NMM not installing mods properly

[teethewicked]

I'm on windows 10. I have Skryim installed onto my D drive since my main SDD is so small it can barely hold the necessary computer files. I have NMM also installed to that same D drive. For some reason though, NMM isn't installing mods properly. It's disabling mods that don't have a plugin every time I reopen NMM after close, and it's installing empty folders for things like textures and meshes.

Before anyone suggests it, I'm on an administrator account, have the UAC turned off, I'm running NMM as an administrator, and none of the folders are set to "read only". Why is NMM installing empty folders and leaving out the files that are necessary? Again, I'm running NMM as an administrator so that "fix" is not working.

[Deleted3082751User]

and you definitely set the correct file paths for nexus mod manager ?

 

since it will use C drive by default, which would have course be your ssd drive, and also where your mods and skyrim will not be.

 

it sounds like the paths are not correct, and thus it is installing the mods to a virtual drive which is not on d drive. thus creating ghost files (empty folders)

 

ensure that you set the file paths correctly:

 

Nexus Mod Manager - Double Cog Icon - Skyrim Tab - Ensure all three (3) Paths start with (D:/) and Not (C:/)

 

if the above is not applicable then, another thing that might also be the cause is the fact that esp(s) keep being disabled when NMM is launched , this would indicate that either windows 10 is preventing read and write access to mod loadorder.txt and Plugins.txt files (which are hidden files, and thus windows 10 will be denying access by default, regardless of uac control, as to prevent malicious content from modfiying files in this location) so chances are that windows 10 is denying NMM for reading and writing to and from these files, which would explain why esp are disabled and why it is extracting invalid files. or nmm can not locate the files below.

 

Note: the files that NMM mod Requires are located here by default --> C:\ Users\ Your Computer Name\ AppData\ Local\ Skyrim <-- (these files are hidden and located in a protective area, so this would be a main area that windows 10 will protect) and thus would deny access to any program attempting to read or write to and from.

 

Note: the site wont keep my edited words, so Have Course is meant to be Of Course, above ^^^

Edited October 1, 2017 by Guest