mlox - Does it recognize cleaned mods? : III

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:46 pm

If i clean an esp and tesame puts "Clean " in front of it's name, will mlox still recognize that esp?

If i rename an esp, will mlox still recognize that esp?

If i clean an esp by removing GMST's, thus changing the esp's checksum, will mlox still recognize that esp?

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:45 pm

If i clean an esp and tesame puts "Clean " in front of it's name, will mlox still recognize that esp?

No

If i rename an esp, will mlox still recognize that esp?

No again

If i clean an esp by removing GMST's, thus changing the esp's checksum, will mlox still recognize that esp?

Yes, as long as the name is the same

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:58 am

mlox primarily works on filename. File size is not checked for all mods, the main use of it is for warning about mods with evil GMSTs; although it is used for version checking as in some cases it has to identify a file by its file size (because a modder hasn't include version information in the file's name or the plugin header).

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:55 pm

mlox primarily works on filename. File size is not checked for all mods, the main use of it is for warning about mods with evil GMSTs; although it is used for version checking as in some cases it has to identify a file by its file size (because a modder hasn't include version information in the file's name or the plugin header).

Oh...didn't know that

I like to rename my mods for better organization (some plugins aren't named very well either). I had hoped it worked by the internal plugin information.

Bummer.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:23 pm

Oh...didn't know that

I like to rename my mods for better organization (some plugins aren't named very well either). I had hoped it worked by the internal plugin information.

Bummer.

Sadly, the Author and Description fields are often not used. I'd guesstimate a third of mods don't have anything in there and quite a number of those that do don't have anything really usable for version checking. There was some discussion on checksums / hashing in an issue raised over on the http://code.google.com/p/mlox/issues/detail?id=6.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:51 pm

Oh...didn't know that

I like to rename my mods for better organization (some plugins aren't named very well either). I had hoped it worked by the internal plugin information.

There really isn't any internal plugin information that would be reliable enough for recognizing plugins. And I think checksumming plugins would just bring up other problems, for instance cleaning would change checksums too.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:09 am

There really isn't any internal plugin information that would be reliable enough for recognizing plugins. And I think checksumming plugins would just bring up other problems, for instance cleaning would change checksums too.

Well fortunately for me I just started rebuilding my mod collection. So I don't have to (un)rename many. Maybe I can find a tagging program to do what I need instead. First time I don't read the instructions and I get burned (haha).