UPDATE Nexus MOD Manager..? Transfer all the mods on MO..?!?

[Eikichi Onizuka]

I need your help, 

I still have 0.45.7 version, the last before the blocking of servers, fixed in version 0:46,

from my 0.45.7 version was no longer able to connect and then do the automatic update to the new version

now I want to update to last 0.49.2 version, but how do I install it ?

if I manually uninstall the old version, not the risk of having deleted the folder mod NMM, losing tutt the mods installed with the old version of NMM ?

how should I proceed to upate properly, without losing the NMM mod folder..?

[germanicus]

I need your help, 

I still have 0.45.7 version, the last before the blocking of servers, fixed in version 0:46,

from my 0.45.7 version was no longer able to connect and then do the automatic update to the new version

now I want to update to last 0.49.2 version, but how do I install it ?

if I manually uninstall the old version, not the risk of having deleted the folder mod NMM, losing tutt the mods installed with the old version of NMM ?

how should I proceed to upate properly, without losing the NMM mod folder..?

 

You can freely uninstall NMM manually. It will keep all your mods unintact. I did that several times end never lost a single mod.

Or you can start NMM, click on the update. Then the program will tell you to close active NMM window and continue with upgrade.

[Wolfoftheshadows]

This happened to me, but I was able to have two different versions installed and could run them together. So uninstalling your older version is the smartest way because your mods are all in a folder so uninstalling the program wont delete the folder. Just make sure to uninstall the older version because when I'd start up NNM it was the older version and not the newer one running.

[Eikichi Onizuka]

 

I need your help, 

I still have 0.45.7 version, the last before the blocking of servers, fixed in version 0:46,

from my 0.45.7 version was no longer able to connect and then do the automatic update to the new version

now I want to update to last 0.49.2 version, but how do I install it ?

if I manually uninstall the old version, not the risk of having deleted the folder mod NMM, losing tutt the mods installed with the old version of NMM ?

how should I proceed to upate properly, without losing the NMM mod folder..?

 

 

Or you can start NMM, click on the update. Then the program will tell you to close active NMM window and continue with upgrade.

 

the version I have does not allow you to update because they have blocked access, I can only download from the site of the new and intallarla manually ovvimente I have to uninstall the old version first, having never uninstalled manually I do not know if I will also remove the crtella Mod (with all my mod) if I uninstall the old one and then install the new one?

[germanicus]

Do not worry. As I said, you can freely uninstall old version and download a new version from Nexus. All I can say is: Nexus never delete or remove any mod from its directory. As a matter of fact, during the deinstallation you will got a box in which they say that you can freely uninstall present version without loosing data. The new version will install on the same place as previous with all active and inactive mods.

[Eikichi Onizuka]

Do not worry. As I said, you can freely uninstall old version and download a new version from Nexus. All I can say is: Nexus never delete or remove any mod from its directory. As a matter of fact, during the deinstallation you will got a box in which they say that you can freely uninstall present version without loosing data. The new version will install on the same place as previous with all active and inactive mods.

Thank you for clarification before proceeding, I wanted to be sure not to commit egregious mistake, mind you!

[germanicus]

No problem. it is always good to be cautious.

[gvman3670]

I'd suggest deleting NMM altogether (not the folder YET), installing Mod Organizer, then installing the mods you had in the NMM folder with MO. You can still go to Nexus and automatically download with MO just like you can with NMM. It will even open a web browser window to the Nexus if you tell it to.

 

I can't even begin to express how much better MO really is. There's no comparison.

[Eikichi Onizuka]

I'd suggest deleting NMM altogether (not the folder YET), installing Mod Organizer, then installing the mods you had in the NMM folder with MO. You can still go to Nexus and automatically download with MO just like you can with NMM. It will even open a web browser window to the Nexus if you tell it to.

 

I can't even begin to express how much better MO really is. There's no comparison.

On NMM I have in the Mod folders about 1200 archive files, active mod are 200, how do I transfer them all quickly on Mod Orgnaizer ?

from the files ESP / ESM wound is not clear to which I belong mod, then there are many who have no esp mod, so you only see the list of NMM, how can I remember all of those who were active in NMM ?

Which quickly and safe method do you advise me to move all NMM mods to MO, but without forgetting and losing anything on the Street..?

[chukkyjr]

 

I'd suggest deleting NMM altogether (not the folder YET), installing Mod Organizer, then installing the mods you had in the NMM folder with MO. You can still go to Nexus and automatically download with MO just like you can with NMM. It will even open a web browser window to the Nexus if you tell it to.

 

I can't even begin to express how much better MO really is. There's no comparison.

On NMM I have in the Mod folders about 1200 archive files, active mod are 200, how do I transfer them all quickly on Mod Orgnaizer ?

from the files ESP / ESM wound is not clear to which I belong mod, then there are many who have no esp mod, so you only see the list of NMM, how can I remember all of those who were active in NMM ?

Which quickly and safe method do you advise me to move all NMM mods to MO, but without forgetting and losing anything on the Street..?

