Hadn't played Skyrim in a while and started up. I got a few new mods I didn't have before, and wanted to edit some statistics of an armor I got for my character.

Well, CK kept failing to load. I haven't used it since the last update...and I guess I should have just had Steam scan it and fix any bad files. And this is a common suggestion. But not knowing that...I uninstalled it instead.

Well, normally...even using add/remove programs and uninstalling Skyrim...all the mod files still exist.

Uninstalling the creation kit wiped 100% of my Skyrim folder. All my mods...everything. Even all the text files. I freaked out and was like "wtf"...then I googled and saw a bunch of comments over on Nexus that had quite a lot of people that had the same thing happen.

Luckily Windows 7 and Microsoft's awesome feature keeps a history of folders. I was able to rollback the folder to yesterday. Restored everything, except the few new mods I got. Got in game, and everything worked like it should.

Maybe this is a common problem, and the only place I've seen this mentioned was on Nexus...couldn't find anyone that said anything about it here. But my search skills aren't that great. And I tend to miss things xD

Anyway, don't uninstall the CK...especially if its to fix bad CK files...which I think might have had something to do with it.