[Vortex Profiles: My Skyrim SE Saves are Gone?]

-UPDATED-

 

OK, after re-reading your post, this is what you did wrong.

You have a bunch of default savegames that have been saved to "C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\Saves"

 

You made 2 new profiles, and told each profile to manage their own saves, which means both profiles created their own SAVE folder inside your "C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\Saves" folder, which also in turn, changed your Skyrim.ini save path from "SLocalSavePath=Saves\" to (Example) "SLocalSavePath=Saves\GkmsFdhJ\" in your ini

 

This is what Savegame Managers also do, and people use them without understanding what the Savegame Manager does, then they accuse the Savegame Manager Author of making a virus that deletes their saves.

 

Because of what you did (Picking your default profile and telling it to manage saves) you've changed the path of your default profile so it can't find your old saves because the INI file path has been changed.

 

This is why it's important to watch the tutorials and read the Wiki.

 

Vortex didn't delete your saves, you experimented and changed things and changed the path to your saves.

They're still there, you just need to turn off the manage saves in your default profile and it should undo what you did.

 

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-ORIGINAL POST-

 

Look at your profiles, notice the ID in each one, such as "GkmsFdhJ" or "e1v3FmDhdu"

 

EX:

 

 

Now, Navigate to C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\Saves

 

And I'm willing to bet that inside the saves folder is a folder that Matches whatever the ID of your profile is, along with the saves you claim have been deleted.

 

People complain about this all the time with any Savegame Manager written by a modder and start claiming it's a virus that deletes their savegames.

 

So, if you've got everything set up correctly, the folders that match the IDs (yours will be different than mine) will be in your "C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\Saves" folder.

I have deselected the "save game" option when i clicked it accidentally and instead of going back to the default path it stays the same even after i delete the sub folder it makes how do i change it back to the default path, i have tried to reinstall vortex but it dosent change it. PLZ HELP!!