Lost all save files

[TinfoilBuddha]

PC user here and new to game (playing ~1 week).

I played earlier today but when I load in now, I have no saved games. Load Game is grayed out and hover over text is "You do not have a valid single player save".

Only notable stuff I can think of:
I picked up an update earlier, but it worked when I played just after.

When it stopped working, I was asked language/default region again and that's probably related.



Any advice?

[⎝Wyrd Deofol⎠]

Verify files? Cloud saves? Gamepass? Latest updates applied?

I found this on a Microsoft Forum:

- So I copied the CONTENTS of the (some very long ID)-folder with saves and options.ini, game.log etc to another location as a backup
- Started the game -> no help

- I started a new game and saved
- I restarted the game and the ABOVE save works (but not the one I'm missing)

- The previous location (xgs-folder) did NOT have any new contents -> it's empty

- Then I was about to copy the previously backupped save files back to the (some very long ID)-folder to see if these would work now... but I noticed that there is a xbl.log -file; I opened it and heureka.

- It refers to a completely new location: [XBL] [LOGFILE] Set to C:\Users\<your WIN user>\AppData\Roaming\Dune - Spice Wars\xbl.log

- In THIS folder, you've another XGS-folder with saves!

= COPY YOUR .SAV FILES TO ABOVE FOLDER!

- I recopied the contents that I had backuped to the folder

[⎝Wyrd Deofol⎠]

= COPY YOUR .SAV FILES + FOLDER CONTENTS FROM %LocalAppData%\Packages\FuncomOsloAS.DuneSpiceWars_pkaskhy6cdq4g\SystemAppData\xgs\<some very long id-folder>\

TO

C:\Users\<your WIN user>\AppData\Roaming\Dune - Spice Wars\

- Be sure to enable HIDDEN files -visibility to access the see the AppData-folder with your File Explorer

[TinfoilBuddha]

Thank that worked!!! Thank you Apostate

One note for posterity is AppData directory is hidden by default so if someone can't find it turn on hidden files/dire9ctories...

If you still don't have it (or it lives somewhere else). Get into a game and save the file to some name, dunesavefile, then search your entire PC for that filename and drop all the old save game files there..

[⎝Wyrd Deofol⎠]

Fantastic! Glad to be of help. Concerning the hidden Appdata. I mention this in my second message. ;) Happy gaming!