Autocleaning a mod through SF1Edit removes any Identical to Master (ITM) records that authors sometimes copy over to their mod for various reasons, then forget to remove, also for various reasons. It also restores improperly deleted records and marks them as hidden instead. Have a mod that needs cleaning in no way implies a mod author made mistakes or the rest of the mod is bad, if that was the case, I wouldn't use it. Since ITM records are the most likely issue at this point, I'm providing a guide to cleaning mods only to limit the number of patches that may otherwise be needed to make two things work together. Keep in mind there are very rare cases where mod authors have left ITM records in place for a specific reason and blindly cleaning all of your mods may break something.
1. If you have not set up QuickAutoClean please refer to my guide here.
2. From Mod Organizer, select the SFSE drop-down directly above the Plugins tab in the right panel and select SF1EditQuickAutoClean64
3. Click the Large 'Run' button to load the program.
4. When the Quick Auto Clean window opens, double-click the file you need to clean.
5. SF1Edit will launch with the QuickAutoClean option, load any required files and then the file you are cleaning. Once everything is loaded it will run through two processes. One to Undelete and Disable References, and one to Remove "Identical to Master" records.
6. After the auto clean process is complete, the cleaned esm file will be saved automatically. Close SF1EditQuickAutoClean by clicking the X in the top right corner.
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