However, I have accumulated a large number of saved games for Skyrim over the months I've played it previously - close to a thousand - and I decided to do a little bit of spring-cleaning. After exiting Steam, I manually moved most of my older saved games out of my Saves folder.
When I next loaded up Skyrim, all my remaining saves now have images of static as their screenshot images, and when I try to load one the game crashes with no error message. I've tried moving the old saves back into the folder, but the problem persists.
Can anyone provide a solution - hopefully one that doesn't require starting from scratch?
EDIT: Nevermind, looks like I just had a couple of corrupt saves - I managed to load from a prior save and things seem to be working okay now.