bit ridiculous just to change the model of one vanilla item to another. I haven't tried it on a different computer but I might have to as this is really impeding my progress.

 

Thanks for any help

 

 

[IsharaMeradin]

The Creation Kit NEEDS the file to be loose in order for you to assign it to a particular record.

 

What you may be able to do as a work around is to make this specific edit in TES5Edit.

[notchella]

I'm having kind of the same problem, only my file pathes don't seem to work. Even with unpacked BSA's in the Steam Skyrim folder it doesn't seem to work :/ very annoying