Oblivion saves gone!

Turtles · 23 Jul 2008 at 14:31

Went to play Oblivion for the first time in months and my saved games have all disappeared! I have no idea what has happened to them, the only thing I've done with Oblivion in months is move the shortcut from my desktop to a folder in my documents? I've looked in Program Files>BethesdaSoftworks>Oblivion> everywhere in there but I can't find any saves?

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place :confused:

But it's well annoying as I don't want to start all over again with my character. I don't suppose anyone has a clue whats happened or if someone can give me an example of what the saved games are called so I can search through the hard drive?

I've got the GotY edition if it makes any difference....

Darkwave · 23 Jul 2008 at 14:33

They should be in My Documents somewhere IIRC.

Turtles · 23 Jul 2008 at 14:35

Yeah, I've looked in My Documents > My Games > Oblivion. Not there

goujon945 · 23 Jul 2008 at 14:39

This happened to me a while back, still haven't found them! I hope i do though or thats 40+ hours wasted

Darkwave · 23 Jul 2008 at 15:42

Turtles said:
Yeah, I've looked in My Documents > My Games > Oblivion. Not there

Yeah it's definitely \My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves\.

Sorry mate but it looks like they're gone.

bayo000 · 23 Jul 2008 at 16:00

goujon945 said:
This happened to me a while back, still haven't found them! I hope i do though or thats 40+ hours wasted

no time spent in oblivion is wasted

sry to hear that they just disapeared

EffBee · 23 Jul 2008 at 16:30

three things ...

1) Oblivion save files are *.ess files - do a complete search of all your hard drives, all directories, all backup cds/dvds to see if you can locate them.

Are you playing the same account now as when you made the saves - the save directory will be in the "My Documents" for the account you were using at the time of the save.

2) I have been caught out by an oblivion bug where it says it has saved the file when in fact the save failed. This was related in my case to running out disk space. NO ERROR MESSAGE WAS GIVEN! Oblivion was coded by PC illiterate morons without the slightest interest in PC conventions.

3) I hope this helps - let me know if it does. If not I feel your pain - I really do

Turtles · 23 Jul 2008 at 19:38

EffBee said:
1) Oblivion save files are *.ess files - do a complete search of all your hard drives, all directories, all backup cds/dvds to see if you can locate them.

Found them and put them back

Woohoo!

Monkeynut · 23 Jul 2008 at 20:02

Since I have Oblivion and just in case, where did you find them?

Turtles · 23 Jul 2008 at 21:52

Heh, they were exactly where they should have been. My Documents > My Games > Oblivion > Saves. The problem was I had moved the My Games folder into another folder in my documents when I was tidying things up. It didn't like that