Hi all, newbie here.

And right off with a problem. After reinstalling Oblivion after almost three years dormant, I jumped right back into TES Construction Set and opened up a mod file I'd made way back when (just a simple little thing I built with a couple of custom CM Partners NPC companions in it). Completely forgetting how delicate things could be I managed to overwrite my only copy with a version that modified a NPC from another file. I don't know if that would normally be a problem, but TESCS did go a little wonky just as I was saving the file.

Now that esp won't load. In TES Construction Set it hangs on an Unable to Load Package error.

So I am hopeful that someone here knows a way to sort out this small esp file outside TESCS and recover the custom CM Partners NPCs. Hate to lose these guys if there is any hope.

Don't despair. Couple of things;

You can use http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11536 to http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php/TES4Edit_Cleaning_Guide of the dirty edits, or http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2114 to copy the good parts into a new esp to work with.

Thank you, Hanaisse, for the quick response!