I'm afraid I don't use Retroarch post 1.3.3 so am not familiar with the new folder structure, but I'm surprised to read that it doesn't seem read save files.
I would double check that I haven't confused save files with save state files (both types of these are in their own dedicated folders by default in the older Retroarch builds).
yea its weird .... the save files it created ended up in the correct folders but when i replaced them with the ones i had already it was as if they dident exist so im wondering if there is maby a diffrent data format or somthing inside the file itself beyond the file extension thats causing the issue