Why are there only 50mb of Steam Cloud storage for Skyrim saves. Skyrim saves can get large and can sometimes reach 10mb per save?

Second I heard they turned that on for Skyrim....I turned it off....why would they take my saves off my HDD??

This would be a question for the Steam forum....

Disable it asap. It will mess up your game eventually, it happened to me in Torchlight a numerous amount of times. It's garbage basically.

lol Steam cloud 50Mb limit whot a joke
my current play through Save folder size is 749mb with 100 save files in it. Average file size just under 10mb
I do a save before entering most places just incase i find a killer bug vanilla or MOD and have to reload to fix

Edit: just noticed the sync would only fit my autosaves + quicksave without backups

Because they're not. Steam Cloud uploads a copy of your saves to the cloud, so you can sync settings, saves, etc. across multiple computers or re-installs of the game. Your saves are still present on your HDD; otherwise, could you imagine the lag if you had to wait for data to be uploaded/downloaded every time you tried to save or load your game?

@ the OP - probably has something to do with the fact that Skyrim's sold several million copies on PC, most likely (we don't know actual sales figures), and on top of that there's 40 million Steam users all trying to use Steam Cloud for storage not just for Skyrim, but all the many other games that support that feature. They had to draw a line on storage somewhere, or risk crippling the service.

Anyway. Normally I quite like Steam Cloud--it made getting things up and running after I got a new HDD much, much easier, for instance. But in Skyrim's case, if only because of the size of the saves (so they take forever to upload) and because of the question of what happens in cases where you might be playing mod roulette, I'd advise disabling it for Skyrim only.