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Why is my Skyrim game not saving?

Check the hard drive that the game is installed to and ensure you have enough remaining space and remove any old saves you do not need. If you have enough space to save your game, check your antivirus and firewall to see if it is blocking any files from being created for Skyrim.
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Why is my Xbox Skyrim not saving?

If you are unable to create new saves or cannot see existing saves on Xbox, you may have reached the saved data storage limit. After one or two messages that the save/load operation failed, the warning messages may stop appearing.
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Why can't I save my game in Skyrim PS4?

This usually occurs when the hard drive on your PlayStation 4 does not have sufficient storage space to save the game data. Solutions for this issue are outlined below: Please note that there is a limit of 1gb for saved data on PS4. Once that limit is reached you must remove saved data in order to have space again.
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Where did my Skyrim save go?

On PC, both the save files for Skyrim and the Skyrim Special Edition are located in the My Games folder in your Documents. To transfer your save files, enter the saves folder, and copy all the save files you wish to transfer (they should be listed by (Save # - Character Name, Location).
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Will I lose my saves if I uninstall Skyrim?

Will I lose my save data if I have to reinstall The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim or Steam? No. Skyrim is supported by the Steam Cloud that ensures save game data is stored by Steam itself. This feature allows players to load and play their saved games on different computers.
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Why does Skyrim crash on save?

Autosaves and quicksaves in Bethesda games are notoriously unstable. These saves store information in a less stable way than proper saves do, resulting in crashing if the quicksave or autosave in question is large.
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Is it bad to quicksave Skyrim?

Skyrim's quick saves let the player save the game on the fly, allowing them to ensure that they don't lose any progress. However, where and when the player puts a quick save into place is extremely important. One player found this out the hard way when they quick saved the game in a very poor place.
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How do I save and quit Skyrim?

To save and exit press f6 that will bring up a messagebox allowing you to either cancel, exit to main menu or quit the game. Also the exit save is named Exit Save and is not under your character in the load menu, you have to click Show All Saves to access it.
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How do I quick save Skyrim on console?

From SSE's console (accessed with the tilde key, ~) you can type "qqq" and press Enter and the game will instantly shut down. To quicksave a game you can hit the F5 key.
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How do I make Skyrim autosave?

Skyrim creates auto saves that are usable from the load menu by default at the following times:
  1. When entering certain areas (usually quest related)
  2. When the character menu (inventory/map/magic/skills) or the pause menu is opened after a set amount of time has passed, configurable in settings.
  3. On waiting.
  4. On sleeping.
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Does Skyrim have auto save?

How often does Skyrim auto save? Auto save occurs if you enter or leave a building. Make a manual save, enter leave one building 3 times or 3 bulidings will make 6 autosaves but only last 3 show up, plus your manual save.
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What is quick save in Skyrim?

They allow a game to be saved and loaded quickly if things don't go as they were planned. Note that there is only one QuickSave. Every time the F5 key is pressed, the previous QuickSave is overwritten and lost. There is no way to recover this save once overwritten.
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How do I uncorrupt a Skyrim save file?

Force quit Skyrim. Hard reset Xbox. Then load one of your saves from before you installed the mod. After wards you'll most likely still get the corrupted save messge however you can actually bypass this by constantly reloading a save before you've installed the mods you replaced.
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How do I fix Skyrim on Xbox?

Restart the Game
  1. Press the [Xbox] button on your controller to return to the Home screen.
  2. Press the [Menu] button on your controller select quit and press [A] to close Skyrim.
  3. Select The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition from the home screen and press [A] to restart.
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Can Skyrim saves get corrupted?

Saves in Skyrim can become corrupted over time due to a variety of reasons such as: conflicts with mods. issues with the game's programming. problems with the player's computer or storage device.
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How long is Skyrim?

When focusing on the main objectives, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is about 34 Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 232 Hours to obtain 100% completion.
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How often should I save Skyrim?

Once every ten or twenty hours of game play, go into the Documents folder, find the Skyrims Save folder, and copy it to a thumb drive as a back-up. That should keep your saves clean and provide you with a failsafe in the event of a possible catastrophic hardware failure.
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What is the difference between saving and Quicksaving Skyrim?

Quicksaves are made on demand, and only 1 backup copy is kept. Regular saves are made on demand, and remain until you delete or overwrite them. Considering how many quest-breaking bugs there still are, you will likely regret not making a regular save every few hours.
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What should you avoid in Skyrim?

Things Not to Do in Skyrim
  • Don't Spread Your Skills Too Thin.
  • Never Steal From a Chicken.
  • Don't Try to Murder Essential NPCs.
  • Resist the Urge to Pick Up Literally Everything.
  • Don't Sell Enchanted Items.
  • Don't Fight With the Guards.
  • Don't Store Items in Places You Don't Own.
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What happens if you steal too much in Skyrim?

Whenever you steal an item, regardless of whether anyone sees you or even if its owner is dead, that item will be flagged as stolen. You won't be able to sell it to normal shop owners and if you get arrested, all of your stolen inventory will be confiscated by the fuzz (even if you pay off your bounty).
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What is a clean save in Skyrim?

There are two types of 'clean saves'. One is actually a vanilla save, the other is a bad modding practice in an attempt to re-initialize a badly scripted mod or an updated mod that doesn't use version control to initialize its scripting when a user updates.
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Can you recover Skyrim saves?

Right-click the folder where the saves were, click Properties, then look in the Previous Versions tab. You might be able to open a previous version of the folder and recover the files from inside it.
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How many autosaves does Skyrim keep?

Skyrim only ever keeps three autosaves, don't rely on them.
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