LadieWinter Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 I am coming back to Skyrim after having not played for a few months now. I did a fresh reinstall after making sure all game files were properly cleaned up. I am looking inside the Data folder and noticed that all of the BSAs have a modified date of 12/31/1999 at 7:00 p.m. All other files seem to have a proper date. I don't recall that ever happening before. Is this a problem? What does it even mean that those are dated so weirdly? How can I fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkRudra Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Did you ever use Mod Organizer and hit the Back-date BSAs button in the program's settings? If so, that is what set that modified date. As for changing it: don't. Leave it as is. It hurts nothing and back-dating the BSAs like this is a way of ensuring that any files added by mods (like say texture or mesh replacements) are able to override the BSAs contents by having a more recent modified date. If you want to learn more about the reasons behind it, you can read up on "archive invalidation" on the various Oblivion/Skyrim/Fallout wikis. Apparently it's a thing with several Bethesda games and the altered modified dates is the solution for it in Skyrim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadieWinter Posted May 11, 2018 Author Share Posted May 11, 2018 Ah! I see. I don't know why I have never actually seen it before because I have been using MO for awhile. Or maybe I have and just forgotten. I just know that I had read in the STEP guide that it should be done, and I figured it should be trusted because it is STEP. Whatever the case, I feel silly now. Lol! Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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