Just Screwed Myself Royally.

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Skulli

Is that fur coming out of your ears?
I had a phone call and a kitchen emergency all at the same time so I hurried and saved the game I was on, my new warrior build.

In my rush, I later realized I had overwritten my Main character by mistake, saved right over her last and only save. I used recovery software but the file was no longer usable. The version of that character I THOUGHT I had saved on a flashdrive, turned out to have been deleted and replaced with my son's court documents.

Over 120 hours down the PC toilet.....

:sadface:
 

Gandalf The Boss

Pupil of Nienna. Defender of Middle Earth
Ouch.. This just gave me cancer. :eek:
I am so sorry for your loss :sadface:
 
YOUR ADVENTURE BEGINS AGAIN YOUNG DOVAHKIIN

But yeah those saves can get really confusing sometimes.

I am sorry for your loss.
 

Skulli

Is that fur coming out of your ears?
Oh well, this remaining warrior was the one I planned to run thru Dawnguard next week anyway...but DAMMIT!
 

Urzek

Active Member
My heart now drowns in sorrow.
 

Skulli

Is that fur coming out of your ears?
I just realized a bit of small irony here...

When I left Warcraft for good to play Skyrim a couple months ago, after 7 years, I left behind 10 characters I'd spent years on.

I had earlier abandoned another long lived character on Asheron's call. The one I just lost here makes 12 gone for good.

Kinda funny, don'tcha think, the character I have left is based on the 13th Warrior Nord, a Beowulf archetype.

And it's my 13th and final character, the one that closest resembles who I was in real life when I fought in the old SCA in a Viking clan.

Hmmm....
 

Travitor

New Member
I remembered when I deleted my pokemon red...
lmao
 

Vinven

Member
Perhaps try to recover the save folder to a previous version? Back it up first to somewhere else, but google how to revert a folder to a previous version. Also try some other types of recovery software such as Recuva.
 

Spiral Power!

Abenddrachen
This is why I always create a new save file when I save, and then mass delete old saves after a couple of weeks of playing ^~^
 

Twiffle

Well-Known Member
Think yourself lucky, , just goiong to play my xbox and harde drive been playing up a little and has finally packed in completeley, had to swap for an older one and of course i have no saves so got to even watch from the begining and start all over again, , , AAAaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr
 

Uskyldig

Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die
As annoying as it is, look towards the positive :eek: opportunity to start again, reinvent the lost character?
 

Twiffle

Well-Known Member
As annoying as it is, look towards the positive :eek: opportunity to start again, reinvent the lost character?

true, , but it is annoying as well as expensive too, , , just need a new direction now, , and money to buy a new hard drive,
 

Gehenna

Dazed & Confused
I know saying this doesn't help after the fact, but I keep extra folders devoted to certain characters within the save folder itself and stash each character's saves in that folder when I want to play with a new one. You could also possibly go into the save folder and rename the file extension if you don't want the game to read or overwrite it.

Like I said, I know it's not helpful now, but hopefully useful in the future for a PC version of the game. I don't know how consoles manage saves, or if they can be removed/stored.
 

Skulli

Is that fur coming out of your ears?
A lesson learned. I now have my fave characters saved on a thumb drive as well as in my personal Documents folder.
 

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