Why is it so hard to delete cloud saved files?

[Ghost49X]

I've tried looking up online guides and none of them work...

[Bogmore]

It's easy, copy your saves to another location and delete them ingame.

Make sure you log out of the game properly and they should be gone.

[.Esík]

Because CDPR games have its own launcher and when you launch game trough steam it opens their launcher anyway and in that moment it stops steam cloud or do some thingy thing.

[Crimsomrider]

It's quite simple, here's what I do all the time so can guarantee it works;

• Go to C:\Users\---Your Windows Profile Name---\Saved Games\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077\
  
• Launch the game through Steam
  
• Once the Launcher is up, delete everything except steam_autocloud.vdf from the mentioned location
  
• Quit the launcher to let Steam Cloud wipe its data and your Steam Cloud for Cyberpunk will be wiped out

Also if you aren't playing the game on other platforms, go to Gameplay settings and uncheck the Cross-platform Saves feature. It serves no purpose to a lot of people since most only play the game on one platform.

[Ghost49X]

Originally posted by Crimsomrider:

• Once the Launcher is up, delete everything except steam_autocloud.vdf from the mentioned location

But I want to keep my local saves, will this screw me over?

[Crimsomrider]

Copy-paste the saves you wish to keep to your desktop, follow the procedure mentioned above and then put them back into the same folder after it's done.

But what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Because the only thing Steam Cloud backs up are the save files, along with the user.gls file which is used for autosaves. There's nothing else backed up, so you're trying to delete the exact same files you currently have on your system.

You can check your own Steam Cloud files by going to the following link;
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

[Silverbane7]

i think steam only gives users a certain amount of cloud save space, right?
so maybe the OP wants to remove the Cyberpunk cloud saves, to make space for other game cloud save data?

[Crimsomrider]

Nah, there is no overall Steam Cloud limit for a Steam account. The Steam Cloud limit only applies to each game individually and it's not even chosen by Valve, but rather the developers themselves.

That's why you see some indie games like Sifu (fantastic game) have a 100GB Cloud limit while its entire save folder is less than 800kb :D

In Cyberpunk's case the limit is 2GB, which is simply impossible to fill up since a fully filled up save folder takes around 200MB, give or take.

[Bogmore]

A save takes less than 10MB.

[s.turner3030]

Originally posted by Silverbane7:

i think steam only gives users a certain amount of cloud save space, right?
so maybe the OP wants to remove the Cyberpunk cloud saves, to make space for other game cloud save data?

For steam saves it used to be a set amount, and as you filled it the oldest ones would be deleted as new ones were added, it should still work that way, to be honest though the client should include a cloud save manager as standard, though they did finally add multi account settings in the client finally, so maybe we will get a cloud manager in another couple of years, maybe.