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sup, i'm not big into modding, so i've been wondering if i could save my FONV state with all the mods used to some kind of particularly small file or folder because i need to cut down on gaming and storage space on my computer and all of this is taking up by far the most space. idk when i'm gonna fire up FONV again next, who knows, maybe only in 10 years and the data should hopefully stay secure for that long in the cloud. speaking of safe, i currently have 5 save states of 16.5 MB each, so any solution in that rough area would be greatly appreciated especially if it more or less all installed itself again. just writing down all mod and extension names on a piece of paper and then doing it all by hand again just means i'm probably never gonna go through all this again and will at best just play unmodded if at all. in short, i need to stop playing and free up storage. would be great if i could just save my entire FONV game with everything attached to a 100-200 MB folder/file. thanks so much in advance, cheers

So I play skyrim using mods of course and usually install more mods as i go along my world. On my new character, i have already reached level 30 and now realize that the game takes longer than usual to save the game and loading screen times. The game now takes 30 seconds to load and around 25 - 30 seconds to save the game (this is not the end of the world, but i wish to fix it). I checked the save file size and it says the file size is 85,000 KB (rounded). That is a lot imo and my save files never used to be this high. I used to use a mod called 'Populated skyrim Civil War' and it made the game have big battles against the two factions. Now at first when i got this mod i did not care about file size, cause this in the very beginning of the play through. The mod resulted in leaving a s*** ton of dead bodies around Skyrim, but i already disabled this mod way before my save file size has reached 85 MB. Other than that, i dont know what would be causing it to be so big. I went back to the game and started to try to clean up some things. I stopped tracking all of my quests, i unfavorited a lot of things i was not using (I am a mage as this character and had many spells favorited), I had around 2000 arrows on my character, so i dropped them and disabled them through the console. Other than those small things, i dont really know what to do to reduce the save file size. I have tried using programs such as, "SKYRIM save cleaner" but nothing much changed. Is there anyway I can reduce the save file significantly? Anyway to remove all of the things left on the ground? (Bodies, weapons, etc.) My Load Order: (0) Skyrim.esm (1) Update.esm (2) Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp (3) Dawnguard.esm (4) Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp (5) HearthFires.esm (6) Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp (7) Dragonborn.esm ( :cool: Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp (9) ApachiiHair.esm (10) ImmersiveBountyHunting_Bandits.esm (11) JSwords.esm (12) SkyMoMod.esm (13) Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main.esm (14) breezehomelightfix.esp (15) killthemgenerals.esp (16) Chesko_Frostfall.esp (17) Better Dynamic Snow.esp (18) Immersive Sounds - Aural Assortment.esp (19) Auto Unequip Ammo.esp (20) Birdsofskyrim.esp (21) Chesko_WearableLantern.esp (22) Hunterborn.esp (23) Hunterborn_Dawnguard-Patch.esp (24) Immersive Battles.esp (25) Immersive Brigands.esp (26) Immersive Dawnguard.esp (27) Immersive Factions.esp (28) Immersive Mercenaries.esp (29) Immersive Patrols.esp (30) Immersive Travelers.esp (31) Immersive Werewolves.esp (32) ImmersiveBountyHunting.esp (33) Populated Forts Towers Places.esp (34) Populated Lands Roads Paths.esp (35) skyBirds - Airborne Perching Birds.esp (36) Skyrim Immersive Creatures.esp (37) Skyrim Immersive Creatures - DLC2.esp (38) SkyUI.esp (39) ezio's armor.esp (40) Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp (41) Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp (42) Immersive Weapons.esp (43) LFArmors.esp (44) Lore Weapon Expansion.esp (45) throwing_weapons_redux.esp (46) Unique Uniques.esp (47) zz_GDRAHoods.esp (48) Dr_Bandolier.esp (49) AesirArmor.esp (50) BetterDarkBrotherhood.esp (51) hunting in skyrim.esp (52) quest_pitfighter.esp (53) quest_pitfighter_dlc01.esp (54) the void walker.esp (55) Undeath.esp (56) armored-horses.esp (57) No Empty Tag on Containers.esp (58) tavesolitude.esp (59) whiteruninenhanced.esp (60) Populated Cities 2.esp (61) sos - the wilds.esp (62) sos - civilization.esp (63) EnhancedLightsandFX.esp (64) RealisticNeedsandDiseases.esp (65) RND_Dawnguard-Patch.esp (66) RND_HearthFires-Patch.esp (67) RND_Dragonborn-Patch.esp (68) Hunterborn_RND-Patch.esp (69) Random Vampire Attacks in Towns Disabled.esp (70) bearmusicianeng.esp (71) the dance of death.esp (72) private_nokillblur_test.esp (73) dD-No Spinning Death Animation.esp (74) No NPC Greetings.esp (75) AmazingFollowerTweaks.esp (76) Purewaters.esp (77) WATER.esp (78) WATER Plants.esp (79) WATER DG.esp (80) WATER DB.esp (81) killablechildren.esp (82) Omegared99-GalleryOfArmor.esp (83) Immersive Sounds - Footsteps.esp (84) RND_AnimalLoot.esp (85) The Vassal Skyrim.esp (86) ImperialStormcloakRangerSet.esp (87) Real Roads.esp (88) JKs Whiterun.esp (89) Farm Animals.esp (90) Animated Enchantments.esp (91) Chesko_LoreBasedLoadingScreens.esp (92) 360WalkandRunPlus-RunBackwardSpeedAdjust.esp (93) Long lost smelters by Hyralux.esp (94) BFSEffects.esp (95) ImmersiveSpells.esp (96) winterhold_improvements.esp (97) Apocalypse - The Spell Package.esp (98) Phenderix's Magic Evolved.esp (99) MidasSkyrim.esp (100) dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp (101) dD-DG-DB-Immersive Creatures EBT Patch.esp (102) dD-Larger Splatter Size.esp (103) posesivecorpses.esp Thanks.