very nice! thank you for this, it was quite a pain going through the process to get Nehrim set-up, but this just makes it so much simalar! Thx!

I made a crude utility that allows me to switch between multiple copies of TES4.
It handles switching the Profile.txt and DLCList.txt in the Application Data folder, switching entire profile folders (including savegames and the ini) in My Documents and swapping the entire game folder.
It also swaps your bash mods folders for you to.
So anytime you switch you are working with an entirely new app environment.

Caveat is that you have to keep a copy of your tools installed for every copy of oblivion you have.
Also you can't install wrye bash in an external folder.

As long as wrye bash, obse and whatever tools you use are installed locally to the game folder, all of their settings will be retained.

This works great for me. I can still use wrye bash, it detects the correct plugins and I still still have multiple save profiles for each app instance.

You could make a batch script that does the same.

The only benefit of my util really is that it takes care of creating new clone copies and tracks which clone is active.
I could fix it up for public release though if this is something people need.

Please!

But my Oblivion game folder is super hefty (like 30 some gigs) so it only renames the folders right? No actually moving things on a hard drive.

I've had some success with using the Wrye Nash version http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1116000-mods-that-work-with-nehrim/page__view__findpost__p__16439981.

Eureka!!!

I finally got this to work and just like I'm certain you all knew totally operator error.

When it said that it managed the Plugins.txt - I saw such a file named as such in the save game folder and since that time assumed that was the file and no it was not. As the first post points out:
Not the save game folder.

I posted that I thought it was the save game folder repeatedly and not one person corrected me. ...interesting.

Perhaps that contributed to their demeanor ?

I guess I should take it that you were speaking for yourself here.

always amazes me that no matter how much time you put into this forum or how helpful you try and be any chance to noob some one is usually taken.

Don't worry about it Psymon. I also at first was very confused where this plugins.txt was...had to search my hard drive for it. I dislike all this silly Vista/Win7 "appdata/roaming/local" craziness.

I just cant get this to work, am I doing something wrong?

I have the latest version of English Nehrim, I set the ini for INIzer for Nehrim.ini and Nehrim_Plugins.txt

I've been to both my documents\my games\oblivion and made a copy of the nehrim's Oblivion.ini and renamed it to Nehrim.ini and backed up the original, then I went to AppData\Local\Oblivion and backed up my plugins.txt and made a copy and renamed it to nehrim_plugins.txt
And I ran Nehrim and it acts like I didnt have a InI and if I try to load a nehrim save it says there are no master plugins

Im on Windows 7, and my Nehrim is installed in C:\Games

Thank you for any help

This was a great step in the right direction.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1142151-rel-mtes4-manager/ is the more complete answer.

See http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1159104-nehrim-and-mods-ii/ for more information as well.

wow, shadeMe is on fire! I hope you're so prolific in Skyrim as well