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Here you will find hints how to use NMM and how to compensate it's shortcomings.

Atm this is only a place I moved all NMM related information to from Conglomerate 01

NMM & Hints

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  The Grabbing:

• grab NMM from GitHub: NMM Releases

The Installation:

• To prevent issues with Windows User Account Control [UAC], and read/write speed issues, install NMM on the same drive as your Skyrim installation.

• For more information how to install NMM: Gopher NMM installation   

• Best to look the whole Gopher series for NMM

• If you want to merge mods later it might be of interest to learn how to install NMM right to prevent a folder chaos later on.

• ⚠️Be sure to install Nexus on the same drive you installed Skyrim on!

Hints (from my experience):

• NMM struggles with bigger mods or mods that add a lot of files, best to download them manually and add them via NMM "add mod from file" icon, actually do that with all mods to create mod backups.

• (file/folder protection issue) after uninstalling mods - that have overwritten files from other mods - its better to restart NMM before installing/reinstalling mods

• (file/folder protection issue) after uninstalling mods and before installing/reinstalling new mods - that use the same Skyrim folders - its best to restart NMM

• it's better to uninstall mods instead of just deactivating them

• just reinstalling mods repeatedly will change nothing during the install process (means same overwrite will be done, FOMODs don't restart). It is better to uninstall and then install again

• the higher the number of mods added to NMM, the slower it will get (doesn't matter if the mods are installed or not, its the overall quantity that slows it down, tested with over 1200 added mods)

• if a mod installation fails and NMM doesn't continue to install => close NMM => restart and remove (delete) the mod => close NMM => restart and add mod again via "add mod from file" icon. There is a good chance that this will cause leftovers in skyrim/data.

• you can get a copy of your load order as *.txt -to post it on LL for example- from NMM plugin window => click on "export current load order" icon

• mods that are shown in RED in the NMM plugin window have missing masters

• It is good practice to check mod zips if they are NMM ready. Just look into them and check if the folder hierarchy is right.

• You can add single mod files to NMM via creating a folder with the mod name and add a DATA folder inside (and and more folders as needed)

  • drop the single mod file into the right folder and zip it up

  • add to NMM

  • The Idea behind this is to keep the overview what mods got installed, instead of installing mods manually and maybe forget to remove them later. This is especially true for patch files or mod files that don't come with an esp and single script files.

• NMM isn't great to do anything else with other than store/install mods, especially if you have a huge number of installed mods. I highly recommend to use LOOT or even better Wrye Bash for anything else, like sorting LO manually.