No cloud save?

[Bagheadt]

I'm someone who uninstalls games pretty often, but i would really like to keep my save. Is there any way to save it in the cloud?

[Lady Aeleanor]

I wouldn't. OneDrive, for example, can cause lots of problems. The best method by far, is to use a USB stick and copy Saves, Tray and Mods (if used) to the USB on a regular basis. Note that you MUST save the Tray folder, as well as the Save folder. A save game is useless without the Tray data.

[Bagheadt]

Originally posted by Lady Aeleanor:

I wouldn't. OneDrive, for example, can cause lots of problems. The best method by far, is to use a USB stick and copy Saves, Tray and Mods (if used) to the USB on a regular basis. Note that you MUST save the Tray folder, as well as the Save folder. A save game is useless without the Tray data.

How does a game like this, that has so much to it, not have cloud save? Thanks for answering, i'll just save it to a USB stick i guess.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Baghead:

How does a game like this, that has so much to it, not have cloud save? Thanks for answering, i'll just save it to a USB stick i guess.

Well, to be clear - it does. The Steam Cloud can be used. But, I still think a USB stick is a FAR better, safer and more dependable option.

[Bagheadt]

Originally posted by Lady Aeleanor:

Originally posted by Baghead:

How does a game like this, that has so much to it, not have cloud save? Thanks for answering, i'll just save it to a USB stick i guess.

Well, to be clear - it does. The Steam Cloud can be used. But, I still think a USB stick is a FAR better, safer and more dependable option.

It says the game doesn't support Steam cloud

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Baghead:

It says the game doesn't support Steam cloud

Ok. Then your best and only option is the USB stick.

[Jack Schitt]

I lose USB sticks. I'm never able to keep track of them. Other options are:

- Google Drive
In my opinion this is our best option. It's free and Google probably isn't going anywhere in our life time even for those of us who play The Sims 4 that are in our early teens.

- Free web hosting that has a good history like infinityfree.com
I've personally been using infinityfree for hosting test websites I'm building and sharing files I can't share elsewhere (size limits or a forum doesn't allow an image host I use for example). We can use it to store any file format, it's not required to use it to host a website.

- An external drive
I've had an SSD external drive for about 10 years now, haven't lost it.
This is lower down in my suggestions because it can be an expensive option. Decent external drives that will be enough space for saved game files can be gotten for $20 USD. Search amazon. They're easier to keep track of than USB sticks :P

[Bagheadt]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

I lose USB sticks. I'm never able to keep track of them. Other options are:

- Google Drive
In my opinion this is our best option. It's free and Google probably isn't going anywhere in our life time even for those of us who play The Sims 4 that are in our early teens.

- Free web hosting that has a good history like infinityfree.com
I've personally been using infinityfree for hosting test websites I'm building and sharing files I can't share elsewhere (size limits or a forum doesn't allow an image host I use for example). We can use it to store any file format, it's not required to use it to host a website.

- An external drive
I've had an SSD external drive for about 10 years now, haven't lost it.
This is lower down in my suggestions because it can be an expensive option. Decent external drives that will be enough space for saved game files can be gotten for $20 USD. Search amazon. They're easier to keep track of than USB sticks :P

Well, it's a lot of work for nothing. Having to keep overriding your own manually saved file in the cloud? Or put it on a USB stick like we're living in the stone ages of technology? Just makes it not worth playing in my opinion, only if you never uninstall this game lol.

[Jack Schitt]

Optionally we can leave a USB stick plugged in, make it bootable, and remap the game's file directory to read and save our saved game files and mods from there. Some ('better') external drives automatically allow games and programs to run from them out of the box when we get them. A lot of the cheaper external drives don't do that, they're just storage.

That's work too making a flash drive do that but once it's done it's done. You wouldn't have to keep doing it. The game files would run from there.

Another thing you can do is set up a tiny little program called a batch file in notepad that will copy your saved games (and whatever else you want) to a flash drive. You'd just have to run the batch file now and then when you want to make a backup.

If you're interested in either of those options I'll be glad to share how to. Let me know.