Confirmation prompt for removing proton files

[𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣]

Please add this, I wanted to remove a game from playlist but ended up removing a save of a game I've played dozens of hours in offline mode by accident.

PLEASE DO THIS

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Ruined the whole weekend, I'm not coming back to that, please add a warning

[Minneyar]

Which game is this? Removing Proton's files shouldn't delete your save game. If it does, the developer probably isn't managing their files properly.

[SillyWalk]

Originally posted by Minneyar:

Which game is this? Removing Proton's files shouldn't delete your save game. If it does, the developer probably isn't managing their files properly.

What do you mean? From what I know, "proton files" refers to, basically, "emulated" virtual Windows filesystems which the game ran through proton uses, so it stores things like the savefiles, logs, the directx/.net dependencies installed if there are any, and so on. Being that the case, deleting the proton files would also delete the saves unless the game has Steam Cloud and it's online at some point so they can be synced beforehand (and OP was offline).

Every game without Steam Cloud that I remember deleting the proton files started from scratch after doing so.