TES4Edit Bad Oblivion Path

[Ddeatth]

Hey guys.

 

I'm learning how to use TES4Edit, but I have a problem.

 

Since installing Oblivion, I have moved it. TES4Edit is searching for my ESPs and ESMs in the old location, and there is no place within the program where I can change this.

 

Once again, I must beg for help. :psyduck:

 

Please and thanks! :thumbsup:

[MShoap13]

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling TES4Edit?

[Ddeatth]

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling TES4Edit?

TES4Edit was installed after I moved Oblivion - so I'm thinking that the problem must be with a setting in one of Oblivion's files.

[MShoap13]

This happens a lot because of (yet again) old registry keys referring to your old install of Oblivion. Did you reboot after uninstalling Oblivion with Revo Uninstaller? And are you sure you chose to delete the Registry entries in Revo? You have to manually click the "delete" button on the Revo UI when it gets to that step.

[Ddeatth]

This happens a lot because of (yet again) old registry keys referring to your old install of Oblivion. Did you reboot after uninstalling Oblivion with Revo Uninstaller? And are you sure you chose to delete the Registry entries in Revo? You have to manually click the "delete" button on the Revo UI when it gets to that step.

I did - but I don't think it's relevant to this problem. After uninstalling Oblivion, I installed it again to C:\Games\. Then I moved it to C:\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion\. Then I installed TES4Edit, and for some reason, it looked in C:\Games\ instead of the correct folder.

[MShoap13]

Yep, it's registry keys, to properly move Oblivion it must be uninstalled and reinstalled or else you end up with a bunch of registry entries pointing to the wrong place. You can either copy and paste it back to C:\Games and leave it there, copy and paste it back to C:\Games and then uninstall it and reinstall it to the new location, or manually change every single data entry in your registry that's pointing to the wrong location. I'd personally either just move it back to \Games or uninstall and reinstall, manually altering hundreds of registry keys is finger-numbingly tedious.

 

To manually do it you would:

1. Go to "Run"

2. Type in "regedit" and click "run"

3. Click "Edit">"Find"

4. Type in "C:\Games\Bethesda Softworks\Oblivion"

5. Replace the file path to reflect any changes you've made

6. Hit F3 to "Find Next"

7. Repeat from step 5

[bben46]

Here is a link to my complete uninstall/reinstall procedure located in the WIKI section of the Nexus. It has been used by hundreds (maybe thousands by now) of people with a very high level of success to fix reinstall problems.

http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Oblivion_reinstall_procedure

 

It allows you to preserve any saves and mods, or remove them completely - your choice.

[Hoozer32]

If I understand your thread something similar happened to me. I deleted my entire Steam account and reinstalled it. TES4 Edit kept looking for things in the old folder. I fixed this by copying the TES 4 Edit Application and pasting it in the new game folder in the same section with the Oblivion.exe (usually C:games/oblivion or for me C:/ Steam/ steamapps/common/oblivion). It recognized my mods and from there I just created a shortcut from that TES4 Edit application location. This may be the easier thing to do. Edited January 11, 2012 by Hoozer32