How to remove custom part categories?

[gruff46]

So yesterday I installed a bunch of mods for Kerbal Space Program, probably like ten, and when i went into the gamer i had like 20 different part categories. It is literally impossible to play the game like this, because finding the parts i want is now a struggle. I only want the 7 default categories. Here's a screenshot showing what I mean;struggle.  PLS HELP

[SpannerMonkey(smce)]

Hi those categories are created via the mods plugin code and unless you uninstall the mod I don't think it's possible to remove them. Perhaps asking in the relevant mods thread may be better as this is more a preference than a bug

[Alshain]

To remove them, uninstall the mods creating them.

[Streetwind]

"Literally impossible"? I don't think those words mean what you think they mean...

It is actually considered good practice among modders to make a custom category for their modded parts, so players can easily see all the new parts added by a mod without having to scroll through the (potentially super-crowded) standard categories. However: part of this good practice is that parts are supposed to appear both in the custom category, and in one of the standards. An engine should always show up under Propulsion, even if there's an extra category for everything added by SuperEngineMod2000. Do you actually have parts that only show up inside custom categories, and don't also appear in one of the eight stock ones?

If that is the case, you have some work to do, because you need to change (or patch) the config file of every single part that doesn't show up in a standard category before you can remove the custom categories. (I mean sure, you could remove them first, but then you'd lose access to those parts completely...)

Edited September 19, 2016 by Streetwind

[gruff46]

Woo! Figured it out, inside my GameData folder there was a folder called "000_FilterExtensions Configs", I simply deleted the folder and problem solved! Thanks for the help anyways!

[gruff46]

In a way that kinda counts as a mod though, so you guys actually were right. I had to uninstall it