Too many? How many save files do you have? I'm on Xbox and I'm curious if this is an insane amount of save files or on par with other people. I keep 2 separate saves for each character I have and have a hard time deleting old characters who I really like. I have a dozen different characters, one of these saves is the Helgen hard save.

Funny thing is that I have a character for every race except Imperial, I've tried making a typical sword n board legionnaire but got bored with them quick.

In case anyone's wondering, I have 7600 saves and counting

I save around 5 times every hour then delete all but 1 before quitting the game.

Two.

Did you do the same thing back on Xbox?

I want to trim some of the fat away from my saves but my problem is that it's such a time consuming PITA to get a character from Helgen to where I'm ready to RP them with proper equipment and such. I probably wouldn't have so many saves if I were on PC.

[censored] i have about 495 save files for one character on Xbox lol.

I think it's safe to keep about 5 per character cause ya never know what bugs are gonna [censored] with you later.

Around 2,000 save files for Xbox...

M'aiq has maybe around 500 save files for PC.

Yea I've learned long ago in Oblivion that if you don't have at least 2 per character then you're gonna regret it at some point in your playthrough.

2,000 save files? Wow I feel much better about my 25 ha. How do you even manage them all or do you just save and keep it moving, never loading or overwriting old save files?

M'aiq saves and never overwrites. He will only reload if his current save is corrupt/bugged.

on xbox I would make a new save and delete the previous one after saving. I kept 1 at a time and the 3 auto saves.

my save counter is over 1000 but its reset once already...

I keep about 4 saves for each character. two current ones and two older ones.

Back when I played Skyrim, I saved before loading screens, quests, important events, etc. In a day I could have up to 30 saves. And the end of a session, I turn my character to face me, and save. From the XMB menu, I delete all saves except the last one and the prisoner save.

I see, I overwrite saves and try to keep them in order.

I'm guessing that means you only play 1 character at time then, I play whatever one I'm in the mood to play as. I also have disabled auto saves.

Reset? The list deleted itself? My heart sank slightly at the thought that this could happen to me

ha that's pretty much how I do it and I always face the screen in 3rd person when saving so I can see what character it is and judge what they're doing by the gear they got on.

I have 4704, saves. Many of which I've deleted. But at the end of the day i go through 80, 90. Saves and delete them.

It used to be in Fallout New Vegas that the game would run slower the more saves you had, so when Skyrim was brand new I was deleting a lot of my old saves from 11.11.11 and what not to avoid that same bug. I dont think its actually in Skyrim, but many of my old saves are now lost. Still, im reaching 500 saves in total right now, so that's still a lot of saves.

Thankfully I have a 2 TB harddrive, and have plenty of space for all of my Beth games, mods, and saves.

ha it sounds similar to the game I used to play with my phone on the toilet called "who don't I talk to anymore"

This was back when I used to get numbers all the time and had a lengthy contact list.

I usually save quite often when playing. I can easily have 20+ save files by the time im done with my session. After quitting ill delete all but my most recent 3.
Im on PS3 too.

I caught my self on several occasions having a lot more than 25 saves on the HDD (oddly, not much of a performance issue at that point is that is more of either low-leveled PCs and/or building HF houses with those saves). After the noticing, I delete it down to about 4 or 5 and try to be mindful of not going over 15 saves and for the low-mid leveled character saves, I transfer the files to a flash drive when they are at high levels (like level>50).

yeah, on this playthrough, my saves are at around # 755, I'm exp lvl 50, I don't use any autosave features, typically before entering a new cell, I tend to save. I keep a few saves, but delete a lot, I like to keep the early ones, then every week or so, I'll keep add a save to the 'keepers', so that if something happens I can always go back a week, and not lose too much progress. This way if I find a major problem with a mod, that hadn't shown up until recently, I can just look at the date I installed the mod, and then find the closest save before I added the mod.

Just finished a character, i had accumulated 52 saves (including the one quick, and the three autosaves) in about 60 hours.

I've always saved in a new slot. Never understood why I should scroll down and choose an old one, when it's easier to just click where I am and create a new. And considering how buggy this game can be, it has turned out to be a good practice.

When I was on PS3, I simply cleared out most of the old saves when the memory was full. Not sure how many slots are allowed, it might depend on the size of the save too (?), but well over 100 - maybe even 200? Don't remember.

Now I just delete the old saves every now and then, when I feel they are too many. I usually keep the last ten or so saves (I save OFTEN so those ten saves might very well cover a single quest), and for nostalgic reasons I like to keep the very first save after character creation as well. When I retire a character, I usually keep the first and the last save - before I started my last playthrough I wiped the saves folder clean though. I changed so many mods that those saves would most likely be broken anyway.

Edit: I don't know how easy this is on Xbox, but on PS3 I had created separate users for my different characters. Not the account itself, just a new profile. That way it was very easy to keep different saves apart, since I could never load (or overwrite) the wrong save. Plus, I got all the available save slots for each character!

(On PC, I use a savegame manager to keep the characters apart.)

I keep nine duplicate saves for every character, which probably isn't enough. I like to delete saves just to torture myself, same reason why I threw my coat over the bridge last month.

I only keep four saves on all games I play, or four saves per character. Just the way I play. So in Skyrim's case, I have eight saves.

Let's see if my arithmetic is good... hmm, hmm, hmmm, carry the 2 and I get 2 PCs you own? Wait I am off...

*sorry, just finished up Old World Blues this morning and seems applicable here *

I have 6 different "user" names and generally only have one character under each name. Though one of my usernames usually has about 6 or 7 characters than make it to Riverwood and that's it.... I really like playing around in CC. Like someone else I usually turn my character to face me and save. I save old characters on a USB drive.

During a regular play session I can have as many as 30 or 40 saves. I keep at least one "old" save per lvl, so a lvl 20 character can have 50 saves or more, at the end of a play session before I clean them up.

Actually it reset but the interesting thing to note is that the save does not overwrite any previous ones. For example if I had a save #10. Then the counter skips from 9 to 11. no overwrite. I was having computer issues (old computer) when this happened. It would freeze on me when entering a cell and corrupt the save/throw the counter off a lot. my 0 to 1000 counter has been legit so far. The reset so you know is somewhere above 40000 I think.