


Easiest way to get started with Bain is to just grab all your old mod archives and move them to the Installers directory. As noted below, Bain looks for packages in the Morrowind\Installers directory.And since Bain won't initialize until you visit the Installers tab, you'll save a bit of time if you weren't planning on visiting it anyway.

This will cause Mash to try to avoid the Installers tab when it starts up. You can choose to "Avoid on Startup" (again from column context menu).it's safe to disable Bain and then later re-enable it if you prefer.) (Note that this does not erase previously stored info. You can disable Bain entirely by unchecking "Enabled" in the column context menu on the Installers tab.In particular, the first time you start Bain, it will take a long time (on the order of three to ten minutes or more) to initialize.However, if you have just added a bunch of packages, then Bain will take longer to intitialize, since it will need to scan all new/modified packages.If you've done this before, and no new packages are installed, and the machine is "warm", then it will take on the order of ten seconds. When you first visit the Installers tab after starting Mash, Bain will need to go through an initialization process.Packages can be either archive files in (zip, 7z or rar format) or directories (aka Projects). Everything listed under the Installers tab is a package. A Package is a collection of esps, esms and/or resource files.You may have to read sections further down before this section makes full sense.
