So I started a brand new game, killed the dragon, returned to Dragonsreach and became Thane at which point I was assigned Lydia... the problem is she never appeared. I looked up her ID and tried the "moveto" command but the game reported invalid ID. I double, then triple checked the commands and ID's but the game does not recognize that she exists...

Frustrated, I started over fresh and repeated the process but got the same result... no Lydia.

At this point I decided to simply spawn her using the "placeatme" command. She appeared and obeyed (good girl) but when I release her she does not return to Breezehome, but rather back to Dragonsreach. Grrr.

I have bought Breezehome and all of the upgrades but she still will not return. Also, once she spawned I tried the "moveto" and it now teleports me to her room in Breezehome but no Lydia as she is at Dragonsreach.

Not sure what else to do about this besides reload a save and just live without her. I am not running any mods that effect her. The only non item mods that I am running are HBE hardcoe Balanced Skyrim, PISE Improved Skyrim Experience, Deadly Dragons, and Midas Magic.

Anyone else have this problem? How do you fix it, if fixable?

this keeps happening to me too, past 4 saves, i have been just doing player.placeatme 000a2c8e when i want her and when i let her go i dont have to have her sitting in that chair watching me sleep anymore lmao

If you are running a mod that affects any player home it may screw up the way Lydia spawns, if she spawns at all. This happened to me and I had to delete the mod to get Lydia back. There are some discussions about this in the Nexus forums.

I did a search for "Lydia" but it returned literally 100's of threads and the first few pages did not address my issue. I also read the Wiki topic as well but it did not have a definitive solution. I am running Dovakin Hideout, but this happened before I installed it. Very odd. I hope Beth addresses this in a future patch.

What mods are you running that might be at fault? I assume none of the ones that are just making things pretty, but there are certainly others involving Lydia. List them for us - or turn them all off and then start your game from just before you should encounter her (first time visiting Dragonreach) and try them one at a time. It may even be a combination of two or more mods.

I'll just wait for a Beth patch. She is not important enough to spend hours trying to figure it out by mod isolation. Just thought that someone might know of a specific mod problem or have a quick fix.

Here's the mod that did it for me and there are comments about the problem a few pages back:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5014

Tried reloading a save before becoming Thane with all mods that modify Breezehome removed but still no Lydia. I suppose I'll have to wait for Beth to patch this or for the CK to be released so it can be properly modded.

My Riften housecarl hasn't spawned in my current game (unmodded) either, but the others are there.