Help Me! : III

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:21 am

hi, I have a problem with saving my mod, ok so I have a mod in progress right? I decide to save it and come back to it later, so then when i go back to it and load all the stuff (morrowind.esm and MyMod.esp) and then i work on it some more, and then i try to save it and it doesn't save it just says this:

file "MyMod.esp" is a master file or is in use, please select another file to save to.

why does it say that? can someone help?

EDIT: fixed, thanks to Pluto

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:17 pm

bump

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:40 am

This sounds like it might be a Vista or 7 issue with UAC.

When launching the CS exe, right-click, and select,, "Run as administrator". Load your esp and save.

Hope that helps.

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:50 pm

Is your mod an ESP or ESM (you have written both in your question)

You cannot make change to an ESM.
If it is an ESP, you have to remember to set your ESP as the Active File.

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:44 am

Is your mod an ESP or ESM (you have written both in your question)

You cannot make change to an ESM.
If it is an ESP, you have to remember to set your ESP as the Active File.

oh, woops, I meant to type "esm"

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:02 pm

oh, woops, I meant to type "esm"

Then you can't alter it. If you have a ton of work that you don't want to loose, you can change it to an ESP.
Unless you're making a very large mod, there is not really any reason to use an ESM. A simple ESP is the standard way to make mods.

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:02 am

Then you can't alter it. If you have a ton of work that you don't want to loose, you can change it to an ESP.
Unless you're making a very large mod, there is not really any reason to use an ESM. A simple ESP is the standard way to make mods.

oh crap wait, its an esp im trying to save, not an esm, so why doesn't it save?

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:44 am

Is there any possibility you renamed a .esm to .esp? If so, that won't work because there is a bit set in the header of the plugin that says whether the plugin is a master or just a regular plugin. So if you did that, you'll need to change it back to .esm like it was, then use the Wrye Mash function to "Copy to ESP". There are other tools that can do that too.

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:26 pm

Is there any possibility you renamed a .esm to .esp? If so, that won't work because there is a bit set in the header of the plugin that says whether the plugin is a master or just a regular plugin. So if you did that, you'll need to change it back to .esm like it was, then use the Wrye Mash function to "Copy to ESP". There are other tools that can do that too.

no, i just save it straight to esp, then when i open construction set again to work on it some more and save, it gives me that save error

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:05 pm

Did you set your mod as the Active File in the CS?

You have to do that each time you work on it, otherwise you cannot Save it because the CS thinks you're trying to save the Morrowind.esm

How to:
Under the Data Files in the CS, double click Morrowind.esm, and then highlight your mod and click "Set as Active File" button in the lower left corner. Then "OK"

» Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:03 am

Did you set your mod as the Active File in the CS?

You have to do that each time you work on it, otherwise you cannot Save it because the CS thinks you're trying to save the Morrowind.esm

How to:
Under the Data Files in the CS, double click Morrowind.esm, and then highlight your mod and click "Set as Active File" button in the lower left corner. Then "OK"

YES! IT WORKED!! thank you so much man! now I can save my mods properly!