How do I get my saves back after using a character manager in skyrim

Solution 1:

I assume you're talking about this program Skyrim Character Manager V2 by SlipperyFish.

From the discussion this seems to be an abandoned utility with a bunch of problems, not something that should be used.

This (copied verbatim from the discussion) should allow you to uninstall it. All credits to sydlet:

Okay. For everyone who can't get rid of this mod and want your saves back to normal:

1. Go to Documents > My Games > Skyrim.
2. Should see a file called 'Skyrim.ini" (without quotes)
3. Open the file (enable admin rights if it won't let you edit the file) and look for a line called "SLocalSavePath=Saves\". If you have this mod installed, it'll say, for example, "SLocalSavePath=Saves\Bob\" or something to that effect.
4. Get rid of the character's name, changing it back to "SLocalSavePath=Saves\".
5. Save the file and open the folder named Saves. You should have a bunch of folders inside with each of your characters' names.
6. Open the folder, pick a character, move or copy/paste their saves back to the main folder.
7. Start the game and try to load a save. If you moved all your characters' saves back over, you should see all of them, from every character instead of just the one.

Besides that the description says it creates a backup on start up, I can't seem to find where it puts that in the description, you could look around your My Documents/My Games/Skyrim folder, that would be a sensible place to put it.