Need help bringing my Dawnguard.esm back

[Diamond Grey]

I clean my Dawnguard and it's wild edits and now it's gone in the left plane of mod organizer. What do I do to fix that, so it shows up again?

[Just Don't]

How hard did you clean it? lol

• Verify the file still exists in its original location (steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\Data\Dawnguard.esm.
• If it does and still doesn't appear in MO's left side (are you sure it's not inside a separator or somewhere among all your other installed mods?) revert to the original file. xEdit should keep a backup of this file, or you can verify file integrity in Steam to redownload any modified/missing files.
• After doing that you can attempt to clean it again (why, who knows, but you do you).

Edited July 4, 2022 by Just Don't

[Tlam99]

Reinstall and do NOT clean this game masters.

[Diamond Grey]

So were do I go in Steam to redownload any modified/missing files. Because it's not in steam only Dawnguard.bsa is in steam. I also found the backups.

[Just Don't]

40 minutes ago, Diamond Grey said:

So were do I go in Steam to redownload any modified/missing files. Because it's not in steam only Dawnguard.bsa is in steam. I also found the backups.

If you found the backups you can move these into your \Data folder, just verify it's called exactly as the default file Dawnguard.esm, no other file extension or words in the name.

As for how to verify integrity in Steam, try doing a quick google search or something, this isn't hidden knowledge and it's way faster than waiting for someone else to give you the information.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0C48-FCBD-DA71-93EB

Edited July 4, 2022 by Just Don't

[Diamond Grey]

Thank you so much it helped a lot, I got Dawnguard.esm back.