Can't save or delete saves...?

[Rabcor]

Just coming back now, want to finally finish this game before moving on to 2 and 3. I have 3 saves one of which I want to keep, 2 I would like to just erase.

So i delete the two saves I want to erase, start a new game. Get to first bonfire, quit game, start game again and everything is back to the way it was when I first started it (e.g. I get the deleted saves back, lose my new character)

What do I do?

Solution:

Originally posted by Riful:

Solved it! I da man!

I disabled cloud syncing, started the game, deleted the two saves I wanted to get rid of (This creates an inconsistency between my local save file, and the save file on the cloud) then I enabled cloud syncing again, and steam automatically (I don't like that it doesn't ask...) detected this file conflict, and opted to favor my local save file over the cloud file.

After this it seems to respect my saves.

However... I have some extra files in the save directory (file backups) and I can not find any way to delete them from the cloud. But at least my game works now, yay.

[Matheus McNeil]

Maybe Steam is replacing your local save with the ones saved on cloud.

[Rabcor]

Originally posted by Matheus McNeil:

Maybe Steam is replacing your local save with the ones saved on cloud.

Seems like it's something like that yeah, but what can I do about it? Seems like it's not synching to the cloud, only from the cloud...

[Matheus McNeil]

If you don't mind using your local files only disable steam cloud for Dark Souls.
library > Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition > properties > updates

[Rabcor]

Originally posted by Matheus McNeil:

If you don't mind using your local files only disable steam cloud for Dark Souls.
library > Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition > properties > updates

I'd rather be able to have a backup of my files on the steam cloud.

[Rabcor]

Solved it! I da man!

I disabled cloud syncing, started the game, deleted the two saves I wanted to get rid of (This creates an inconsistency between my local save file, and the save file on the cloud) then I enabled cloud syncing again, and steam automatically (I don't like that it doesn't ask...) detected this file conflict, and opted to favor my local save file over the cloud file.

After this it seems to respect my saves.

However... I have some extra files in the save directory (file backups) and I can not find any way to delete them from the cloud. But at least my game works now, yay.

[Gillis785]

Also check if your anti-virus is blocking the application from accessing that folder if so enable application in your anti-virus. This was the case for me with Bitdefender.