This utility bears watching!

[Falion]

Seems removing leftover scripts from mods that have been removed might actually be possible, with no ill effects according to the author of this tool.  For myself, I want to watch and read a bit, before actually taking the plunge of using the tool, yet it does seem to have promise.

www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/52363/?

[CollinMacleod]

I was looking at that too. It seems too good to be true. Which bothers me.

Edit: Lol, Avast went postal when I tried to grab it. I think I will wait.

[amgepo]

It looks a bit fishy. Coded in assembler, which is tedious and difficult than higher level languages (any language is higher lever than assembler) but offers total control over what you are doing (even C, C++ do that to say the truth). What it does is edit a file, nothing more and nothing less and the programmer is not capable of avoiding antiviruses to cry in panic?

Could be a legit file, but I would wait until other players test it first. I would wait some weeks.

[blockhead]

I'd agree withe Amgepo that it looks fishy. For writing a utility that just reads a file and writes a file, c or some other language would be much more suitable. Seems suspicious. Would not trust assembly for this particular situation ... unless the source is available and could thus be verified?

Off-topic:
I remember writing stuff in assembler back in the day. This was on my CP/M system was, so was for the Z80 CPU. Something as simple as reading from a file took a lot of setup. It was fun in its own way.

[Falion]

I agree with all of you, but I thought I'd post it, so we could keep track of it even if it does smell fishy.

[Seyheb]

I agree too. I'm watching the responses on the Nexus.

At least as I've just re-installed and re-started the game, I shouldn't need anything like that for a while.

[Seyheb]

There's a thread about it on the Beth forums that may be worth keeping an eye on too: forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1496493-new-save-cleaner-on-the-block/

[Falion]

Thanks Seyheb


Reading through the posts, it appears that it has possibilities, though I'm still pretty skeptical. I think many will be watching this one, just to see if it fails or ultimately succeeds, since the ability to clean up our saves would be fabulous.

[amgepo]

Agree 100%. If it's legit AND it works correcly (the intention may be good, but as far as I know Skyrim save's format is yet to be decoded), it will be a useful tool. On the other hand, there is a player already aplying it to Vilja for uninstalling, which ironically invalidates the uninstalling feature (when working, you can remove all the files related to Vilja and the uninstalling script remains will ensure every quest is shut down before ending itself. If you eliminate that remain, it won't shut down the quests.

[Falion]

It appears that Flexcreator is working on a tool that does similar things, while also doing arrays and fixing save game bloat...*eye brow lifted*, interesting.   He talks about it in the same thread as this tool we're watching, if you haven't read about it yet.

[CollinMacleod]

I saw that, not a very honorable thing to do.

[Falion]

Agree with you on the honorable thing Collin, not honorable at all, he should have just waited for his own release and let it stand on it's own merits. Hey, I'm all for, anything that makes our games work and behave better, but you shouldn't steal someones thunder just to promote your own. It's just bad taste and horrible manners!

[CollinMacleod]

I have been experimenting with it, I have to say I am a bit intrigued at this point. I grabbed a save off the nexus that was using about 50 mods I don't including SKSE. I used his program on it deleting mods. Then loaded and saved, then cleaned it. Then ran and talked to Vilja, then we were off on our merry way. Color me surprised. The file after collecting her was 4.82 meg. That's about par. For me anyway.

[Seyheb]

I've temporarily reinstalled my old game this morning to test something else. I may try cleaning one of my old saves from there before I go back to my new game.

I think it may be a bit early to be sure it is yet safe, but from the reports so far it's looking ok.

[CollinMacleod]

It is surely too early. It doesn't completely remove old mods. I know that for certain.