Kyrenjai Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 (edited) After Verifying GameCacheFiles and Renaming My Old Saves...when I started up the Game again, I have no Saves?? How do I get the game to read my Old Saves? Edited September 8, 2012 by Kyrenjai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy1123 Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Greeting!!! It seems like you may have lost game extension associations. When you renamed the files, by name changing, did you leave off the .ESS extension? Without that, even though the game save could be valid, the game itself will not associate it with the save game loader. Also, make sure the saves are in the proper path for the game to find them. Normally it would be : \Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrenjai Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 Greeting!!! It seems like you may have lost game extension associations. When you renamed the files, by name changing, did you leave off the .ESS extension? Without that, even though the game save could be valid, the game itself will not associate it with the save game loader. Also, make sure the saves are in the proper path for the game to find them. Normally it would be : \Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrenjai Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 I did leave off the ESS--omg--Can I go back and add the ESS or is it too late? The Saves r where u just posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy1123 Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 yes, you can add the .ess back on the save game files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrenjai Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 I added the .ess to my re-named Saves. Launched the Game and had the Continue/New/Load options. I hit Continue and it said No Valid Saves yet they r right there in the Re-named Folder. Now what?, plz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualBlack Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 When you say 're-named folder' do you have your saves folder named correctly and in this directory: Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves\(save games in here) *opps, I didn't fully read the post by Brandy_123. They already explained the folder structure. Sorry about the redundancy* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy1123 Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Lets start at block 1. If you purchased the game, you should be able to make some progress following these guidelines... Follow these steps. If your game is a legal copy, this should fix your problem or at least isolate it to corrupted saves. 1: run the game.2 : start a new character. 3 : once you get past the character creation, save the game. 4 : Then exit the game. (we will try and load the file you just saved)5 : Then run the game (through NMM or through steam)6 : Load the save game you just saved. (if everything to this point works, your old game files are probably just corrupted)7 : If the save game you just did is not there or does not load, you need to uninstall the game and reload your purchased copy through steam. That should take care of some of these strange problems you are having. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrenjai Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 (edited) Let's just say....(thinking ahead abit xD) I did the above as u stated...and it does not load....and I uninstall and reload...where would b my Old Saves now? or r they gone forever? Or perhaps, I do as another Poster stated--make a copy of Saves--delete the Save Folder and the .Ini-----create a new toon and let the Game install a new save Folder--put the copy in that Folder. That worked for some but not for others, so I don't know which option is best. Thnx for ur continued support. Edited September 8, 2012 by Kyrenjai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrenjai Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 The other option ( from the other poster ) for possibly fixing this problem didn't work for me. I tried ur suggestion and the newly created Save on the New Toon did indeed load. What to do next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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