Vilja started having problems again after I left her home

[delj]

I left Vilja at home for a while and when I returned she had gone.  I found her back at the Inn in Whiterun.  Now that I have her following me again she isn't working right.

She is wearing her 'home' outfit all the time but also a pair of boots she was not previously wearing at 'home'.

I can't check her gear... the window never appears

She will no longer wear outfits or wardrobes automatically or when manually selected.

When I try to modify a wardrobe or outfit the inventory window is blank. I can see my items but in her tab there is nothing (not even what she is currently wearing)

I tried the reset spell and it did nothing.

I tried reinstalling the mods, which previously fixed her not wearing wardrobes, but this time it isn't helping.

I also noticed the custom face that I had previously been using is no longer working.  She's using her default face/hair. (I tried reinstalling that as well but did not help)

Any ideas how to get her working again? I'd like to travel Solstheim with her but if she's this glitched I wont be able to.

[blockhead]

Not playing Skyrim, I am guessing based on my experience with original Oblivion Vilja ...

Do you have two Vilja's? Or, rather, has Vilja been killed and somehow re-spawned? If so, that would reset her inventory (deleting eveything in it and replacing it with her starter outfit). Again, this is just a wild guess.

[delj]

The equipment is still in her inventory but I can only see it if I mod an outfit. She wont open the inventory for 'show me your gear'. Also, she is wearing an outfit I gave her, she just wont change properly.

I decided to just start over with her, completely uninstalled etc. Will see if she behaves this time.

[Dova]

If you haven't uninstall Vilja yet, could you check the number of followers your character has via the console?

[delj]

I already did the uninstall and she's fine now. As for followers I only have Serena and the Housecarls for every hold.

[Dova]

I hope your vilja stays fine in the future, but if you do run into trouble, dismiss all your followers and make sure your current follower count is 0 before recruiting them can usually reset their follower ai behavior.

Vilja doesn't necessarily stay home like you tell her to, if she tends to wander to random locations without obvious reason, she has either made up her mind to visit that location when you are gone, or she is in previous ai loop that made her wanted to visit that place. You can wait her out, or recruit her and dismiss her again, and see if she goes back home or heads to the same location again.