TES5Edit Cleaning Instructions
These are the actual instructions for the automated cleaning of plugins using TES5Edit:
1. Download TES5Edit.
2. Extract the downloaded archive to wherever you want.
3. Run the TES5Edit.exe file.
4. A dialog box appears listing all your installed plugins, with all currently active plugins ticked. Right-click anywhere in the list and pick "Select None".
5. Tick the boxes for the plugin you want to clean and for any of its implicit dependencies. You don't need to tick the boxes for its explicit dependencies as TES5Edit will automatically load them anyway.
6. Click "OK" in the dialog box.
7. A mod group dialog box may be displayed. Never tick any of the boxes in this dialog box when cleaning plugins. Click "OK" in the dialog box.
8. After the plugins have finished loading, right click the plugin you want to clean and select
"Apply Filter For Cleaning".
9. Filtering will likely take a long time.
10. Right click on the plugin you are cleaning and pick
“Remove "Identical to Master" records”.
11. Wait two seconds when the big warning message appears and click “Yes…”.
12. The plugin name will turn bold if any dirty edits were found and removed. Check the Messages tab to see what was changed. Make a note of the number of ITM records removed for when reporting the plugin to the BOSS team.
13. Right click again on the plugin you are cleaning and select
“Undelete and Disable References.” Again, check the Messages tab to see what was changed. Make a note of the number of undeleted and disabled references for when reporting the plugin to the BOSS team.
14. Try to close the program. If there were no dirty edits or deleted references found, the program will close immediately. Otherwise, a dialog box will be displayed, listing the plugin you cleaned.
15. Make sure that the checkbox for the plugin you cleaned is ticked, then click "OK". This will save the cleaned plugin. A backup of the plugin before cleaning is placed in your Data folder, with its file extension being the timestamp at which it was created.