OK so the game just overwrote my main character. I am not happy, but it had like 5 or 6 saves too.

Can you not have more than one character?? THIS NEEDS A PATCH IF THATS THE CASE!

It's a bug on the PS3....... Happened to me too. I'm sorry for your loss.

Well WTF causes this bug, and what are they doing about it?

Not sure its a bug, or just the way the autosave saves when you get out of the cart at the beginning when you're a prisoner.

I have two characters, there's an easy way around it. Have a manual save file for your first character. Then, while on your first character, save again selecting the "create a new file" option. Thus having two save files for your main character. Then, when you start your second, it'll save over the second save file you created for your main charter, leaving the first file untouched. Bam, a save file for each character.

Wish I knew that 10mins ago.

Were none of the 4 autosave files for your first character left? My wife tried the game a few weeks ago and didn't like it (she stinks at aiming with the anolog sticks.) The new character she made erased my main characters save file, but I was able to get it back because 3 of the autosave files were still in the load list. (Before I knew to create a second file.) Did you check the load list for any old autosaves? or were they all bye bye by the time ya figured it out.

THey all went down. Its cool though