Bak files to ess/skse

[fadeother]

Perhaps someone on this site can help me, i accidentally wrote over a save in Skyrim. I no longer have the autosaves either, but these are still in my folder as bak. files. Is there someway to convert these to ess so the game can read it? This way i could still recover my character

[HeyYou]

Can you just change the extension to ESS????

[fadeother]

15 minutes ago, HeyYou said:

Can you just change the extension to ESS????

Good suggestion, i tried that already but that caused my game to freeze when attempting to access the load screen

[HeyYou]

Hhhhmmm.... There *should* be documentation somewhere on what the .bak files are good for..... Maybe on silverlock.org??

[fadeother]

8 minutes ago, HeyYou said:

Hhhhmmm.... There *should* be documentation somewhere on what the .bak files are good for..... Maybe on silverlock.org??

I can find very little on it tbh. I think the issue is that the script extender saves arent backed up, which would break the mods baked into the saves. Seems ive lost this character, thanks for trying to help anyway.

[HeyYou]

don't have an earlier save?

[fadeother]

2 hours ago, HeyYou said:

don't have an earlier save?

I did, but was many hours back so i basically have to rebuild the character

[HeyYou]

Ouch..... I save a LOT, and rarely clear out my saves folder...... For a long-running game, there can be a couple hundred. Drive space is cheap.

[AndalayBay]

Only a couple hundred?! I'm up to save #4926 on my long running game. I have a backup folder that I move my saves to so there are only 300 or so in the saved game folder.

[HeyYou]

1 hour ago, AndalayBay said:

Only a couple hundred?! I'm up to save #4926 on my long running game. I have a backup folder that I move my saves to so there are only 300 or so in the saved game folder.

I am not quite that OCD.