Where is the Just Cause 3 save file located?

[Nous]

My parents are divorced which means I have 2 computers, one for each house. I was playing just cause at my dad's house and I have made a lot of progress in the game. I don't want to lose all that progress at my mom's house. I need to know where the save file is located so I can transfer it between two computers. If there is a easier or better way to transfer just cause 3 saves between computers please let me know.

[BIG SHAQ 👑]

\Documents\Square Enix\Just Cause 3\Saves

[Nous]

Originally posted by Derp ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°):

\Documents\Square Enix\Just Cause 3\Saves

Thanks so much man

[m-p{3}]

If you want to always have them in sync, you can use a combination of Google Drive and what's called a junction between two folders.

1) Install Google Drive on your current Windows account on both computers
2) Create a folder called Games within your Google Drive folder (could be called anything else, but my example will use this folder)
3) Inside that, copy the Just Cause 3 folder from \Documents\Square Enix\Just Cause 3 into it (ie: Google Drive\Games\Just Cause 3)
3) Rename the Just Cause 3folder in i]\Documents\Square Enix[/i] to Just Cause 3_OLD (just a precaution, to ensure you don't lose your savegames during these steps because of a mistake).
4) use the following command to create a junction using the command prompt utility (Command Prompt (Admin)) :

MKLINK /D "%userprofile%\Documents\Square Enix\Just Cause 3" "%userprofile%\Google Drive\Games\Just Cause 3"

Now you should see a folder called Just Cause 3 in \Documents\Square Enix, along with the Just Cause 3_OLD folder.

Right now, any changes made to \Documents\Square Enix\Just Cause 3 will actually be made in Google Drive. Proceed with the same steps on the other computers, and you'll have the game saves automatically synced between multiple computers!

[mluthanen]

Rats. I assumed Steam kept progress for me like many other games, so when I nuked my hard drive and reinstalled everything, I seem to have lost all my progress. Ah, well. It won't be the first time I've played halfway though a game, then had to start over because I was a bonehead.

[RestlessBear]

Originally posted by mluthanen:

Rats. I assumed Steam kept progress for me like many other games, so when I nuked my hard drive and reinstalled everything, I seem to have lost all my progress. Ah, well. It won't be the first time I've played halfway though a game, then had to start over because I was a bonehead.

Eh, the same just happened to be. Sadly I had both my primary and secondary harddrives go within the same week. Sigh, first time a harddrive had ever died on me in 20 years before I replaced the computer.

[mluthanen]

Originally posted by kujospam:

Originally posted by mluthanen:

Rats. I assumed Steam kept progress for me like many other games, so when I nuked my hard drive and reinstalled everything, I seem to have lost all my progress. Ah, well. It won't be the first time I've played halfway though a game, then had to start over because I was a bonehead.

Eh, the same just happened to be. Sadly I had both my primary and secondary harddrives go within the same week. Sigh, first time a harddrive had ever died on me in 20 years before I replaced the computer.

It's worse -- my drives didn't fail, Windows just stopped behaving normally. I was able to copy my Downloads, etc to my secondary drive but I didn't think to copy my save game folders before I reached for the Windows DVD. There's probably a lesson there...

[Joe Momma]

Thank You very much. You saved my butt!

Just Cause 3 is my favorite game and I wiped my save by accident today. I tried restoring my C:/ but that didn't work because my Documents are on D:/. After I read this thread, I restored only the files I needed from E:/Backup and I am back where I left off, liberating the people of Medeci.

[Dusey]

Originally posted by mluthanen:

Originally posted by kujospam:

Eh, the same just happened to be. Sadly I had both my primary and secondary harddrives go within the same week. Sigh, first time a harddrive had ever died on me in 20 years before I replaced the computer.

It's worse -- my drives didn't fail, Windows just stopped behaving normally. I was able to copy my Downloads, etc to my secondary drive but I didn't think to copy my save game folders before I reached for the Windows DVD. There's probably a lesson there...

If your Documents folder is amoung the things you copied before nuking the HD then you should have your JC3 saves.

[sus bed stain]

It isnt in my documents? Pls help.

[Emongaru]

I just finished the game and when I came back it had reset. Is there a way I can fix this? We have searched the game files but haven't really found any evidence that I have even played it. I also can't find the Square enix folder, Possibly cause it's Family shared.

[Runelsted]

Originally posted by m-p{3}:

If you want to always have them in sync, you can use a combination of Google Drive and what's called a junction between two folders.

1) Install Google Drive on your current Windows account on both computers
2) Create a folder called Games within your Google Drive folder (could be called anything else, but my example will use this folder)
3) Inside that, copy the Just Cause 3 folder from \Documents\Square Enix\Just Cause 3 into it (ie: Google Drive\Games\Just Cause 3)
3) Rename the Just Cause 3folder in i]\Documents\Square Enix[/i] to Just Cause 3_OLD (just a precaution, to ensure you don't lose your savegames during these steps because of a mistake).
4) use the following command to create a junction using the command prompt utility (Command Prompt (Admin)) :

MKLINK /D "%userprofile%\Documents\Square Enix\Just Cause 3" "%userprofile%\Google Drive\Games\Just Cause 3"

Now you should see a folder called Just Cause 3 in \Documents\Square Enix, along with the Just Cause 3_OLD folder.

Right now, any changes made to \Documents\Square Enix\Just Cause 3 will actually be made in Google Drive. Proceed with the same steps on the other computers, and you'll have the game saves automatically synced between multiple computers!

It does not work for me how do i undo?

[Luftwaffle]

What I did was just modify all of the files in the saves folder in docs to have the same date. what I did was use text editor or the typing equivalent to modify each one. I typed " " or spacebar before the untranslatable text, then deleted the "space" exited and saved, did this for all of my files then entered the game and it started saving once more . I also made steam (just the steam app and NOT, NOT JUST CAUSE) to admin and this seemed to work. I think this made my pc go: "Oh look, sum files are new, lets use em,' "

[tenkday]

This is old info, the saves are in OneDrive now found here:

C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive\Documents\Square Enix

[upcoast]

Originally posted by tenkday:

This is old info, the saves are in OneDrive now found here:

C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive\Documents\Square Enix

Only if you tell it to, I don't use onedrive so it's not in there,lol..

[tenkday]

Originally posted by upcoast:

Originally posted by tenkday:

This is old info, the saves are in OneDrive now found here:

C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive\Documents\Square Enix

Only if you tell it to, I don't use onedrive so it's not in there,lol..

Actually no, I had nothing to do with that decision. Had to reinstall Windows, then reinstalled steam and JC3. JC3 started a different save directory in OneDrive whereas on the previous install it was in the normal documents folder. I wanted to share this in case anyone else was running into issues importing old saves. It's a perfectly legit solution that may help some people.

Just because you don't use OneDrive, whatever that means, doesn't mean JC3 won't be creating save directories there on other peoples computers.

You might even thank me for this someday if you have to reinstall Windows.