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Greetings, Over time I downloaded mods where the requirements include Bodyslide Outfit Studio. Okay, all good, I have it. It's in the CalienteTools directory. It's there, requirement met. Next I made sure other requirements are installed, yep, all good. Downloaded mods that require BodySlide. Some worked, some didn't Oh well. At least I had downloaded and installed all the requirements. Time passed, and I ran across a mod that requires that I need to "use" bodyslide outfit studio! Huh? What? But, I met all the developer's requirements, it's downloaded and in a directory. Isn't bodyslide strictly for mod developers? Uh oh. As a lowly gamer, am I'm supposed to be USING bodyslide? Yikes!!! But the mod websites don't reveal "how" to use Bodyslide! Off I go to Youtube and find a popular tutorial. At last I'll learn "The Ways of Bodyslide." I didn't have the exact body preset file that's in the youtube video, so I decided to just pick another at random and learn off of it. And so there was Nevernude. So I'll just learn off it, what could possibly go wrong? After completing about 2/3 of the tutorial, I decided to take a break and play some SkyrimSE. Shock! My character appeared with the vanilla underwear and bra and no longer my preset!!! How can this be? I'm just learning to use Bodyslide! The game's not even running. My "reckless learning" infused into the game, and caused big time damage! No worries, I'll just go to racemenu, find my preset, and fix it back. The CBBE Morphs menu was disabled, and my character looks horrible. No matter what I tried, it stayed disabled. Websites give lengthy instructions how to re-enable CBBE Morphs, nothing worked. My only recourse was to restore from backup. So I selectively restored the Skyrim Special Edition directory and the directory that Vortex uses. EaseUS backs up fast enough but selective restore of 200 gigs uncompressed backup filz took almost all night. After that, everything was normal again. EaseUS got the job done, but took hours. I should have come to this discussion forum before even thinking about learning Bodyslide Outfit Studio. Thanks for indulging all this. Obviously, by now, I can certainly use your advice, as to how, as a novice, I can safely learn "The Ways of" Bodyslide Outfit Studio.