Tes3Mod:Dirty Saves

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If you add or remove mods from a game in progress, you're likely to end up with a dirty save. In brief, a save is dirty when it contains information that is mismatched with the current load list. The symptoms of a dirty save include: doubling, headless corpses, missing items, and crashes.

Reference Problems

• Most serious doubling related problems are due to mismatches in reference ids between the savegames and the mods they depend on.
• For more info, see Doubling.

World Map Corruption

• When mods are added to the game, the world map is updated to show any new landmasses those mods have added. However, those landmasses are not removed when the mod is removed.
• For more info, see World Map.