
From my hours of scouring the interwebs concerning what these files are and do, they are files that are only necessary as part of the subscribe feature of Steam Workshop mods, and are completely unnecessary if using a Mod Manager or manually modding Skyrim or Skyrim SE. Last, but certainly not least, you may eventually encounter.

Converting mods for personal use is absolutely fine, though, so no worries there. Bad manners at best, potentially illegal at worst, and will get you banned from most mod hosting websites and generally ostracized by the modding community. First, you either have to have regular Skyrim ("Oldrim") installed in order to do the "Sub>Download>Extract>Repack>UnSub" method, or an alternate way to download/acquire the mod.ĭISCLAIMER: You should NEVER convert and re-upload someone else's work without their express consent, even if giving them credit for the mods creation. You very well can use Steam Workshop mods with Skyrim SE, but it does take a bit of knowledge regarding not only converting mods from Skyrim to SSE, but also a couple additional steps compared to using and/or converting mods from Nexus, etc.
