well thats not really true. if you copy your saved game folder and your character folder, and your override folder, you wont loose your saved games.
if you have custom portraits you will need to backup that folder too.
the only other folder you might want to save is Mpsave, if you have one. it only gets created if you start a multiplayer game. but it holds multiplayer saves.
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