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3. The UI explained

SkyrimCharacterHelper's main window is divided into four areas: From top to bottom, there are two Character panels, followed by the Display area and the Control area. The top character panel represents Skyrim's savegame folder, the lower one the backup savegame folder. SkyrimCharacterHelper is designed to copy or move files from Skyrim's savegame folder to the backup savegame folder and vice versa.

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3.1 Display area

This area contains two progress bars for showing the progress on the current file and on the total action. Below, a message textfield shows what SkyrimCharacterHelper has to tell.

Display area

3.2 Control area

Here you can setup SkyrimCharacterHelper's behaviour. This ranges from settings influencing whether files are reather moved than copied to settings triggering the automatic generation of regular savegames from quicksave- and autosave-files.

Control area

3.2.1 Selectable settings

File mode combobox File mode. SkyrimCharacterHelper can operate in two different file modes: If you select Copy, savegame files are copied to the destination directory. If Move is selected, the source savegame is deleted after copying it to the destination directory. Please note, that this setting DOES NOT influence the custom launch of Skyrim for a dedicated character: In this case, files are always moved!



Image mode combobox Image mode. Allows you to toggle displaying the savegames' screenshot thumbnails. When deactivating the image display, the space previously occupied by the images is then used by the savegame tables. Even with a disabled image display, copying the thumbnails to the system clipboard is supported.



Init mode combobox Init mode. If set to Scan Skyrim only, SkyrimCharacterHelper scans just Skyrim's savegame folder on start, otherwise it also scans the backup savegame folder (if defined). Depending on the amount of savegames in the backup folder, this can reduce SkyrimCharacterHelper's startup time significantly. If the backup folder was not scanned on start, some functions requiring this folder will remain unavailable until a scan of the backup folder was performed.



Launch mode combobox Launch mode. If set to Minimized, SkyrimCharacterHelper hides its window when starting Skyrim. After Skyrim has terminated, the window is shown again.



Confirm deleting combobox Confirm deleting. If set to Yes, SkyrimCharacterHelper checks for possible deletes of savegames before performing any operation and brings up a confirmation request in these cases.



Confirm overwriting combobox Confirm overwriting. If set to Yes, SkyrimCharacterHelper checks for possible overwritings of savegames before performing any operation and brings up a confirmation request in these cases.



Store autosaves combobox Store autosaves. If set to Yes, SkyrimCharacterHelper monitors Skyrim for creating autosave-files. Whenever that happens, a regular savegame is created from the autosave-file and an audible notification is given.



Store quicksaves combobox Store quicksaves. If set to Yes, SkyrimCharacterHelper monitors Skyrim for creating quicksave-files. Whenever that happens, a regular savegame is created from the quicksave-file and an audible notification is given.


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