DO NOT USE THIS. If you're like me, some website or youtube video has pointed you at this utility as a Skyrim Save Game Editor. It's supposed to be a save game manager and it's intent is to allow players to boot directly into a Skyrim save game without needing to suffer through the loading screens. It doesn't do that either, though.
On the first launch, and without any interaction, this app creates a randomly named subfolder in your Skyrim saves directory: %UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves
It then makes copies of (as far as I can tell) a random selection of save files, adding the .BAK extension; again, so Skyrim won't read them on boot.
The entire concept of this 'save manager' is pointless because it does NOT allow players to skip the title screen and auto-load into specific save files. Literally all it does is mess up whatever saves you have and boots the game as if it's first launch. The only available option is to start a new game.
To fix this, navigate into your saves directory: %UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves
Find the randomly named subfolder.
Highlight all files in the subfolder directory, cut them, navigate back to your saves folder, and paste the cut save files.
Rename the randomly created subfolder to BAK and move all the BAK files to it just in case. If previous saves don't load correctly, you may need to remove the BAK extension from these files and paste them back into your saves directory overwriting existing files. I wouldn't recommend doing this by a default unless you run into additional problems loading saves.
There's been some indication this actually installs a trojan. I can't verify because I boot from a locked down VHD, but if that is true, it's the only applicable intent of this utility because it does nothing beneficial for Skyrim players aside from causing headaches.
**UPDATE** I messed with this a little more. I understand what it's supposed to do now - effectively, it allows the creation of "Profiles" so multiple users can play the same Skyrim install and keep a group of save files separated. All it's supposed to do is create a profile and a subfolder, help organize save games per profile, then move any given profile's save games to the default Skyrim save game folder before boot.
I got it to work once - out of four attempts. The other three, the app flat-out refused to properly move files between directories before Skyrim boot or the files took so long to move, that only a few of them were accessible. This app doesn't work reliably or as intended and seems like a really good way to automate save file corruption.
this seems very suspicious. one of the posts says that his antivirus scanned it as a virus but that it was actually fine and if it tripped up anyone's virus alarm that they should just ignore it. and if you go far enough there are a lot of canned comments about how good this mod is. it might be fine but honestly you're better off getting mod organizer and using that for separate save games
Ya, I saw someone comment on the original fallout 3 version of this mod that its an advanced lollipop troyan. I had to look up what that was and apparently its a virus that installs toolbars and has pop ups on you screen every now and again. When I thought about it I remember my pc doing that kind of stuff around the time I installed it last year. Don't download it.
Dude..Thanks so much for this...my wife accidentally overwrote one of my saves...now with this I don't have to worry about that anymore....Also it was easy to install and worked immediately(Once I scanned for new profiles) then loaded my game viola instant play and save separation....Thank you again...
The worst part is, I'm almost positive that the Console version of Skyrim does actually save the seperate character savegames into their own tabs and stuff. When you load a game, you first select which character profile, then which save game.I don't know why it's not that way for PC. It's because of that I only keep one save file for each of my characters, since at any one time I am simultaniously playing five to ten characters, and just accidentally over-rode my level 45 Listener/Archmage/Hero-of-Stormcloaks character with a level 10 new character. T_T
@Sawgore they should have thought of it. Alot of games do this already such as Crysis. @Nomeka the console version doesnt do that the game isnt coded to do that.
Thy that but don't seem to work in SSE. Although the scrip will point the save to the new profiles directory but the game won't see the new directory and go back to the old save directory. T.T........
Been using your save management in Fallout 4 and love it. But can you also make this work for the Skyrim SE? So I can try to be the Good, the Bad, and the super evil in the same time. (^^^)
I connected it to the mod organizer version of Skyrim and when i click play it opens mod organizer and not the game but when I open the application it's link to it opens Skyrim. -_- *sigh*
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If you're like me, some website or youtube video has pointed you at this utility as a Skyrim Save Game Editor. It's supposed to be a save game manager and it's intent is to allow players to boot directly into a Skyrim save game without needing to suffer through the loading screens. It doesn't do that either, though.
On the first launch, and without any interaction, this app creates a randomly named subfolder in your Skyrim saves directory:
%UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves
It then makes copies of (as far as I can tell) a random selection of save files, adding the .BAK extension; again, so Skyrim won't read them on boot.
The entire concept of this 'save manager' is pointless because it does NOT allow players to skip the title screen and auto-load into specific save files. Literally all it does is mess up whatever saves you have and boots the game as if it's first launch. The only available option is to start a new game.
To fix this, navigate into your saves directory:
%UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves
Find the randomly named subfolder.
Highlight all files in the subfolder directory, cut them, navigate back to your saves folder, and paste the cut save files.
Rename the randomly created subfolder to BAK and move all the BAK files to it just in case. If previous saves don't load correctly, you may need to remove the BAK extension from these files and paste them back into your saves directory overwriting existing files. I wouldn't recommend doing this by a default unless you run into additional problems loading saves.
There's been some indication this actually installs a trojan. I can't verify because I boot from a locked down VHD, but if that is true, it's the only applicable intent of this utility because it does nothing beneficial for Skyrim players aside from causing headaches.
**UPDATE**
I messed with this a little more. I understand what it's supposed to do now - effectively, it allows the creation of "Profiles" so multiple users can play the same Skyrim install and keep a group of save files separated. All it's supposed to do is create a profile and a subfolder, help organize save games per profile, then move any given profile's save games to the default Skyrim save game folder before boot.
I got it to work once - out of four attempts. The other three, the app flat-out refused to properly move files between directories before Skyrim boot or the files took so long to move, that only a few of them were accessible. This app doesn't work reliably or as intended and seems like a really good way to automate save file corruption.
Let's hope that the newly updated remastering has it built in.
But can you also make this work for the Skyrim SE? So I can try to be the Good, the Bad, and the super evil in the same time. (^^^)