Using Bethesda net mods in conjunction with NMM

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Greetings SkyrimSE modding community,

 

For many of you out there this may seem like a noob question (at least I hope so) but I honestly don't know how to do this and remain sane.

>Subscribing< to a mod through Bethesda.net that could then be force updated by an external third party program that has no regard for how such an update might affect the rest of my load order or the saves that depend on it sounds a lot like volunteering to be driven absolutely crazy. (I'm looking at you Steam Workshop >.< ). So can anyone tell me what the steps are for those of us who primarily mod from the nexus (and use an entirely separate tool for managing our mods) but want a mod that is only offered on Bethesda.net?

I'm assuming that I have to:

- start the game

- log in to Bethesda.net through the in-game menu

- subrscribe to whatever mod I want to use

AND THEN

- locate the local files on my hard drive, re-archive them, move them to my preferred mod manager and then UN-subscribe from the Bethesda.net source..?

Am I missing anything? Does anyone know offhand if Bethesda.net downloads directly to the data folder or does it do something else, like Steam workshop, and place the downloaded mod in a separate directory?

If you've stuck with me to this point I offer you my sincerest thanks and, if you can actually teach an old dog like me how to do this you may just have a new best friend.

 

Cheers