save script gone bad

[love this game 1993]

btw how do you know if a save script that skyrim uses to save your data goes bad

[nutluck]

If by go bad you mean old saves that use to work can stop working? then yes that can and does happen. The most famous case of it happening is with Gophers Let's Play of Stiv. He lost over 3 months of game play because all the saves in that time started crashing.

[Guest corespore]

The vast majority of save deaths are caused by a missing master file in the mods list or save-bloat. The missing master means you removed a mod that the scripts have saved and need to run the save. You have to re-install the missing mod to get it to work. Save bloat is caused by a mod that has bad scripting and usually once the mod is removed the scripts will keep running and cause your saves to become large they no longer work. You can check for save-bloat by looking at the size of the save files themselves. Goto (Users, user name here, Documents, MyGames, Skyrim, Saves) The average save file will be between 4 and 20 megs (4,000K 20,000K) along with a 8K SKSE file if you have that installed. Anything over 50megs means your save files has bloat meaning there is scripts from a mod constantly spamming your game. If there is bloat there are programs that can somewhat remove the bloat but from then on the save will never work correctly, at that point it is just best to delete the save and move on.