Cloud save gone, local save last_save.ck3 working, but not saving game! Any advice pls?

[Pepa N.O.S]

Hi,
so, just wanna know, If someone have had same problem and maybe find solution.
I´ve playe game for several months. Some mods, but no problems even during updates. So far so good, but on 26.12., when I quit my Ironman play (usualy quit to main menu) something happend, in menu, there was other character. When I tried to play again, even when I had an option to resume my play, I did not load last cloud save. Just some old from 2022. So, I´ve tried everything, to summ it:
- on steam cloud storage, any save file from my 2023 Ironman is not there
- on cloud, there are only obsolete saves
- in Paradox-Documents- I´ve found last_save.ck3. Made save games folder, copy this save and disable cloud sync.
- I was able to start my game (very happy) only to find out, that autosave not working and even save during exit (normal process, save icon spinning) did not update that last_save.ck3 file (very sad), so on next run, It put me again in same date.
- steam support still try to direct me to cloud storage (don´t know why, cause I literally told asked them twice to find out why and where to is my ironman save file was deleted

So, I have several options.
TO STOP playing this ratchett addictive game - but this run, this run is so good, that I have to simply finish it.
There is 300years yet to play. I would have to play on fastest speed and with no option to save game, so like a speed up marathon.
OR

Anyone will try to help me to find out:
How to upload my last_save.ck3 file to cloud
OR
How to make it save able file to use it as normal local save. It is working, I can play and all, but I just am not able to save. (FYI, if I start new ironman play, it is normaly saving and continuing as usual)

What could be wrong with that file (it has 100mb, so it is a lot bigger, than other save files or other last_save.ck3 file).

Thank you guys for any advice or tip. I am really hart broken :D
BR

[Cesar Vialpando]

Encountered the same issue, did you find a solution?

[Rabblevox]

I can't help with recovering your save, hopefully someone else can.

But going forward, 2 hard-core rules for digital gaming.

1: Never depend on cloud saves. If it's important to you, save it on your local drive. Remember, there is really no such thing as the cloud. It's warehouses of servers in Texas and Kenya and Vietnam. And they all fail sometime. Nothing important should EVAR be trusted to "the cloud".

2: Lock your games down. Especially turn off auto-update. That is the game-killer. Only install updates or DLC if they've been out for a week or more and you've done your due diligence.

[Astoria Unknown]

A year later, exact same problem, no solution :(

[jpcerutti]

Originally posted by Astoria Unknown:

A year later, exact same problem, no solution :(

Cloud saves are a Steam issue. Try contacting Steam Support. They also do not tell you but there's a limit on cloud file size - which is usually not an issue but if you are running poorly coded mods...