Hi im new and having issues with livesplit understanding how it works how to make and save different games or level runs without overwriting times or deleting them as i have. any tips guides where to point ive watched the basic one on youtube thats like 13 mins still issues.

im new too and i realized that i was saving and opening "splits" instead of "layouts" so that may help

The video in the livesplit site should help for starting: https://livesplit.org/introduction . The 13-minute video you watched is probably the one by SmallAnt, which is more focused on setting livesplit inside OBS.

If you have more issues that are not covered in the videos, try to ask specific questions for better help.