Skyrim doesn't recognize my saves

[Autumn.dk]

Hi

Recently Skyrim doesn't recognize my saved games, which is pretty annoying. I've looked in the folder where the saved games are located:
D:\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves

and I can see that my most recent game is present "Save 6". However in the game I can only see Save 1-3. Even if I create a new saved game, the games doen't recognize it.

Have anyone else expericend this and it are any solution? I really would like to continue my games and not start all over from scratch?

[cheshirm]

is that a typo? games are saved by default in
C:\.......\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves

[Autumn.dk]

Nope, it's not a typo, I moved my documents default location to D. I tried to copy the My Games folder to the C-drive, but it still doesn't recognize them.

[cheshirm]

just as a test while in game, press the "`" key to get into the console then type
save whereisthissavestored
or any unique name you want. then try to find where that file is C:...\Saves or D:...\Saves or somewhere else. since you are not using the default location, the program is reading the Skyrim.ini file and storing files wherever SLocalSavePath is set to.

[Autumn.dk]

it does save in the d-folder, I've tried with 2 different names. However, when restarting the game after I saved, the saved game still doesn't show up in the Load menu.

[pedantic_roc]

I have also moved/copied my My Documents but to my E: drive - I renamed it My D0cuments.
Word, Excel etc. has no problems locating the new My D0cuments.

The game, afaik, only knows the path to the c: drive so you really need your My Documents residing on the C: drive for everything to work as expected.
The real path is something like:
C:\Users\#User#\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves - here you can add or backup your save games to and from without a hitch.

[Autumn.dk]

I tried to move the saved games to the C\users\....\Saves but the game still doesn't recognize them. Fairly frustrating, even though I haven't spent that many hours on the game.

[pedantic_roc]

Did you change the 'Location' of your My Documents using the properties tab? When I did that, initially, most everything got jiggered up - which is why I resolved to leave it (well, system restored) and then manually copied the entire folder over and renamed it. That worked fine.

[Factualious]

Have you checked the permissions on the save files and parent directories?

[Autumn.dk]

Yup, everybody and the kitchen sink got full access.

The strange thing is that the game creates the saves (in prompt) but dosn't see them afterwards.

I resorted to reinstalling and then I'll see if I can get the saves back but restoring the backup of the folder.

I'll update later.

[EDIT]
The reinstall of game didn't help. I saw something new though. Once the game was reinstalled I started it, but once pressing Play (after the load screen), the game just didn't start.

[Autumn.dk]

So, I reinstalled steam - just to see if a fresh install steam works.

I'll update later (just needs to download the game again).

[pedantic_roc]

Originally posted by Autumn.dk:

I'll update later (just needs to download the game again).

Took me about 11 hours to do that with the update included - hope you've got a better ISP than I had back then. Good luck sorting this out. :-)

[Zefram Cochrane]

You could try loading the save via the console:

load mysavegamename