If you don't save OVER your previous saves, they'll still be there.

Thank you..

I have currently 5 different characters at different levels from level 1 to level 46. I just take care when I save. You can always copy your game saves into another folder for safekeeping!

But also understand - you cannot "carry over" ( as one player wanted / asked ) his current game into his new game. No, ( just in case ) you start over and that new character is at Base Line Level and such.

Really helpful thank you

what i do is i open console up and type "savegame [characters name]" and press enter, it saves the game using the characters name instead of location so my saves are sorted by the character not where they was when saved since i got annoyed by having 3 characters all saved from Whiterun only difference was the save number next to them and i didn't want to have to read the character information under the screenshot of it on the right so i use this to save by character name instead

i did this and my old character lvl 40, leader of 3 guild and nightinggale is now lost :( does anyone of you guys know how i can get it back?