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I want to tidy up after playing a few scearios by deleting old saves but there dosnt seem to be a way to do this.

Of course I have looked in the save games folder but this seems to be empty and yet when the game opens it shows me to have at least eight saved files
 

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Check your virtual store folder. If you have Windows 7 it will be located here (another OS somewhere similar):

C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis III\save games

You may need to turn 'view hidden files and folders' on to find the location.
 

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You may need to turn 'view hidden files and folders' on to find the location.
Alternatively you should be able to use a "show compatibility files" button from the save games folder in the game folder. (I haven't seen this myself since I always turn off UAC when I install Win 7.)
 

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Alternatively you should be able to use a "show compatibility files" button from the save games folder in the game folder. (I haven't seen this myself since I always turn off UAC when I install Win 7.)

You can. I was unaware of this and just tested it. (I always have UAC on). Much quicker than digging into the Virtual Store folder. Thanks for the tip.
 

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This is something they should fix in EU IV. An option to delete save games from within the game. It's not a problem, but it can be a bit cumbersome and I haven't seen any other game where I can't delete saves from within the game.
 

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This is something they should fix in EU IV. An option to delete save games from within the game. It's not a problem, but it can be a bit cumbersome and I haven't seen any other game where I can't delete saves from within the game.

Thankfully we have a very active forum to fix this problem. Few 5 year old games have such an active backing.
 

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This is something they should fix in EU IV. An option to delete save games from within the game. It's not a problem, but it can be a bit cumbersome and I haven't seen any other game where I can't delete saves from within the game.
It can be done in CK2 so I'd be fairly sure it will be in EU4 also.
 

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That's the price you pay for them being uncompressed plaintext and easy to modify.
Not really. Compressed plaintext is equally easy to modify. In fact I keep my savegames compressed and EU doesn't even know about it.
There are many ways to achieve this, but under Windows probably the easiest is to use NTFS compression on the folder with saves.