 

 

this was also the reason i didn't use MO (yet), i tried to use it once, and midway MO transfer stopped and half of my mod was gone, i'm also curious how to move a huge number of mods from NMM to MO

 

though NMM is still kinda fine for me

[gvman3670]

In MO you can click a button to install from an archive. Just choose the NMM mod folder and pick what you want to add. Or you could just drag and drop them from the NMM folder into MO's mod folder then delete the empty NMM folder. MO also has a built in option for transferring from NMM to MO.

 

Not sure how well this all works, though. I just nuked everything and then added mods from the zipped archives I had (I keep all my archives that I like so it was no big deal). The reason I have my doubts is because NMM puts stuff into your Skyrim/data/ folder and MO doesn't. I went with a fresh and clean install, cleaned everything with TES5Edit, optimized some textures then started loading mods into Mod Organizer. It's been super stable and smooth since then and I can't break my Skyrim install now. And I currently have a few profiles running with each using some different mods.

[chukkyjr]

aside from different profiles, i don't really mind using NMM though since it's not like i'm going back to vanilla skyrim, but if it does improve stability i might as well try it

 

but how does it affect stability? they still load the same file, just different directory (i reckon MO use symlink function)

[gvman3670]

aside from different profiles, i don't really mind using NMM though since it's not like i'm going back to vanilla skyrim, but if it does improve stability i might as well try it

 

but how does it affect stability? they still load the same file, just different directory (i reckon MO use symlink function)

 

I think I have more stability because I have a clean, fresh Skyrim directory that only has Sheson' mempatch added to it (and my emulator and sweetFX of course), then the DLC was all scrubbed with TES5Edit and now it stays clean and unmolested.

 

When adding mods manually or with other mod managers you actually put stuff into the Skyrim directory and overwrite things, then if you remove the mod there's no guarantee what was overwritten and removed is going to get replaced. This leaves "holes" and they can be game breaking.

 

Mod Organizer never molests the Skyrim directory. At all. This means no holes. Ever. You can remove a mod and have no negative effect, unless it's a scripted mod but there are SKSE.ini entries to kill rogue scripts and you can roll back to an earlier save as well.

 

Just never needing to reinstall Skyrim is a good enough reason to use MO. Once you use it and see what all it's capable of (like showing redundancies, over'reads', suggesting LO fixes, reminding you of mods missing for saves, multiple profiles, each profile having it's own saves and .ini settings, automatic Nexus downloads (and browser), and so on) you'll be glad you switched and wonder why you didn't use it sooner.

[Lother]

If you're gonna use NMM, why not just manual install instead? It's the same exact thing, no advantages using NMM... In fact it's better manual installation than NMM because you can control what do you actually install file by file and what you remove, file by file, instead of this clumsy overwrite prompt sistem. But heh, surprise, MO allows as much control, no, more control over every single fie than manual installation.

 

Now if you realize how good manual install is, but want some really good features that you could fap at in total modder nerdgasm, well go MO, like any intelligent person would. (But don't be lazy and nuke completely your skyrim first)

 

But NMM? No point.

 

[shinji72]

For a while I used both. Some, the most basic, I kept on NMM, the rest, the mods I changed more between different PC profile, I used MO.

And i worked fine. You can just start moving (or redowloading) some mod on MO.

MO will see the mod that you have installed on NMM (because they are in the main skyrim data folder).

So it's more of a soft transition. You dont' have to make a hard jump from one system to the other. 

[germanicus]

For a while I used both. Some, the most basic, I kept on NMM, the rest, the mods I changed more between different PC profile, I used MO.

And i worked fine. You can just start moving (or redowloading) some mod on MO.

MO will see the mod that you have installed on NMM (because they are in the main skyrim data folder).

So it's more of a soft transition. You dont' have to make a hard jump from one system to the other. 

 

This is what I wanted to say but has limited English vocabulary. You know what Shinji; You are smart person, I followed many of your comments and you had 100 % so far. You should comment much often. I learned a lot from you. Thanks.

 

As for me, MO is more complicated for use then NMM. I'm NOT saying that MO is a bad program. Far be that from me, rather that I tried to use it but always stuck somewhere in the process. There is a great tutorial for using MO, but, I'm not that smart to figure it out since my English is poor.

 

[nutluck]

The last time I updated I just DLed the new version and then clicked it to install. It detected the old version and overwrote the relevant parts and worked perfectly fine.

[Guest Ragna_Rok]

uhm... wait a second guys... doesnt the latest version of nmm have some nasty habits of sniffing out informations from your own hdd? i think to remember a post here from some guy that analyzed his traffic, and nmm now collects infos about you i think.

 

dork1 joined big-brother i think...

[Dagren]

uhm... wait a second guys... doesnt the latest version of nmm have some nasty habits of sniffing out informations from your own hdd? i think to remember a post here from some guy that analyzed his traffic, and nmm now collects infos about you i think.

 

dork1 joined big-brother i think...

 

I don't use NMM.

 

MO user reporting in.

It just gives too much options compared to the NMM. Maybe if you are a casual or you just install few mods then NMM is okay but for bigger ammounts and varied combination of mods MO is a godly tool. Also your Skyrim stays always fresh becouse MO stores mods in the virtual space.

 

Hard to get used to it at the beginning but definitely worth the time.