Antioche Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Between me loading someone else's savegame, ( which had a savegame number on it of about 4850 ) and "Streamsaver" making twenty hardsaves in a row before rewriting them; my 'hardsave' number has skyrocketed to around 6000!!! First, should I even be concerned with this? Is there a maximum number of savegames? am I risking data corruption allowing the number to blossum like a mushroom in a Dunmer cave-system? Secondly, HOW do I reset the ini to a lower number? it MUST be the 'keeper of the tape' as it were, remembering what the 'last save number' was, and adding a digit... Is there an editor to remove the # completely? as even if I reset it, the moment I load an 'old save' with a super high number, it will reset that number to follow after it...I COULD I guess load off of a quicksave ( no number there ) after clearing savegames. This is a headache, but I don't want to suddenly find myself with a weird "omg" glitch on my characters because of some numeric inconsistency. ~ Thanks in advance guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezdimona Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 did you ever think of just deleteing some of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antioche Posted February 25, 2009 Author Share Posted February 25, 2009 Ya ya.. problem is, Something, somewhere, remembers what the "last number" was, irregardless of what files exist in the savegame folder. :( Deleting files does no good if the ( ? ini ? ) doesn't reset it's numerical sequence to the beginning. ( Thanks though Dezdimona !! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exanimis Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 So are you saying that you don't mind having 6000 saves as long as you can set the count back to 0? Just delete the saves that you don't want, if you want the count set back to zero, you can delete all of the saves or reinstall the game and start with a new character. Deleting all the saves should reset the count as the next save will be the first save in the save game folder but doing that will mean that you can't go back to a previous save if you need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezdimona Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 when was the last time you did a Defrag and hard drive clean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antioche Posted February 25, 2009 Author Share Posted February 25, 2009 *Smiles* I don't have 6000 saves, I have about fourty between all my characters. Loading a pre-created character once a ways back; ( Cocoa I think, a pretty chocolate elf, ) as a base template to work a face from, saddled me with a "Save # 5865 cocoa level 1 Imperial dungeons" in my save game file. I assume the guy made the save # that high to avoid possible conflicts with other people's savegames. The problem is, ever since then, Oblivion has been "adding a one" to the end of it's "last known" save number... Okay? So, the result a month later, is that my saves have #'s on them in the 6K range. No, I don't have that many savegames, but the ini file or whathaveyou THINKS I do, and every time it generates a new hard save ( non auto save, non quicksave, ) it rolls the number up.... I can't just reinstall the game, Yes..yes, I have my entire 17gig data folder tucked safely away in another area, lest I destroy my carefully balanced working copy of Elder scrolls...BUT.... My InI has been significantly tweaked, things like streamline, and Frostcrag Reborn have made changes to the file that honestly, I THINK I have to manually achieve in some cases. The short version is "I need my ini file" but I can't find out where it is keeping track of savegame #s. ( I defrag my HD about once a week, *winks* I'm a personal trainer now, but I was actually a programming engineer at a television station for about five years, got that whole defrag thing down~ GOOD advice though !! especially if I HAD that many saves !! OmG ) (( As an addendum, I pulled all my saves out of their folder, leaving only the autosave and quicksave of the character I am currently playing, and then once i8n-game, made a hard save...the save's number turned out to be...88..... ??? something linked to the character in the quicksave ??? or....more likely, something still buried in the ini....byt WHY 88? ...supra odd. )) ~A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 You could... I dunno, just stop using a plugin that saves when you don't need to. Quicksave and autosave tends to work well enough for me when it comes to not losing progress due to crashing and bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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