Not syncing to 2nd PC

[santrealyste]

im playing on 2 PCs, both Win10. this is the gist:
- play on PC A, progress saves to cloud.
- try to play on PC B, does not wanna sync/get the files from cloud. so i manually download and put the latest save files onto PC B's saves folder.
- try again on PC B, save files work, so progress is continuous. progress saves to cloud.
- play next on PC A, syncs successfully. progress saves to cloud.
- repeat problem on PC B.

so basically, PC B doesn't wanna get the cloud saves. i dunno what part of the process has a problem. both Steam Clients have cloud sync enabled. firewall isn't blocking Steam nor The Witness. have unchecked Read Only on PC B's AppData folder where the saves are (which shouldn't really be necessary since i have no syncing problems with other games afaik).

help?
i will be able to just keep manually downloading the save files but would really love if i could make it work as it should. TIA~

edit: i will add the log file when i get home!

[MASTAN]

Check cloud_log.txt in Steam\logs\ folder on the PC B.

[santrealyste]

sorry took a while.
it's too long so just uploaded (to Plurk) and linked here:
https://paste.plurk.com/show/SMGWrD4351SxqvnDSYZe/

not sure if it would change the log but ive been playing on PC B only for a few days now.

[MASTAN]

That is game's log. Better check the file I mentioned above, Steam's cloud log.

[santrealyste]

oops sorry. here it is:
https://paste.plurk.com/show/dt2ZH85i2NebEgf5Vpuj/

[MASTAN]

Suspicious lines in the last log:

[2023-07-20 20:00:23] [AppID 210970] Need to download file The Witness/2023.07.18__time_00.27.27.png
[2023-07-20 20:00:23] [AppID 210970] Need to download file The Witness/2023.07.18__time_00.27.27.witness_campaign
[2023-07-20 20:00:23] [AppID 210970] Aborting download as directed because cloud files are from a later app build

Later app build? Do you have different game versions on your PCs? Maybe you opted into beta "future" branch on one of them.

[santrealyste]

Originally posted by MASTAN:

Suspicious lines in the last log:

[2023-07-20 20:00:23] [AppID 210970] Need to download file The Witness/2023.07.18__time_00.27.27.png
[2023-07-20 20:00:23] [AppID 210970] Need to download file The Witness/2023.07.18__time_00.27.27.witness_campaign
[2023-07-20 20:00:23] [AppID 210970] Aborting download as directed because cloud files are from a later app build

Later app build? Do you have different game versions on your PCs? Maybe you opted into beta "future" branch on one of them.

oooh hmm... imma check my versions later if they match. thank you!