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My husband
plays the main installation. I have an installation for me and my
son, with a lot of leveled list mods. I need to merge an esm with
the other esps in this installation. But TESTool insists on merging
only the main installation of my husband's. I tried changing the
name of the main one like I did when installing the other
Morrowinds, but then I get a "can't find" message when trying to
start TESTool in the installation for me and my son.
I have
TESTool in the folder with the Morrowind INI like the directions
say.
What do I do?
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I'm assuming
you keep the plugins for your son and yourself in a separate
subdirectory. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
When you did
your "Manage Active Plugins" list, did you point TESTool at that
subdirectory? If so, it should remember that when you subsequently
do a merge. If it's pointed at another location where your husband's
mods are kept, it won't "remember" yours.
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My husband plays the main installation.
OK.
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I have an installation for me and my son, with a lot of
leveled list mods.
Fine.
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I need to merge an esm with the other esps in this
installation.
Do you mean Merge Objects/Levelled
Lists?
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But TESTool insists on merging only the main installation of
my husband's.
So, when you select the option to
Manage Plugins, I'm assuming that TESTool opens the Data Files
folder for the registered, default installation? Yes?
TESTool does that quite often with multiple installations.
It forgets which Data Files you are dealing with and tends to look
at the last one you managed through TESTool, or the default.
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I tried changing the name of the main one like I did when
installing the other Morrowinds, but then I get a "can't find"
message when trying to start TESTool in the installation for me
and my son.
I'm not sure what you mean here?
What name did you try to change? What does TESTool say it can't find
exactly?
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TESTool might
check Morrowind installation folder directly from Windows registry.
This is just a guess but if you changed the morrowind installation
folder location in the windows registry you might get TESTool
working with other installations too. And be really careful when you
edit registry.
The registry entry which data needs to be
changed is (in W2k, don't know about other
OS's):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bethesda
Softworks\Morrowind\Installed Path
Remember to change that
registry value back to the original afterwards...
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That's not
necessary though. I use TESTool with multiple installations and it's
fine.
The problem is only that TESTool doesn't realise which
Data Files folder it's supposed to be looking at and goes to the
last one that the Manage Active Plugins option was applied
to.
Just select this option and then browse to the Data Files
folder for the installation you are working with and take it from
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Part of the
problem is that the Windows 'Open' file window just shows you the
name of the directory you're looking at; it doesn't show the
complete file path.
With several different Morrowind
installations, that makes it hard to keep track of just which 'Data
Files' directory you're looking at. 
What
I usually do is to click the 'Up One Level' button (in the 'Open'
file window) a few times until I've figured out just where I am.
Then I browse to the right directory from there.
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GMTA. Read my
reply, above. 
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GMTA. Read my reply, above.
I did read your post, and all
the other posts,. before posting my reply.
So what's your
point?
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The problem is only that TESTool doesn't realise which Data
Files folder it's supposed to be looking at and goes to the last
one that the Manage Active Plugins option was applied to.
Just select this option and then browse to the Data Files
folder for the installation you are working with and take it from
there.
Problem is that I'm not given
the option of choosing which data files folder to manage. It shows
the contents of my husbands data files folder. And I see no way to
select another.
I can go to other installations in the
Generate Detailed Conflict Report. But not in Manage Active Plugins.
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Sorry 'Sprite,
I was mistaken. You're quite correct there is no way to browse to a
different folder in the Manage Active Plugins view. I think I was
talking about the Clean options. 
Try choosing the "Clean... (save results in Clean folder)"
option, then browse to the correct Data Files folder and clean any
one file.
Now, check it again and see whether it opens the
correct Data Files location automatically this time.
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Problem is that I'm not given the option of choosing which
data files folder to manage. It shows the contents of my husbands
data files folder. And I see no way to select another.
I
can go to other installations in the Generate Detailed Conflict
Report. But not in Manage Active Plugins.
I didn't look carefully enough
either.
Sorry!
What I do:
I have just one copy of TESTool (in
a 'MW Utilities' directory), and several different shortcuts that
each 'Start in' a different Morrowind installation directory. When I
run TESTool from one of the shortcuts, I get the prompt asking about
using the .ini file in the 'Start in' directory for that
shortcut.
Works fine, without needing to put TESTool in every
one of my Morrowind installations.
Also, I just double
checked: the 'Manage Active Plugins' opens whichever directory I
have set as my 'Start in' for the short cut I used to run
TESTool.
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So
try creating a TESTool shortcut with your Morrowind directory as the
'Start in' directory, and see if using that shortcut solves your
problem.
(Right click on the shortcut and select
'Properties'; then enter the full path to the Morrowind directory
with the .ini file you want to work with.)
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Well back
before lightening fried my old motherboard I had a few tools setup
to run in more than one directory sorta. I think if I remember right
testool was one of them. All I did was rename "testool.exe" to
"testool2.exe" for the second copy. I'm fairly certain anyway I did
that for testool also because I can't remember needing to change
directories. You might want to give this a try if I'm remembering
correctly it should work. Just make a seperate link to run the one
you want after the rename (like your name testool), anyway hope this
helps.
O I didn't see the post above mine earlier. I'll have to
remember that "ini" file idea. That sounds like a good solution. I
never knew that was possible cool!
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