So at first I thought the editor was not properly saving the changes to my character file but after a bit of digging I noticed a funny quirk, I checked the edit times of the copy of the save in my save folder and the copy I made as a backup to the desktop and low and behold...
The desktop copy was the one being edited
Maybe this explains why some people are finding the editor is not working, its working just only on the backup as it's going to the desktop first instead of the files in the save folder.