Setting up Save Games directories for Profiles

[stuckvalve]

I'm running Vortex 1.9.12 with Skyrim SE 1.6.640 onw Windows 10. I've just set up a second Vortex profile to start a new game/character. I used the "clone profile" feature so that I could simply turn off a few mods instead of having to enable ALL of them. I also clicked the toggle specifying separate Saves and separate Settings. It worked like a champ and I now have two active characters.

However, I noticed that it was dumping the save files of the new profile into the the global saves folder - which is where my original profile save files also defaulted to. The Saves folder has 2 new subdirectories - one for each profile. When I enable a profile, Skyrim.ini gets updated such that "SLocalSavePath=Saves\abc123xyz\" and points to that profile's subdirectory. Initially, those folders were empty so I used the "Transfer Save Games" function to segregate the existing files into their respective subdirectories and they show up nicely in the Save Games screen of Vortex.

Unfortunately, when I launch the Skyrim SE (using an SKSE64 shortcut from Vortex), I land on the Steam opening screen and it can only see the global saves directory. The contents of the subdirectories are completely invisible to it. (Full disclosure, I do allow Steam to sync saves to the cloud.) At this point, the "Save Games" tab in Vortex does nothing for me since Steam can't see these subdirectories. All I can do is use them to manually archive save files from the global saves folder, but I have to leave the most current saves for each profile out there so that Steam can see them. I feel like I've really close to getting this to work as desired, but just missing one small setting.

[Pickysaurus]

Starting via Steam shouldn't make any difference. I am guessing you have SLocalSavePath in a SkyrimCustom.ini or something which overrides Skyrim.ini

[stuckvalve]

Sorry that I missed this reply Pickysaurus. I only have the standard 3 ini files for SSE. I checked and in Skyrim.ini - SLocalSavePath points to the active profile subdirectory. In SkyrimCustom.ini,  SLocalSavePath points to \Saves. It would appear that the latter overrides the former, but it's not clear why Vortex is updating the wrong INI file when it sets up a new profile. I've flipped the lines between the two files and it seems to work fine now. I'll have to make a note to manually update this each time I switch profiles I guess. Thanks.