[GUIDE] Manual Cleaning Skyrim and Skyrim Special Edition Master files

[tltrani]

Is it safe to clean master files mid game?

[thumbincubation]

I've never had any problems with cleaning them mid-game. In fact, I end up having to clean them again, every time Bethesda updates.

[tltrani]

Thanks :laugh:

[Deleted133263User]

I have now simplified this topics first post so it does not need updating every time xEdit has an overhaul, or Bethesda pump out new masters to accommodate even more Creation Club mods compatibility, and make even more dirty edits to the original masters ..

I have dropped listing results and CRCs, and just describe the method. If I were to change results to the development version of xEdit, then people using just the official will be complaining the results are wrong, and if I direct people to use development version instead .. how long before it goes official? and I have to redirect people again?. People still get it wrong sometimes even when they think they have the same version of xEdit (official or beta), and my list of pre-checked results to help .. And then there is the odd pirate with wacky results .. So its probably best left to the capability of the user to follow instructions to the letter, at least if they dont catch everything they will be cleaning out the majority of ITMs and UDRs, and this game is old enough now to have a mature enough community who are mostly well versed in such things. I think this topic and the duplicates elsewhere have done the job.

Will update other guide pages on other sites aswell.

Main reason for the change though is I am not very active with Bethesda modding anymore, and have no interest apart from a veeeery long awaited long term playthrough which I have a set bunch of mods for which is not going to change at all now. I have broken my previous barrier of level 45 in game (previously whenever I got there for one reason or another I would end up restarting a new game), and I am discovering things in game still which I have never seen before because I have not followed all potential quests (the amount of times I have walked past Pinewatch and never realised there was more to that place than meets the eye) .. Its a quest of completing everything I haven't done before :) .. But thats only when I am not playing No Mans Sky, which kind of takes up most of my spare time now. X4 is out in November too, no doubt that will be another huge time sink for me.

[thumbincubation]

Alt3rn1ty, thank you for this guide, in whatever form it may take. It has helped me many times.

[EastVictory]

Thanks A lot for this post alt3rn1ty. Really helped a lot. I was totally lost when I opened xEdit for the first time and didn't try again until after reading this. Now it looks a whole lot less foreign to me

[DX3M666]

Update 1.5.53

 

Should i clean my master files again after this steam update?

since they clearly got altered by the latest update, i guess i cannot copy my old backup files?

[Carranthia]

I cleaned my master files, but I only cleaned Dawnguard ONCE before proceeding on to Hearthfire and Dragonborn. Is it okay to go back and clean Dawnguard a second time after the fact, or am I asking for trouble?

[Pop00100]

I cleaned my master files, but I only cleaned Dawnguard ONCE before proceeding on to Hearthfire and Dragonborn. Is it okay to go back and clean Dawnguard a second time after the fact, or am I asking for trouble?

it doesn't since Hearthfire or Dragonborn don't depend on Dawnguard

[BrutusVP47]

After cleaning the master following the instructions. I had the following occur.

https://youtu.be/ZOih9XynRNE

Anyone have an Idea How I may have caused this :) I re-downloaded the skyrim SE files, and without cleaning the files it doesn't have the problem IE was able to progress normally.

Thanks