The dreaded "Load Failed" bug

I’m new here, but I get the feeling this will have been discussed at length already, so I won’t go into too much detail.

I’m just wondering: Are there any particular things that trigger this bug to happen? Similarly, are there any warning signs that your most recent save hasn’t worked (or any way to check?) I’m aware of deleting saves to fix it, but it would be good to know if there’s a way to tell when I need to clear some out.

I’ve had the game just over a week now and only started running into it in the last day or so; three times, in the following circumstances:

-Savior Schnapps save before attempting a bandit camp in “Ruin” and dying.

-Trying to finally figure out lock picking, using all my lock picks up and trying to manually reload my last (sleep) save to try again.

-Accidentally firing an an extra arrow down the archery range at the end of a contest and causing all of Rattay to freak the hell out. Manually reloaded my last (sleep) save.

It occurred to me that both times my sleep saves corrupted were from me trying to reload a save from the pause menu (maybe there’s a moral here about not trying to avoid the consequences of my actions) so I’m just wondering if there’s a pattern or if it’s just a coincidence.

Any thoughts or advice?

Thanks in advance.

I have an issue with loading when I overwrite files. So now I manually delete previous saves to make space and then save rather than overwriting.