How to - Move your saves from Steam cloud to Grim Dawn's default location.

[Jaknet]

Glad as hell you have found them

As to how on earth they have ended up there... wonders of bloody modern technology

[Cheeseus Crust]

My HD recently crashed, so I needed to get a new one / fresh install. If I'm understanding this thread correctly then my 641 hours of characters and loot are gone?

[mamba]

Originally Posted by Cheeseus Crust

My HD recently crashed, so I needed to get a new one / fresh install. If I'm understanding this thread correctly then my 641 hours of characters and loot are gone?

hard to say, as you provide no information.

I assume you used local saves and made no backups, at which point this depends on whether you can still read from your HD. A crash does not necessarily mean that all data on it is lost.

[Cheeseus Crust]

Originally Posted by mamba

hard to say, as you provide no information.

I assume you used local saves and made no backups, at which point this depends on whether you can still read from your HD. A crash does not necessarily mean that all data on it is lost.

I am not certain. I have been playing GD since Beta on Steam.
Edit (That is to say I did not change the saving options or do any backing up period. Whatever it was before it was a real game is what I had)
The HD and all the information is sadly a write off.

The Cloud save referred to here is still technically local, isn't it?

[mamba]

Originally Posted by Cheeseus Crust

The Cloud save referred to here is still technically local, isn't it?

yes, the dir referred to here is local, but the same data also resides in the Steam cloud.

Basically the OP tells you how to move data to the local side of the cloud and that then gets replicated to the actual cloud from there. The Steam cloud and that dir should generally be in sync.

That also means your data should still reside in the cloud and get downloaded from there back on to your PC if you used cloud save.

Whether you did is a difficult question, the default setting changed at some point in time and is now the cloud I believe, so you might be lucky. Only one way to find out, get the new HD, install Steam and GD and hope for the best...

[Cheeseus Crust]

Originally Posted by mamba

Only one way to find out, get the new HD, install Steam and GD and hope for the best...

I have completed those steps. Initial loading of the game has no characters.

Going to the options tab, and choosing networks I have chosen "import data from cloud" and it seems to have done nothing.

At this point I will assume my too many hours are gone, but should I restart at this point it will start saving on the actual cloud?

[powbam]

Originally Posted by Cheeseus Crust

At this point I will assume my too many hours are gone, but should I restart at this point it will start saving on the actual cloud?

By default, yes. Or you can set it to save locally and make backups yourself if you don't trust Steam Cloud not to eat your saves, which does seem to happen to some people in a variety of games, likely due to network hiccups imo.

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[tsuelue]

Originally Posted by powbam

By default, yes. Or you can set it to save locally and make backups yourself if you don't trust Steam Cloud not to eat your saves, which does seem to happen to some people in a variety of games, likely due to network hiccups imo.

This. I don´t understand how people who invest hundreds or thousands of hours in the game don´t backup manually. Why not take a few minutes now and then and make a manual backup, zip it and send it to your email account?

Be more paranoid, please.

[slick4hire]

I am wanting to start using the inventory manager, so I need to change from cloud save to local save. The saves are not showing up now. I have done the following:

*Unchecked "enable Steam cloud synchronization" in Steam

*Unchecked "cloud saving" in GD options

*Copied and pasted C:/Program Files (X86)/Steam/Userdata/Randomnumber/Randomnumber/Remote/Save to desktop for backup, just in case

*Cut and pasted same "save" folder to Documents/My Games/Grim Dawn

*Restarted computer

The saves did not show up.



From there, I moved the save folder from My Games/Grim Dawn, then downloaded the saves from Steam cloud in GD. The folder downloaded without issue, and appears exactly the same as the one I had just pasted.

The saves are still not showing up.

Just to troubleshoot, I put the saves back in the steam cloud default location, and the game did not see them. After checking "enable cloud" in GD again, the saves did appear.

So it looks like the non-cloud game default location and the save folder location are not the same.

What am I missing? Thanks in advance.

[Jaknet]

This is more of a "I've read your post and will think on it"...than how to fix at this moment as I've had visitors with bottles of wine, so I know I'm missing something obvious, just cannot see it.


Just brief thoughts, the 2nd set of numbers isn't random it's always the one in the first post (2199...whatever), the 1st number is tied direct to your account, so keep that number private.



In the save folder you should have a folder \Main and inside that should be all the folders for your chars titled "_charname" as long as you have \Documents\my games\Grim Dawn\save\main with your char folders in that \Main folder and in GD settings Cloud saving unticked then your chars should show in game.


p.s. Welcome to the forums and sorry it's not on a happier note, but will get your saves sorted....he says hopefully