Smig Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I installed many mods, most through NMM which makes removal easy, but one or two weren't compatible with NMM so I installed them manually. Now I want to remove one I installed manually, a texture pack, without removing the others. I can only see two ways: - Go through each file in the downloaded zip file and delete that file from the Data folder (there are thousands of files); - Deactivate all mods from NMM, delete all files from Data, reapply all mods, copy again the few other mods I installed manually. The first is out of question but even the second is so much work... is there some other way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeoshua Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 If you installed it manually? No other way than the first method you described. This is why I don't like NMM. If the author hasn't made it compatible with NMM there is no way to shoehorn it in. Which is bullcrap. FOMM never had that limitation, and I've installed everything with it. Hell, I even took all the data files from the DLCs and made them into FOMM packages, just so I could see what exactly they changed through the file browser in FOMM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHazardous Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 (edited) ...or you could use windows' search function. Little bit faster than manually go through folders Do you mean the mod has thousands of files or you have thousands of files in data folder? Edited February 12, 2012 by SHazardous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smig Posted February 12, 2012 Author Share Posted February 12, 2012 ...or you could use windows' search function. Little bit faster than manually go through folders Do you mean the mod has thousands of files or you have thousands of files in data folder?The mod has thousands of files... going through them is out of question. I might as well get used to the textures :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHazardous Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 (edited) does filenames have any similarity? Like prefix or such that would be on all or most files? Or folders? Which mod is it? I could try to check it and see if I can figure out a way to remove files easiest possible way.... EDIT:nevermind the above :)I just realised you could use program that can search for duplicate files... I know there is many. Just don't know what freeware progrmas there is. Well comodo system cleaner is free but I've tried it's duplicate remover and wasn't too thrilled of it. EDIT:Did a little googling and found program called Auslogics Duplicate File Finder. (freeware) Did a quick test and it seemed ok. Although its automatic selection for which duplicates to select wasnt the best. But you can always make a copy of original files and compare them to NVS data folder and then just delete files from both. That is if the program doesn't let you check only the ones in data folder.... all at the same time. I managed only to select files in one folder at a time. Didn't manage to select data folder and all the childrenfolder at the same time to deletion. Edited February 12, 2012 by SHazardous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smig Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 does filenames have any similarity? Like prefix or such that would be on all or most files? Or folders? Which mod is it? I could try to check it and see if I can figure out a way to remove files easiest possible way.... EDIT:nevermind the above :)I just realised you could use program that can search for duplicate files... I know there is many. Just don't know what freeware progrmas there is. Well comodo system cleaner is free but I've tried it's duplicate remover and wasn't too thrilled of it. EDIT:Did a little googling and found program called Auslogics Duplicate File Finder. (freeware) Did a quick test and it seemed ok. Although its automatic selection for which duplicates to select wasnt the best. But you can always make a copy of original files and compare them to NVS data folder and then just delete files from both. That is if the program doesn't let you check only the ones in data folder.... all at the same time. I managed only to select files in one folder at a time. Didn't manage to select data folder and all the childrenfolder at the same time to deletion.WOW... such a simple solution. Why didn't I think of that? I guess I'm not as smart as I though ;) Kudos to you fine sir, for the time spent helping some random dude on the interwebz! I used that same software and I was able to delete all the right files. Crisis averted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribbleshnibit8 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 For the record, what texture mod was it? If it's one of the major ones I've probably got an install fomod for it that I could upload for anyone to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickerhk Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I don't install loose files manually anymore because you end up with a mess after awhile. I usually download mods to my downloads folder, then repack the mod into a plain old zip file if the folder structure is wrong, then install it in NMM. I did the same with FOMM when I was using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHazardous Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Kudos to you fine sir, for the time spent helping some random dude on the interwebz! I used that same software and I was able to delete all the right files. Crisis averted! Thanks and clad to be of help :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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