Lost my savefile after uninstalling the game

[didimaox]

Hi
After uninstalling the game to get space on my hard drive, i discovered with horror that my save file was gone...
I have steam cloud disabled for specific reasons ( for example, when i want to switch between saves quickly locally without the cloud save taking precedent over it when playing other games)
Is there something i am missing or is it really over?
Why would steam delete save files when uninstalling anyways?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by didimaox:

Lost my savefile after uninstalling the game
Hi
After uninstalling the game to get space on my hard drive, i discovered with horror that my save file was gone...
I have steam cloud disabled for specific reasons ( for example, when i want to switch between saves quickly locally without the cloud save taking precedent over it when playing other games)
Is there something i am missing or is it really over?
Why would steam delete save files when uninstalling anyways?

There is no other way but to restart.

Steam does not delete savegames when uninstalling. Ever.

There is a very good publicly available script which makes automatically a backup copy of your game when you start the game. You can and should use that in the future if you do not want to manually backup.

[didimaox]

I do manually back up my save, i have a semi-recent one for wilds so it's not the end of the world for me, but i do want to understand WHY i lost my save when uninstalling, because it doesn't make sense to me.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by didimaox:

I do manually back up my save, i have a semi-recent one for wilds so it's not the end of the world for me, but i do want to understand WHY i lost my save when uninstalling, because it doesn't make sense to me.

I just have a suspicion, but I am lacking information about your PC.

I tested it myself: uninstalled the game and see what happens with the savegame. For me it remained where it is untouched.

[Krowle]

Just add for some insight info. **(Since most User keep both Steam client and game inside the same folder)
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I have main Steam client install at C:/Steam/ while my main of all of my game install in D:/Steam/

Doesn't matter I wreck upon D: game drive nor uninstall the game, the save data is remain intact on C: which is inside userdata. Uninstall the game won't affect your userdata in Steam client folder.

MHWild by default setting doesn't keep your savegame data inside where your Game installation folder is. It is located where you Install your Steam client folder.

Note :
Check App permission or Mod(if you use any)

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For reference, my account have enough permission, doesn't need to run as admin on Steam client nor the game itself. It doesn't need permission to read/write on specific folder.
I do run the game completely vanilla and no mod.