Installing SSE here can cause administrator and permission issues with certain mods.

This is the drive where your operating system is installed and also one that we want to try to avoid installing SSE to. What you will definitely see-through is a C drive. Yours will most definitely be different from mine. As you can see, I have four drives on my computer: C, D, E, and F. Let’s open up file explorer and head to This PC. Now let’s talk about where we want to install our game. Install LocationsĪlright so now that you understand why we need to reinstall our game cleanly. If the game is vanilla before we mod it, we won’t have any issues unaccounted for later down the road. And these files can cause problems for us later down the road unless we reset the game back to its a vanilla state. Regardless of which of these methods you used, there have still been additional files placed in this folder. putting files in this folder by hand, through steam, or possibly even another mod management tool. I’m showing you this because chances are you’ve probably already installed mods on your game.

I have some other files in here because I play around with the Creation Kit and other mod development tools if you’re wondering. Ideally, with Mod Organizer, the mod management tool we’ll be using for our game, these folders should look identical. One thing that I want you to see though is that, if we open up both data folders (by the way, this is where all the data needed for your game to operate is stored), we see there isn’t too much discrepancy between the two. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to preserve the slim nature of this folder entirely but we will do the best we can to keep it as clean and pristine as possible. For comparison, this is my heavily modded game folder. Think of this as your healthy newborn child–one that you will be able to mold and shape as you please. Clean, organized and most importantly stable. You are the witness of an entirely vanilla Skyrim Special Edition game. What you’re seeing now is something really amazing.

Skyrim data folder location