CK Error: Lookup failed for ID

[shunter]

So I was planning to make my first mod (a custom follower) and downloaded the CK; I boot it up, get a random error related to a mod, press "ok" to ignore it, then proceed to click the "open data" button thingy on the top left (I'm sorry, I haven't learned how the CK works yet), open "Skyrim.esm" (just as shown in this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6EkN20LqA) and when I double click "Skyrim.esm" and press ok, I get tons of error messages one followed up by another, as being:

 

"MASTERFILE LOCALIZATION: Lookup failed for ID: 0X00012584 from strings file: STRINGS/Skyrim_english.dlstrings

 

'Yes to all' will disable all Warnings for this context."

 

Then I press "Yes" and I get yet another error exactly like this one but with another number instead, as being, in order

 

0x0001257D

0x00012561

0x00012554

 

(and a bunch of others, there are too many to post here)

 

And also a few like "MASTERFILE: NavmeshInfo 00028e37 has no parent space, ignoring"

 

"Master: Errors were encountered during InitItem for reference:

Base: 'ShipTrapdoor01MinUseHidden' (00061435)

Ref: "(00099315)

Cell: 'Wilderness' (0000967a) (2, -6) in world 'Tamriel' (0000003C)

 

See Warnings file for more information."

 

(again, a bunch of others, too many to post here)

 

And then just once I got into actually loading up all the stuff. The rest of the times, it just freezes like it's loading and I have to ctrl+alt+del.

 

Is my Skyrim messed up or what? I tried the "verify game cache integrity", but didn't really work.

 

Please help, I really wanna get into modding, but this is pissing me off.

[Chupy]

Hmm... to be sure, always use the latest game patch (v1.7.7.0.6), and the CK has a patch (v1.6.89.0).

 

All the steps are correct, no wrongs there. When making new mods that is the classic procedure; open CK, Go to data select Skyrim.esm and press OK.

 

The problems lies in all the warnings, you can have a couple warnings/errors but not so many.

 

So, either you have some nasty mods that somehow destroys your skyrim\data folder, or the main skyrim folder is messed up.

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Try first to patch everything and try again to load CK, but if still doesn't work... maybe uninstalling and installing fresh skyrim may work

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Usually CK isn't that hard to work with, you have just bad luck with all your technical problems

[gregathit]

I recommend you use steam to re-verify your game files. It could be that something has caused your skyrim.esm file to be messed up.

[shunter]

Alright, I told Steam to verify my game once again, and now at least despite getting the exact same amount of errors, it loads up.

 

Problem partially solved, since I don't mind the errors, as long as they don't interfere with CK itself...

[icecold29]

This seems like Strings error. what i have read about CK seems like it uses Stings files {Files inside data/strings/*String*.*}

 

Extract the files from original installation.. look up bsa's generally have these files example unpack bsa via bsa explorer look for folder strings/filename_EN.* select your corresponding language and extract files only donot extract the whole BSA archive..

 

example dawngaurd.bsa extract strings (EN) for me you choose yours and put them to {data/strings folder} overwrite if already there...

 

Otherwise i donot know..