How do I get my saves back after using a character manager in skyrim
I started using character manager v2 today only to find out that it didn't work and deleted all my characters instead. Is there a way to get my characters back?
Best Answer
I assume you're talking about this program Skyrim Character Manager V2 by SlipperyFish.
From the discussion this seems to be an abandoned utility with a bunch of problems, not something that should be used.
This (copied verbatim from the discussion) should allow you to uninstall it. All credits to sydlet:
Okay. For everyone who can't get rid of this mod and want your saves back to normal:
- Go to Documents > My Games > Skyrim.
- Should see a file called 'Skyrim.ini" (without quotes)
- Open the file (enable admin rights if it won't let you edit the file) and look for a line called "SLocalSavePath=Saves\". If you have this mod installed, it'll say, for example, "SLocalSavePath=Saves\Bob\" or something to that effect.
- Get rid of the character's name, changing it back to "SLocalSavePath=Saves\".
- Save the file and open the folder named Saves. You should have a bunch of folders inside with each of your characters' names.
- Open the folder, pick a character, move or copy/paste their saves back to the main folder.
- Start the game and try to load a save. If you moved all your characters' saves back over, you should see all of them, from every character instead of just the one.
Besides that the description says it creates a backup on start up, I can't seem to find where it puts that in the description, you could look around your My Documents/My Games/Skyrim folder, that would be a sensible place to put it.
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