Save games deleted after verify install

[Sheamus O'Connor]

Was trying to do the old Umbra cheese by bringing her back to the imperial city to see if the guards could kill her. Seems they can't; her hp doesn't drop after a certain point so I tried to re-load a save. Didn't allow me to click on previous saves be they manual or quick. Fine, alright lets try verifying game see if something failed to download or corrupted. Verified all files loaded the game and the setup appeared again, which I thought was odd. I notice load and continue are grey-ed out; hmmm wtf? Check the documents folder for saved games and low and behold empty. Can't believe it. Thought maybe it was a steam cloud issue, nope have that turned off. Well pretty peeved I lost two hours.

-TLDR;
Don't verify game files they deleted all of my saves BEWARE!

[Quavve]

My game crashes says fatal error and deletes all of my save data post crash

[!NK]

Well, I tried guards too (didn't work), but... There's a broken column in her room where she's guaranteed not to get you. And I'm playing an archer. I'm level 3 right now because I'm not in a hurry, and I was just curious if it was even possible to kill her at this level. And as it turns out, yes, you can get her health down to 0, but... She's immortal. Just f*cking immortal.
As far as I understand, they made it so that without taking the quest from Clavicus, you just can't kill her at all. And Clavicus only gives the quest at who knows what level, because I don't remember anymore.
I ran out of arrows (200+) in this attempt, finished her off with spells that had a bonus due to the character's race. But it's disappointing. I spent about 30-40 minutes on this (with the run to the guard), and it's not even about the sword or armor, it was just a tradition to kill Umbra right at the start of the game. I didn't even know that she was a quest character, and that you can talk to her when I played in 2006 for the first time :) I just killed her by accident :))) And it was really fun and cool, because as a reward for a mega-hard fight (for first time it really was) at this level you get a decent reward, even if I don't need it now. Why this option was removed, I don't understand. Those who wanted to complete the quest as expected, could still do it if they wanted.
By the way, the game also crashed, but the saves remained intact. Thanks for the warning.
Bethesda, give me the opportunity to kill Umbra without a quest back!

[Swaggaccino]

I just tried the Umbra cheese and yeah, the guards don't attack her anymore. They attack you though. WTF? They focused on patching the WRONG glitches. And on top of that, we have UE5 glitches to worry about. Dupe glitch also doesn't work.