I recently restored my PC, which may or may not be related, but whenever I save now, the save loads to the exact same location in the dungeon under cloakwood. Pretty annoying since I was already in Baldur's Gate when I died. I've tried all forms of saving, still brings me to same place. I'm hoping someone has some idea even though this is admittedly really strange. Thanks in advance.

Your game is saving in a different location to where it is looking for them.
What Operating System?
Where did you install the game?

If you save a game & call it XXXXXXX does it show up in the save folder of your Baldur's Gate directory?

When I look in appropriate save folder, the pictures of the saves lead me to believe it is saving to the correct folder. I managed to get it to save "correctly" by unchecking all the read-only stuff in the folder, however, what I didn't know before is that these previous saves were actually where they were supposed to be in chapter, people killed/talked to, triggers like the drawbridge at wyrm's crossing, fog of war, and other miscellaneous things like chests being looted BUT I quickly noticed that even though NPC's were talked to (even moved to post-quest offer locations) their quests and journal entries weren't actually triggered *SPOILER*(including the main plotline with Scar)*SPOILER*, and items looted weren't actually in inventory even though npcs were dead and chests were emptied. I guess the only possibility in my not having to start a new game, and saving myself many hours, would be figuring out console commands for certain triggers like quest completion. I haven't been able to find any such commands on google, only the typical give item and teleport to area stuff. Any help would be very appreciated.