Homebrew Question Quicker way to delete Saves?

[Hephaestus]

My internal memory on the switch is full of tiny savegames.
Deleting each one by hand takes a very long time.
Is there a way to delete them more quickly?

Is there a homebrew program that lets you go through a list of your saves and mark those you wish to delete all in one go?

 

[Rasa39]

Not as I know, how many saves do you actually want to keep? If it's not many you could backup your saves with Edizon, then delete all the saves from the internal storage and restore the ones from the Edizon folder after you're done (or whatever save backup hb you wanna use).

You can access internal storage with nxmtp and plugging into your pc. Be careful though when deleting files directly from the system partitions. If you try that way and break something though it's on you. Safest way is the slowest way, using homebrew.

Just depends which you're more comfortable with.

 

[Hephaestus]

@Rasa39 Thats brilliant!
There really arent many saves i wanna keep, backing them up and deleting all else would be easiest.

but how do i delete all saves at once?

 

[Rasa39]

@Rasa39 Thats brilliant!
There really arent many saves i wanna keep, backing them up and deleting all else would be easiest.

but how do i delete all saves at once?

There's a folder on the user partition names "saves", the files inside are encrypted but due to the variance is size and date modified, I assume they are the game saves. I wouldn't touch the saves in the System partition, but again even deleting them from the user partition is done at your own risk. I've not done it before so I don't know if it will work, it just seems like it will. You could always make a nand backup to be extra safe.

Use the homebrew nxmtp, this lets you plug your switch into a pc and access all three partitions (includes SD card). Then just select all the files inside the saves folder and delete them, which again, you do at your own risk.

Spoiler: Example of my "User" save folder