Saves dissapeared

Post » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:05 pm

Hi, i was playing Skyrim today and my brother came and wanted to play, so I quick saved 3 times and then I left to let my brother play, when I came back my saves where gone and like 7 saves before those 3, now I want to ask if theres a way to fix this and is there a way to get my f*cking saves back?
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Zach Hunter
 
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Post » Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:15 am

Autosaves and quicksaves are one-time use. They are overwritten with the next autosave/quicksave. Manually saving and overwriting a save is better for many reasons, a big one being that they are not overwriting the same file over and over again which can lead to corruption.

The same response I always provide (for the most part):

I keep all my saves and manually save about every 5 minutes for backup reasons, wanting to go back, and so forth. Whenever I hit around 105 or so saves, I archive all but the most recent 5 and put them into a 7z archive with maximum compression since the 7z format is both open and gives generally the best compression ratios. I keep all these archives in a separate directory and number them so I know which saves they have.
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